Sweeny Manuscript Archive, which is a major repository in Saratoga Springs for business and personal papers and ephemera relating to the grand hotels, spas, casinos and lake houses, and businesses. In the next couple of decades, many large tea parties were held here, and the City currently rents out the Casino for weddings and other big events. In 1911, the City opened it up as a place for drinking spring water, playing games (no gambling), smoking, and reading. In 1902 Canfield bought up much of the property to the north and east of the building to create the Italian Gardens, and in 1903 he built on the magnificent dining room that features stained-glass signs of the zodiac in a vaulted ceiling.

In 1894 it was bought by Richard Canfield, who in 1895 added the Tiffany window in the west wall of the first floor. After Morrissey’s death in 1878, the building was owned by Charles Reed and Albert Spencer and became known as the Saratoga Club-House. Morrissey’s Club House (as it was then known) quickly became a popular but exclusive gaming establishment-neither women nor locals were permitted in the gambling rooms. The Casino was built in 1870 by John Morrissey, a retired prize fighter and politician raised in Troy. October - May Wednesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Hours: June-September Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Teaching The Hudson River Valley Review.Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial.

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