"We call it a Victorian treasure re-
imagined for the 21st century," said
Michel Ducamp, the chief operating
officer of Richbell's Adelphi Hospi-
tality Group. "Glen took the inspira-
tion for the Victorian hotel and re-
imagined it in a modern, 21st-century
style. It sort of has this transitional,
back and forth between traditional
Victorian look and feel and very ul-
tra-modern appearance, as well as ul-
tra-modern facilities."
When McCaffery built the Adelphi
at a location across from from Phi-
la Street's intersection with Broad-
way - the site for 50 years already
of a hotel, the Old Adelphia, best
known as drinking establishment -
Saratoga Springs was a wide-open
town that drew visitors with miner-
al water, gambling and horse racing.
It was a favorite of the high-society
moneyed class on down to the ne'er-
do-wells who made their way to the
"Queen of Spas." Gaming had been
in place in Saratoga since the 1840s
and street thug-Tammany Hall en-
forcer-boxer-gambler-politician-en-
trepreneur John Morrissey took it to
new heights, or depths. He opened
his first gambling house in Saratoga
in 1862 and organized the Sarato-
ga-changing race meet the following
summer. Morrissey was a regular at
the Adelphi and died there at the age
of 47 on May 1, 1878.
Saratoga Race Course, constructed
by Morrissey and partners in 1864 on
