Canfield Casino and Congress Park cover 17 acres that made Saratoga Springs internationally famous as a health spa and gambling site. Once the location of the Congress Hotel — also called Congress Hall — the Congress Spring Bottling Plant and the Canfield Casino, this place made Saratoga Springs internationally famous as a health spa and gambling site. At the peak of its popularity the wealthy, major gamblers and stars of the entertainment world mingled here.
The park you stand in contains artwork including a statue by Daniel Chester French and landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted, among others. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 as the Casino-Congress Park-Circular Street Historic District and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987; a later listing excluded some property outside the park and halved the overall size of the district. The Canfield Casino buildings, built in 1870, 1871 and 1902–03, now house the Saratoga Springs History Museum, an art gallery, and spaces that host public and private events.
Notice the statue by Daniel Chester French and the landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted, bounded by Broadway, Spring Street, and Circular Street.