Mount Washington Hotel
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| location | Carroll , Coös County , New Hampshire , | ||
| Coordinates | 44 ° 15 '26 " N , 71 ° 26' 22" W | ||
| Built | 1902 | ||
| architect | Charles Alling Gifford | ||
| NRHP number | 78000213 | ||
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| The NRHP added | September 27, 1978 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | June 24, 1986 | ||
The Mount Washington Hotel opened in 1902 and is located in Bretton Woods , a part of the Carroll community in New Hampshire , at the foot of the White Mountains . The Bretton Woods Conference took place here in 1944 . The Mount Washington Hotel was recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1986 and is now officially known as the Omni Mount Washington Resort .
history
The construction of the hotel with 352 rooms took two years and was carried out by 250 masters from Italy , among others . The accommodations in which they were accommodated have been preserved to this day, although they are no longer in use. The builder was the industrialist Joseph Stickney, who had owned the Mount Pleasant Hotel in the immediate vicinity since 1881, and the architect Charles Alling Gifford. The first guests were received on July 28, 1902, the official opening ball, which the Governor of New Hampshire also attended, followed three days later. Joseph Stickney died soon thereafter in December 1903. His wife, Carolyn Stickney, was the chief heir to both the Mount Pleasant and Mount Washington Hotels until her death in November 1936. Her nephew, Foster Reynolds, then took over the management of both houses. Three years later he had the Mount Pleasant demolished due to a lack of profitability, but kept the Mount Washington Hotel for the time being.
Until 1944, the hotel refused to accept Jewish guests, a phenomenon known as resort antisemitism .
Because of the isolated location and size of the facility, the Bretton Woods Conference, from which the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund emerged, met here from July 1 to 22, 1944. 733 delegates from 44 countries attended the conference. The federal government paid for the renovation work carried out shortly before .
On September 27, 1978, the Mount Washington Hotel on US Highway 302 was added to the National Register of Historic Places and on June 24, 1986 it was declared a National Historic Landmark.
architecture
With 352 rooms, it was the largest spa in the White Mountains when it opened and had a high level of comfort for the time, including its own train station and electricity system, which is still in operation today, running water, elevator, telephone and telegraph connection , Golf course, large car garage and a heated swimming pool. Until 1999 it was closed for the winter season and only open in summer and early fall.
The Mount Washington Hotel, built in the style of the Spanish Renaissance , has a Y-shape, two octagonal , five-storey and 34 m high towers and reaches a maximum length of almost 250 m. The wing of the building extending from the southern tower runs in the same line as the main part, which is a little over 20 m high, while the other two wings, namely the north-western and the north-eastern, form the characteristic Y-shape. A semicircular car driveway is built in front of the western entrance to the two-story auditorium. This room is designed in the style of the French Renaissance with a large stone fireplace and two colonnades in the longitudinal direction of the auditorium. The foundation is made of gray granite, which comes from the surrounding area, and was mainly built by the Italian master craftsmen. The frame structure is made of wood and is one of the largest of its kind in New England.
See also
Web links
- Omni Mount Washington Resort. In: Official website of the hotel chain. Omni Hotels ( memento of July 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), archived from the original on July 13, 2014 ; Retrieved July 28, 2011 (English).
- Randall E. Spalding: The Grand Hotels, The Glory and the Conflagration. (PDF 4.8 MB) In: Official website. WhiteMountainHistory.org , accessed August 17, 2011 (original article published in Outlook Magazine).
- Mount Washington Hotel. In: Official website. WhiteMountainHistory.org , accessed August 17, 2011 .
- Jess Stryker: Mount Washington Hotel Virtual Tour. In: Historic Hotels & Lodges . July 9, 2007, accessed August 17, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Mount Washington Hotel. (No longer available online.) In: National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL). National Park Service, archived from the original on June 6, 2011 ; Retrieved July 28, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Mount Washington Hotel. In: Official website. WhiteMountainHistory.org , accessed August 17, 2011 .
- ↑ Rye Reflections ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed April 13, 2016
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: New Hampshire. National Park Service , accessed August 17, 2019.
- ^ Ron King, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests: Mount Washington Hotel. In: National Register of Historic Places Inventory: Nomination Form. National Park Service , August 30, 1977, p. 2 , accessed August 16, 2011 (English, PDF 725KB).
