Mount Washington Hotel
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The Mount Washington Hotel
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| Nearest city | Bretton Woods, New Hampshire |
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| Coordinates | 44°15′29″N 71°26′25″W / 44.25806°N 71.44028°WCoordinates: 44°15′29″N 71°26′25″W / 44.25806°N 71.44028°W |
| Built | 1900-1902 |
| Architect | Charles Alling Gifford, et al. |
| Architectural style | Renaissance Revival, other |
| NRHP Reference # | 78000213 |
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| Added to NRHP | September 27, 1978 |
| Designated NHL | June 24, 1986 |
The Mount Washington Hotel is a hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, near Mount Washington. It was designed by Charles Alling Gifford.
The area, part of the town of Carroll, New Hampshire, includes the Bretton Woods ski resort nearby. It is located at the northern end of Crawford Notch, 6 miles (10 km) east of the village of Twin Mountain along U.S. Route 302.
In December 2015, the hotel was purchased by Omni Mount Washington LLC from the CNL Financial Group, of Orlando, Florida, and will continue to be operated by Omni Hotels & Resorts under the official name of Omni Mount Washington Resort. It is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The hotel was constructed at a cost of $1.7 million ($44.6 million in 2012 dollars) by Joseph Stickney, a native of Waltham, Massachusetts, who had made a fortune before the age of 30 as a coal broker in Pennsylvania. In 1881 Stickney and his partner, John N. Conyngham, had purchased the Mount Pleasant Hotel nearby from lumberman John T.G. Leavitt, a large early hotel that was later demolished. Subsequently, Stickney began work on his Mount Washington Hotel. He brought in 250 Italian artisans to build it, particularly the granite and stucco masonry. Construction started in 1900 on the Y-shaped hotel, which opened on July 28, 1902. At the opening ceremony, Stickney told the audience, "Look at me, gentlemen ... for I am the poor fool who built all this!" Within a year he was dead at the age of 64.
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