It's another beautiful day and we are off to the White Mountains to soak in some more color. First stop is in North Conway and Lutheran Church of the Nativity. The Lutherans bought the building from the Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic parish. We saw the Catholics new building on our way to the Mt. Washington Hotel.
We drove this way in June when we took the cog railway up Mt. Washington. (You can see Mt. Washington in the background of the picture of the hotel.) We thought this would be a good place to see color and have lunch. We drove through Franconia otch, a major pass through the White Mountains, and on to the hotel.
The Mt. Washington Hotel was built by Joseph Stickney, a New Hampshire native who made his fortune in the coal and railroad industries. It opened in 1902 and is the largest wooden structure in New England, although built with a steel infrastructure, unique in those days. Guests arrived by train from Boston and Portland. The Hotel's place in history is as the site of the Bretton Woods International Monetary Conference in 1944 where the World Bank was established.
The hotel was a summer resort until 1999 when $3.5 million was spent on a winterization project. Now they stay busy as a ski resort in the winter.
We had lunch, enjoyed the view, strolled the 903 foot veranda, and drove back south, stopping, along with several others, to take photos of purple flowers and butterflies.
Another beautiful day in New England.
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