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cheap hotel in SyracuseThe Three Mountain Inn's main building is a circa 1790 Colonial with 12 over 12 windows, hand-shaven wooden clapboards, trim corner boards and a massive center chimney containing five fireplaces and two beehive ovens which are still used to this day. The main Inn also boasts a very authentic "Keeping Room" with hand planed 21" and 22" wide vertical pine paneling known as "King's Wood." (Boards of this width were supposed to be reserved for the King, but were often found displayed prominently in the homes of rebellious Colonists.) The original builders' confidence and enthusiasm for the future of their new country is evident everywhere in their construction techniques including the use of thick cherry planks nailed vertically to the massive, hand hewn post & beam frame to create walls strong enough to endure the test of time and the elements. Similarly, the center chimney construction is simply masterful.
Leuven hotelsThe main Inn building was originally part of a 135 acre farm. One of the first owners of the property was John Sumner, who was appointed Postmaster in 1822 and operated the town's first post office and overnight stage coach stop for the thrice weekly stagecoach which stopped overnight in Jamaica, midway on the 45 mile ride between Brattleboro and Manchester. In February of 1828, Sumner sold the property to Benjamin Felton who replaced him as Postmaster. Benjamin Muzzy, whose descendants owned the Jamaica Country Store until just recently, purchased the property in 1839. During the 36 years that Muzzy and his family lived in the Three Mountain Inn, Jamaica, along with many other Vermont farming villages, experienced the peak of prosperity fueled by the generous profits from the wool of Merino sheep. The late 1830's had cleared many of the hills and mountains around Jamaica cleared almost to their summits for grazing sheep.
By the 1860's the competition from rich western farmlands, now capable of transporting their agricultural products easily to eastern markets by the new railroads, made life more difficult in the hills of Vermont. Combined with the falling wool prices that followed the expansion of Australian wool production, poverty became a major problem. In 1875, Benjamin Muzzy turned all his properties over to a trust. His home, now the Three Mountain Inn, was sold by the trust to Almon Clayton, who six years later sold to Henry J. Sage.
Sage was a "well to do" farmer and lumberman and owned the farm with his wife for almost 30 years. The Sages updated the appearance of their homestead by building a fashionable open porch around the front and west side and lowered the first story windows by a foot to get more light into the front rooms.
Henry's Sage's widow sold the farm in 1917 to a New York based real estate company. By the mid-1930's, the building was converted into a boarding house catering to summer visitors and named the "White Swan," but locally nicknamed the "Dirty Duck." Renamed the "Jamaica Inn," the building was again renovated in the late 1940's. The front porch was removed and in 1951 the original barns from the Inn's days as a farm burned.
ERROR MSGIn the early 1960's, the Inn was owned by Frank Snyder, the founder of Stratton Mountain Resort. Snyder used the Inn as his base of operations to develop Stratton Mountain into one of the East's finest resorts. Many of the original stockholders met around the Keeping Room fireplace during those years including Dr. Carl Otis, "Tink" Smith, Senator Janeway and numerous other dignitaries.
The most recent owners, Charles and Elaine Murray, purchased the Inn in 1978 and operated and expanded the business taking the Inn from its original 7 rooms to the 15 rooms presently in operation. In 1986 they purchased the historic Robinson House next door and added an additional 5 guest rooms to the Inn. In back of the Robinson House they also converted an older garage into a Meeting Room for small functions and conferences.
David & Stacy Hiler, who have purchased the Inn in July of 1999, plan to continue in the tradition of the families and Innkeepers before them, maintaining the history of property while providing the utmost in dining and accommodations to travelers and visitors alike.
Come be a part of the Three Mountain Inn as it enters into its third century of existence.
| ERROR MSGDavid and Stacy Hiler Route 30 Jamaica, Vermont 05343 |  | Phone: (802) 874-4140 Email: stay@threemtn.com www.ThreeMountainInn.com |
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