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Mountain House (South Deerfield, Mass.)

Mountain House Photograph Collection

ca.1865
3 photographs 0.1 linear feet
Call no.: PH 042
Depiction of Mountain House, ca.1865
Mountain House, ca.1865

A popular tourist destination during the post-Civil War years, the Mountain House hotel was built on the summit of Sugar Loaf Mountain, in South Deerfield, Mass., by Granville Wardwell in 1864 on property owned by his father-in-law Dwight Jewett. Positioned near the southern end of the mountain, the hotel provided tourists with a stunning panoramic vista of the Connecticut River Valley.

This small collection consists of three scenic cartes de visite from a larger series featuring views from the Mountain House. The images include No. 6, a view of five persons perched on the southeast promontory of Sugar Loaf with a view to the northeast across the Connecticut River to Mt. Toby; No. 10, Mountain House with a group of nine men and women posed on the lawn with telescope and tripod; No. 18, view of barns at the southern base of Sugar Loaf Mountain.

Background on Mountain House

A popular tourist destination during the post-Civil War years, the Mountain House hotel was built on the summit of Sugar Loaf Mountain, in South Deerfield, Mass., by Granville Wardwell in 1864 on property owned by his father-in-law Dwight Jewett. Positioned near the southern end of the mountain, the hotel provided tourists with a stunning panoramic vista of the Connecticut River Valley.

Wardwell (1937-1920), a native of Vergennes, Vt., remained an hotelier into the early 1870s, later moving to Winchester, N.H.

Contents of Collection

This small collection consists of three scenic cartes de visite from a larger series featuring views from the Mountain House. The images include No. 6, a view of five persons perched on the southeast promontory of Sugar Loaf with a view to the northeast across the Connecticut River to Mt. Toby; No. 10, Mountain House with a group of nine men and women posed on the lawn with telescope and tripod; No. 18, view of barns at the southern base of Sugar Loaf Mountain.

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Inventory of Collection
Five persons perched on the southeast promontory of Sugar Loaf with a view to the northeast across the Connecticut River to Mt. Toby ca.1865 Carte de visite

On Verso: Views From and Of The Mountain House, Summit of Sugar-Loaf Mountain, South Deerfield, Mass. G. Wardwell, Proprietor. No. 6.”


Tourists atop southeast promontory of Sugar Loaf

Tourists atop southeast promontory of Sugar Loaf

Mountain House with nine men and women posed on the lawn, with telescope and tripod ca.1865 Carte de visite

On Verso: Views From and Of The Mountain House, Summit of Sugar-Loaf Mountain, South Deerfield, Mass. G. Wardwell, Proprietor. No. 10.”

Mountain House with nine men and women posed on the lawn, with telescope and tripod
Mountain House with nine men and women posed on the lawn, with telescope and tripod

Barns at the southern base of Sugar Loaf Mountain, South Deerfield. ca.1865 Carte de visite

On Verso: Views From and Of The Mountain House, Summit of Sugar-Loaf Mountain, South Deerfield, Mass. G. Wardwell, Proprietor. No. 18.”


Barns at the southern base of Sugar Loaf Mountain, South Deerfield

Barns at the southern base of Sugar Loaf Mountain, South Deerfield

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Provenance

Provenance unknown.

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Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, Feb. 2013.

Copyright and Use (More informationConnect to publication information)

Cite as: Mountain House Photograph Collection (PH 042). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.

Subjects

Mountain House (South Deerfield, Mass.)--PhotographsSouth Deerfield (Mass.) -- Pictorial worksSugar Loaf Mountain (Mass.)--Photographs

Contributors

Wardwell, Granville

Types of material

Photographs