Ron Resden's Photo Archives (Set
02) of
the Sunset Hill House Resort
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
In Summer of 2017 a
friendly stranger walked up our drive
He introduced himself as Ron Resden, a gunsmith from Guildhall, Vermont
He recalls both the old iron mine of Sugar Hill, NH and the 1880 Sunset Hill
House Resort that was torn down in 1974
Our cottage sits where
the main hotel of the 1880 SHH Resort was located
I previously wrote about the history of this resort
Scroll down to Cottage History at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
When he departed Ron Resden left me with a CD containing many pictures of the former SHH Resort
A couple of weeks ago
I shared Set 01 of Ron's pictures, most of which are taken from historic
post cards
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Resden/01ResdenSHH.htm
I will now share Set 02 of Ron's pictures
The current Inn at Sunset Hill is a small hotel today that was the former Annex
where the employees of the SHH Resort slept
Today's Inn at Sunset Hill has about 24 rooms. The demolished SHH Resort Hotel
could sleep over 300 guests 1880-1973
Most guests in the early years arrived by horse carriage from the train depots
in Sugar Hill and Lisbon
Before the days of air conditioning guests came for long visits to escape the
heat and foul air of the big cities
Below is an 1881 Post Card Showing the Main Hotel of the Resort
Below is an 1892 Post Card of the West Side of the Main Hotel
This is a 1906 Post Card Showing the Hills (Not Mountains) to the North
Buildings Between the Barns and the Main Hotel Included the Golf Club House,
Bowling Alley, Power House, Casino, and Annex
Looking up From the East Side in Winter of 1908
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This is a lookout to the Kinsman, Twin, and Presidential Mountain Ranges of the
White Mountains to the East
This is that same lookout in pictures I took in 2012 (note that the big tree had
to be cut down)
Mt. Washington in the Presidential Range is 28 miles from this point
Mt. Layfayette, Lincoln, and Cannon in the Kinsman Range are about 10 miles from
this point
The Elm Farm dating back to 1784 was the first development in Sugar Hill Village
The photograph below was taken in 1911
Before there was a SHH Resort the Elm Farm commenced taking in boarders
Some workers building the SHH Resort in the late 1870s stayed in the Elm
farmhouse
A significant addition (adding a third floor) was made in 1889 when the Elm farmhouse became more widely
known as the Homestead Inn
The backside of the building below was the entry way on the south side off of
Sunset Hill Road.
Part 1
of the History of the Homestead Inn Torn Down in 2015
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Hotels/Homestead/Set01/Set01.htm
Part 2
of the History of the Homestead Inn
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Hotels/Homestead/Set02/Set02.htm
The highest mountain of the left is the second-highest mountain in New Hampshire
--- Mt. Lafayette
You can also see the V-shaped "notch" known as Franconia Notch bordered on the
right by Cannon Mountain
Franconia Notch later became a New Hampshire State Park
One
surviving building after the demolition in 1974 was the Annex for SHH Resort
Employees
It was remodeled and is now a
small hotel known as the Inn at Sunset Hill
http://www.innatsunsethill.com/
Video
The Inn on Sunset Hill (just down from our cottage) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s
Cottage
Set 01 of my cottage pictures --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm
Set 02 inside the cottage --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/2009/Tidbits090723.htm
Set 03 inside the cottage --- www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Cottage\Inside/Set03/Set03InteriorCottage.htm
Set 04 inside the cottage --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Cottage\Inside/Set04/Set04InteriorCottage.htm
Photographs of Putting a New Rubber Roof Under Our Widow's Walk
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CottageHistory/WidowsWalk/WidowsWalk.htmIndoor Plants --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/IndoorPlants/IndoorPlantsFavorites.htm
Amaryllis --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/2008/Tidbits080212.htmThe Inn on Sunset Hill (just down from our cottage) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s
Cottage History
Sunset Hill House Resort History Set 01 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/CottageHistory/Hotel/Brochure/Brochure1900.htmHistoric Photographs (Set 01) of the Sunset Hill House Resort Shared by Gunsmith Ron Resden from Vermont
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Resden/01ResdenSHH.htmHistoric Photographs (Set 02) of the Sunset Hill House Resort Shared by Gunsmith Ron Resden from Vermont
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Resden/02ResdenSHH.htmHistoric Photographs (Set 03) of the Sunset Hill House Resort Shared by Gunsmith Ron Resden from Vermont
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Resden/03ResdenSHH.htm
After the Sunset Hill House Resort was nearly all demolished in 1974, our cottage (before it was ours)
was moved in 1977 from the golf course across a tennis court and up to where the former hotel site.
I show pictures of the preparation work prior to the moving the cottage and its four fireplaces
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CottageHistory/OldSite/Set01/Set01.htmNext I show pictures of the move to the new site
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CottageHistory/NewSite/Set01/Set01.htmNext I show the pictures of a 1890 spectacular fire on one of the remaining three cottages
www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/CottageHistory/Fire/FireSet01.htmIron Ore --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/2007/Tidbits070924.htm
Sunset Hill House Hotel: The American Dream ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/SunsetHillHouse/SunsetHillHouse.htmPart 1 of the History of the Homestead Inn Torn Down in 2015
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Hotels/Homestead/Set01/Set01.htmPart 2 of the History of the Homestead Inn
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Hotels/Homestead/Set02/Set02.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://facuolty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Blogs of White
Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02242409292439585691
Especially note
the archive of John Compton's blogs at the bottom of the page at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/
Question
Are there trails in our White Mountains of New Hampshire that have ice in summer
as well as winter?
See "The Ice Gulch, Would I do it Again" by John Compton, August 5, 2011 ---
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/2011_08_05_archive.html
Okay, you might ask, is there really ice in the Ice Gulch, even in August? Yes, there is! The next photo shows one small patch of ice. There were many larger patches, but they were at the bottom of some of those deep gaps that I mentioned above. I took some photos, but none of them really turned out, even with using a flash to illuminate these dark, dank, deep spots.
White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/
On May 14,
2006 I retired from
Trinity University after a long and
wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was
generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My
wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://facuolty.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm
Bob
Jensen's Blogs ---
http://facuolty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://facuolty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://facuolty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
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http://facuolty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures
---
http://facuolty.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Our
address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
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