Historic Lodging Places Intervale Area
THE NEW ENGLAND INN Has a long and interesting history. We will post it here when it's all put together. Before it was the New England Inn it was the BLOODGOOD FARM.
The Eastern Slope of the White Mountains was still a vast, untamed wilderness when the original farmhouse was built on this site by Samuel Bloodgood, in 1809.
The Bloodgood farm was famous for its hospitality from the first and remained so during Samuel’s life and those of his sons and grandsons.
Among the third generation, Lyle Bloodgood had been a handsome, young and talented actor. Returning in later life after extensive travels, he often regaled his guests with tales of the state. His most exciting story was an eye-witness account of Lincoln’s assassination. He had been one of the performers at Ford’s theater
in Washington on that fatal night.It was some years before this, in the late 1830s, that the farm had in fact become an inn, the owners
setting a sign at the roadside to invite the traveling public to their hearth and board.
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The Hampshire House, across the street from the Inn. was acquired by the Inn and later remodeled to a more modern era.
The Emerson Inn was renamed to The Maple Villa during the 1920's. It burned to the ground in 1948.
Anybody ever heard of "Broadview" in 1924 ?
May 2011: Judy Curtis & Eliza Jane Curtis Know all about this cottage and provided the following information:
This was one of two neighboring summer cabins built in the early 1900's by each of the Burdett brothers, who founded Burdett College in Boston. The cabins are still standing, on Burdett Road (off 16A, across from Intervale Farm) in Intervale.
The uphill cabin, built by C Fred Burdett, was named Intervale Overlook and the lower cabin (pictured on this postcard) was named Intervale Broadview. This cabin was built as a summer house for Charles Burdett and his wife Anna Burdett, who had two daughters, Camilla and Anne, whose signature is on that postcard. Their year-round residence was at 7 Mishawum Road in Woburn, Mass, which is now home of the Woburn Historical Society.
Charles was the artistic one of the two brothers, excelling in calligraphy, hence leading into the business school. His delight in artistry can be seen in the Japanese influenced roof line of the cottage.
The cabin pictured on this postcard is no longer in the Burdett family, though the other more rustic cabin, Overlook, remains in the Burdett family.
NOTE: Here is a link to the Burdett mansion in Woburn, now home of the Woburn Historical Society:
Pitman Hall was spectacular while it lasted. Built in 1905 it burned in 1930
The Pitman Family were an industrious lot for sure. One can find their name attached to at least a half dozen substantial hotels in the Intervale Area. Some were Judges, Lawyers, Pharmacists, teachers, or just plain ole farmer folk.
You can read a full accounting of each relative and what they did at this link.
Pitman's Arch - Named in honor of Lycurgis for his devotion to the Town,
Pitman residence - have photo
Alice Pendexter - wife of John Pitman 1774 had 11 children
Angivine - another proprietor of East Branch House - died in 1880
Benjamin - Built Cedarcroft 1800
Doris - Daughter of William, returned after retirement from a teaching career in 1941 to a home she and her sister built on the site of the East Branch House that burned.
Ella - First wife of George Gale, Maple Villa's owner
