KILBURN BROS LITTLETON NH STEREOVIEW PROFILE HOUSE FRANCONIA NOTCH WINTER

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KILBURN BROS LITTLETON NH STEREOVIEW PROFILE HOUSE FRANCONIA NOTCH WINTER:
$14.95

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Offered for sale is an early stereoview by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.H. The Kilburn Brothers were active from 1865 to 1877. This stereoview is titled as follows ----

The Profile House, inFranconiaNotch, existed for 70 years.The first Profile House opened in 1853 and the “New” Profile burned in 1923. At the time of its destruction, it could accommodate 500 guests and was the most luxurious hotel on the west side of the mountains.The parking lot for theCannonMountainSki Area and Tramway now covers the site where the hotel stood.

In 1852, when Richard Taft and his company, the Flume and Franconia Hotel Company, bought the Lafayette House at the north end of the Notch, construction began on the first Profile House and it opened in 1853, a simple three and a half story building.It was expanded several times, by the addition of first one wing and then another.A large dining room was added, outbuildings were added and starting in 1868, a number of “cottages” were constructed. There would eventually be about twenty of these cottages, which were connected to one another and the main building by covered walkways.Cottages were initially rented but were later owned by well-to-do guests who would spend the entire summer at the hotel but wanted more privacy than the hotel itself offered.A stable accommodated 350 horses and carriage sheds housed the wide variety of wagons and coaches needed.

This information came from White Mountain will accept PAYPAL. Items will be shipped first class mail usually next day after payment of Paypal, packaging and mail $2.99. I will combine shipping 1 to 3 views $2.99, 3 to 6 views $5.35 and over 6 no additional postage or shipping charge.

I will ship internationally, payment must be in US funds, Paypal. I will ship world wide International first Class Mail 1 stereoview for $5.99 plus $1.00 for each additional stereoview in combined ship. This increase is due to the new postal service rates. Perhaps I should note that my cost to ship 1 - Two Oz package is $6.16 (1 stereoview packaged) , a 3 oz package is $9.18 international first class mail