http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/tags/1920/ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:57:57 -0800 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:57:57 -0800 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm1.staticflickr.com/70/buddyicons/34619038@N00.jpg?1247864782#34619038@N00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/tags/1920/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2293421273/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2293421273/" title="Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – panorama"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2249/2293421273_23d45325d2_m.jpg" width="240" height="110" alt="Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – panorama" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> • See a custom <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for all these sites.</p> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:57:57 -0800 2008-02-26T10:57:57-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2293421273 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – panorama <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> • See a custom <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for all these sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2291296332/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2291296332/" title="Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – sign"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2372/2291296332_4a26782687_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – sign" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:43:24 -0800 2008-02-24T13:32:16-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2291296332 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – sign <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2291299784/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2291299784/" title="Bread Loaf Inn (1882)"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2322/2291299784_3aa12de851_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bread Loaf Inn (1882)" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> • See a custom <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc">Google Map</a> with geolocations for all these sites.</p> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:46:01 -0800 2008-02-24T13:29:47-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2291299784 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Inn (1882) <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> • See a custom <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc">Google Map</a> with geolocations for all these sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2290504737/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2290504737/" title="Bread Loaf Inn (1882)"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3110/2290504737_9e81c31c93_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bread Loaf Inn (1882)" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> • See a custom <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc">Google Map</a> with geolocations for all these sites.</p> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:45:35 -0800 2008-02-24T13:30:50-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2290504737 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Inn (1882) <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> • See a custom <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc">Google Map</a> with geolocations for all these sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2290503597/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2290503597/" title="Bread Loaf Inn (1882)"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2017/2290503597_704e791547_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bread Loaf Inn (1882)" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:44:41 -0800 2008-02-24T13:31:10-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2290503597 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Inn (1882) <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2290502899/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2290502899/" title="Bread Loaf Inn (1882) - detail"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2117/2290502899_683c7a2913_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Bread Loaf Inn (1882) - detail" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:44:08 -0800 2008-02-24T13:31:30-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2290502899 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Inn (1882) - detail <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2291296828/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2291296828/" title="Bread Loaf Inn (1882) - sign along Rte. 125"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2042/2291296828_a3b46c850a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bread Loaf Inn (1882) - sign along Rte. 125" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:43:46 -0800 2008-02-24T13:32:00-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2291296828 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Inn (1882) - sign along Rte. 125 <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2290504289/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/2290504289/" title="Bread Loaf Inn (1882)"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2071/2290504289_5d0b121115_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bread Loaf Inn (1882)" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> • See a custom <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc">Google Map</a> with geolocations for all these sites.</p> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:45:12 -0800 2008-02-24T13:31:02-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2290504289 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Inn (1882) <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> • See a custom <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc">Google Map</a> with geolocations for all these sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087182678/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087182678/" title="Additional Structures at The Bread Loaf Inn"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1437/1087182678_be8056a5de_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Additional Structures at The Bread Loaf Inn" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:22:27 -0700 2007-08-10T15:20:51-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1087182678 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Additional Structures at The Bread Loaf Inn <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1086321135/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1086321135/" title="The Hotel (1885)"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1325/1086321135_4355041acb_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Hotel (1885)" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:22:16 -0700 2007-08-10T15:23:31-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1086321135 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 The Hotel (1885) <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087185452/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087185452/" title="The Bread Loaf Inn (1882)"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1145/1087185452_598006ad56_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Bread Loaf Inn (1882)" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:22:50 -0700 2007-08-10T15:19:04-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1087185452 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 The Bread Loaf Inn (1882) <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1086315133/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1086315133/" title="The Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – roofline detail"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1078/1086315133_3886dae3c3_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – roofline detail" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:21:30 -0700 2007-08-10T15:35:19-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1086315133 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 The Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – roofline detail <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1086318407/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1086318407/" title="Bread Loaf - Residence (c.1900) – eyebrow dormer detail"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1272/1086318407_379a26a58c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bread Loaf - Residence (c.1900) – eyebrow dormer detail" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:21:56 -0700 2007-08-10T15:28:24-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1086318407 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf - Residence (c.1900) – eyebrow dormer detail <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087181902/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087181902/" title="Bread Loaf - Residence (1890) – Italianate porch detail"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1382/1087181902_bdce22cb07_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Bread Loaf - Residence (1890) – Italianate porch detail" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:22:21 -0700 2007-08-10T15:22:53-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1087181902 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf - Residence (1890) – Italianate porch detail <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087173320/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087173320/" title="Bread Loaf - The Barn (1885)"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1353/1087173320_1e0803a879_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bread Loaf - The Barn (1885)" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:21:15 -0700 2007-08-10T15:34:53-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1087173320 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf - The Barn (1885) <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1086323765/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1086323765/" title="The Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – roofline detail"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1113/1086323765_2286e90aa2_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – roofline detail" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:22:37 -0700 2007-08-10T15:19:27-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1086323765 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 The Bread Loaf Inn (1882) – roofline detail <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087177316/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087177316/" title="Bread Loaf Dormitory (1935) – porch detail"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1363/1087177316_e59e172430_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Bread Loaf Dormitory (1935) – porch detail" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:21:45 -0700 2007-08-10T15:25:51-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1087177316 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Dormitory (1935) – porch detail <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087186396/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087186396/" title="Bread Loaf Dormitory (1935) – view of Bread Loaf Mountain"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1394/1087186396_b3d8b12d03_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bread Loaf Dormitory (1935) – view of Bread Loaf Mountain" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:22:57 -0700 2007-08-10T15:26:37-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1087186396 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Dormitory (1935) – view of Bread Loaf Mountain <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087174442/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087174442/" title="The Hotel (1885) at The Bread Loaf Inn - View down Rte 125"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1132/1087174442_d84df2b3be_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Hotel (1885) at The Bread Loaf Inn - View down Rte 125" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:21:24 -0700 2007-08-10T15:29:45-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1087174442 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 The Hotel (1885) at The Bread Loaf Inn - View down Rte 125 <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087176396/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/donshall/">origamidon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/1087176396/" title="Bread Loaf Dormitory (1935) – porch detail"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1113/1087176396_d3ec6aa626_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bread Loaf Dormitory (1935) – porch detail" /></a></p> <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:21:38 -0700 2007-08-10T15:26:05-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (origamidon) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/1087176396 44.013435 -73.169116 44.013435 -73.169116 2450306 Bread Loaf Dormitory (1935) – porch detail <p>Ripton, Vermont USA • The <b>Bread Loaf Inn</b>, started by <b>Joseph Battell</b> (<b>Middlebury College</b> Trustee, Class of 1860) in the late 1860s in an old farmhouse. In 1882 he commissioned <b>Clinton Smith</b> to remodel the buildings in the French Second Empire style, with Mansard roofs. <br /> <br /> After his death, he willed the Inn and his enormous collection of mountains (over 31,000 acres) to <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/" rel="nofollow"><b>Middlebury College</b></a>. The bulk of the lands now form the heart of the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl/green_mountain/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Green Mountain National Forest</b></a>. Middlebury College retained its fine ski facility, the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/facilities/snowbowl/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snow Bowl</b></a>; and the Inn which it uses its <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf School of English</b></a> (since 1920), and for its world famous <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference</b></a> (since 1926). <br /> <br /> And here is a fine historical summary from <a href="" rel="nofollow">HCAP: the Historical Campus Architecture Project</a>: <i>The Bread Loaf campus is a preciously intact example of Vermont's Victorian resort architecture. The core group of buildings (inn, dormitories, barn, cottages) exists largely as it was constructed by Clinton Smith for Joseph Battell in the late 19th century: picturesque frame buildings, expansive lawns, mountain setting. It was supplemented in the 1930s with a little theater, library, and classroom structures in a colonial revival style, partly as a replacement for a theater and bowling alley that burned. It is well maintained and heavily utilized from May through October.<br /> <br /> This landmark complex not only preserves a significant architectural and landscape setting; it also has important associations for the environmental movement and for American literature. It was developed over a period of three and a half decades by wealthy Middlebury eccentric and philanthropist Joseph Battell, who built the complex on a Ripton farmstead where he had begun summering for his health. He set out to amass and protect all of the salubrious mountain landscape he could see from his retreat, ultimately with the dream of assembling a wilderness area for the people of the northeastern United States on the model of the national parks being established out West. By the time of his death he controlled over 31,000 acres. At their core he built Bread Loaf, named for a nearby mountain, as his summer home and a place for paying guests. In 1882 he commissioned his favored architect/builder Clinton Smith to remodel and expand his large farmhouse-like structure into the larger, mansard-roofed Bread Loaf Inn, with its wrap of verandah and crowning belvedere. This was accompanied by a mansard barn (1885), two large annexes (1885) with porches and galleries--all by Smith--and an array of guest cottages across the road, ranging from Gothic Revival (c.1875), to Shingle Style (c.1890), to Colonial Revival (c. 1900), to Adirondack Rustic (1890, 1895).<br /> <br /> At Battell's death in 1915, his vast mountain estate was left to Middlebury College, which was then faced with finding a way of managing the forestlands and utilizing the seasonal lodge. Beginning in 1920 they brought the Inn back to life as the summer Bread Loaf School of English, to which they added the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1926, drawing such luminaries to Battell's verandahs, mountains, and meadows as poet Robert Frost, who acquired a neighboring farm as his summer home from 1940-1963. In the 1930s the college sold the bulk of the forests (with the exception of the area around the Inn and the nearby Middlebury Snow Bowl) to the Federal Government for incorporation as the core of the northern range of the Green Mountain National Forest. In 1936 they utilized the proceeds by enlisting Dwight James Baum to build a major Georgian Revival dormitory on the school's main campus (appropriately named Forest Hall). The remaining wilderness is managed for cross-country ski trails and as part of the college's program in sustainable forestry, providing environmentally certified lumber for college building and furniture projects. </i><br /> <br /> ☞ See an explorable <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114975592556438504505.000436fb99fa235d46afc" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> with geolocations for over 70 related <b>Clinton Smith</b> sites.</p> origamidon usa architecture vermont vt 1920 middleburycollege 1926 ripton 1882 breadloaf schoolofenglish route125 greenmountainstate writersconference greenmountainsnationalforest addisoncounty clintonsmith josephbattell breadloafschoolofenglish breadloafwritersconference graduateschoolofenglish origamidon donshall riptonvermontusa classof1860 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en