Inn the Village B&B began as a family house. The two images above show the house and its inhabitants in the 1880’s. Known as the “Hoyt House,” it remained with the Hoyt family until the 1990’s.

The image to the right is the house as it was before the renovation began. In doing the renovation, you can see that we restored the original circular window. It was there all along. We discovered it hidden beneath the clapboards when we tore them off to put back what was there. We also brought back the shutters, window mantels and gingerbread trim which had been lost over the years.

When we tore down the back
of house to completely rebuilt it, two Bennington pots were recovered under 6 feet of soil. One of them is shown here. It was found in the digging, complete with all of its pieces, beautiful, a taste of nostalgia from earlier times. One can just imagine it being used to carry water or maple syrup. It is too precious now and too fragile to do anything else but to sit on a shelf and be appreciated as a reminder of where this whole project started.