CLP Bretton Woods LLC history

Founded in 1868, it is the world’s first mountain-climbing cog railway!

1875: Local lumberman John T.G. Leavitt constructed a hotel called the “Mount Pleasant House” near New Hampshire’s iconic Mount Washington.

He left the entire business to his beloved wife, Carolyn Foster Stickney, whom he had met back in 1892.

1894: Stickney became the sole owner of the Mount Pleasant House by buying out his fellow partners.

1903: Joseph Stickney passed away, mere months after opening the Mount Washington Hotel.

While Carolyn eventually remarried a French nobleman named Jean Baptiste Marie de Faucigny Lucinge in 1908, she constructed the marvelous Stickney Memorial Chapel in Joseph’s memory.

Landscape architect Brian Silva also started renovating the resort’s renowned Donald J. Ross golf course, which had been in operation since 1915.

1936: Carolyn Foster Stickney died after having managed the Mount Washington Hotel for the better part of three decades.

Reynolds then proceeded to dismantle much of the Mount Pleasant House in 1939.

The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference was held in July 1944 at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where delegates from forty-four nations created a new international monetary system known as the Bretton Woods system.

The IMF came into formal existence in December 1945, when its first twenty-nine member countries signed its Articles of Agreement.

In 1955, the hotel was sold to Mr. and Mrs.

Bretton Woods Recreation Center was established by the International Monetary Fund in 1968 in order to provide attractive and non-discriminatory recreational facilities for its staff, retirees and immediate family.

1986: The United States Secretary of the Interior further recognized the historical and architectural significance of the Mount Washington Hotel by deeming it a National Historic Landmark.

In April, the hotel acquires 950 acres bordering Hotel property, extending the resort's holdings to 1,250 acres and restoring land and buildings, including the Bretton Woods Sports Club, that were part of the complex before its 1988 subdivision.

1997: In April, the hotel acquires 950 acres bordering the hotel, which extended its holdings to a total of 1,250.

The temporary Mount Washington Resort Alpine & Country Club's winter base lodge, the Alpine Club, is constructed and opens its doors in time for Christmas 2007.

A similar undertaking occurred at the neighboring Bretton Arms Country inn, which had become the “Omni Bretton Arms Inn” in 2010.

In the Fall of 2012, the resort also began a $6.5 million restoration of the hotel’s signature red roofs with innovative technology to prevent icicles from forming in the winter months.