Stowe Mountain Lodge history

Mansfield was completed by 1870; the Summit House on the top of Mt.

The first inn, the Mansfield House, caught fire in 1889 and unfortunately burned to the ground.

The Depot Building, located adjacent to the Green Mountain Inn, was built in 1897 as a depot for the Mt.

1913 marked the beginning of a new era in the history of Stowe when three resident Swedish families took to traveling around town on long wooden boards with upturned ends.

Built primarily to house a toll collector for the Toll Road a simple base station was constructed in 1919 a few feet to the west of Vermont 108.

At the 1921 Stowe Winter Carnival, a jump was set up behind what is now Stowe Elementary School on Park Street.

In the 1930's, the Civilian Conservation Corps cut ski trails on Mount Mansfield by hand, creating its top-to-bottom, thrill-a-minute runs.

The first, constructed in 1933, was the Bruce Trail that led from the present site of the Octagon to Ranch Camp.

During the winter of 1934/35 the CCC cut the Nose Dive trail with its famous Seven Turns.

Lord made his first skiing descent of this new expert trail on April 4, 1935.

10, 1936, was a milestone date in the history of the resort when Sepp Ruschp arrived from Austria.

On March 5-6, 1938, the National Races came to Mount Mansfield leading to what is probably one of the three worst traffic jams in Vermont history.

Rope tows emerged as an easier method, only to be supplanted by chairlifts, beginning with a single chair in 1940.

In 1946 the five different companies under five different ownerships of various parts of the resort began to be consolidated.

Only ski resort in America under same ownership since 1949

Spruce's reign wouldn't last - a second double chairlift again shifted skiers to Mansfield in 1960, ending horrendous waiting times for the single chair.

Home of America's first male Olympic Alpine ski medalist: Billy Kidd, silver 1964

First 4-person gondola in the East — 1968

A number of improvements followed: Electric chairlifts, beginner trails, an eight-person gondola built in 1991.

The Stowe Mountain Lodge, a condo hotel, is scheduled to open in 2007, with 99 units priced from $350,000 to $1.6 million and two floors of time-share units.

First resort in Vermont to heat an entire building from waste heat off an electric drive of a chair lift — 2011

In June 2014, Spruce Peak Realty broke ground on an ambitious phase of development, named “Spruce Peak Center.