Your country bed and breakfast retreat welcomes you to the heart of Vermont, Brandon...our guests visit us for romantic getaways, family reunions, and our great location just across a babbling mountain stream from Vermont's Green Mountain National Forest and its award-winning trail system. You can hike, bike, and even ski Vermont right from our front door! Quiet comfort, warm hospitality, and gracious, hearty dinners and breakfasts in an authentic century-old country inn await you here. Relax and enjoy the serenity of rural Vermont and the Green Mountains, or hop in your car for real "adventure" -- a short drive will bring you to the Art and Soul of Vermont, Brandon village, sophisticated Middlebury College, shopping in bustling Middlebury village, vistas of Lake Champlain and historic Fort Ticonderoga, or revitalized downtown Rutland. Come experience those special Vermont qualities that make our town, Brandon, Vermont, so "unhurried, unspoiled, and unforgettable."
The Churchill family first constructed a small dwelling and mill along the swift-flowing Neshobe River early in the 19th century. Like most New England farmers, to supplement their income they dabbled in lots of fields: they manufactured wintergreen oil, sold timber, milled grain, opened Vermont's first fish hatchery, cured piano sound-boards, and finally began taking in guests who had traveled the difficult east-west route from Rochester over "Brandon Gap." This proved to be both enjoyable and profitable.
In 1872, using lumber from trees felled on the land and milled at their mill, they constructed this 20-room house, designed as an inn. A floating floor was installed in the 3rd floor ballroom, and a 3-piece "orchestra" was hired from Rutland on certain evenings. Ask to see the dance card from the masquerade ball in 1887! Guests would come over from Rochester, have their grain milled, their horses stabled, and then have a hearty supper followed by a night of dancing. Early in the morning hours they would retire to bed and awaken to country breakfasts several hours later.
The Churchills ran their inn for several generations. Family obligations changing, the Churchills sold the inn and a small parcel of land in 1972. The inn was subsequently modernized and reconfigured in the and has seen four families of innkeepers come and go since then.
Churchill House Inn - Seth and Olya Hopkins, Innkeepers
3128 Forest Dale Road (VT Route 73 East) Brandon, Vermont 05733
Toll Free Reservations: (877) 248-7444 ~ Direct: (802) 247-3078
Website - http://www.churchillhouseinn.com
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