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22-792: The Omni Mount Washington Resort is a historic luxury resort hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire , United States, near Mount Washington . It was designed by Charles Alling Gifford . In 1944, it hosted the Bretton Woods Conference , which established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank . It is a member of Historic Hotels of America , the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation . The area, part of

44-462: A fortune before the age of 30 as a coal broker in Pennsylvania . In 1881 Stickney and his partner, John N. Conyngham, had purchased the nearby Mount Pleasant Hotel (a large early hotel demolished in 1939) from lumberman John T.G. Leavitt. Subsequently, Stickney began work on his Mount Washington Hotel. He had envisioned the hotel to be a luxurious getaway for urban dwellers looking to escape

66-700: A plantation in the White Mountains. The plantation became the town of Carroll, and the southeast corner of the land retained the name "Bretton Woods", after the estate. The Mount Washington Hotel and Resort is one in the last surviving handful of New Hampshire grand hotels, and includes two golf courses , alpine and Nordic skiing, a 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m ) spa, sled rides, dog sled rides, tennis, horseback riding and much more in its facilities. The Bretton Woods Mountain Resort ski area serves both downhill and cross-country skiing , primarily in

88-516: Is located along U.S. Route 302 , 5 miles (8 km) east of the village of Twin Mountain and 20 miles (32 km) through scenic Crawford Notch northwest of the town of Bartlett . In 1772, King George III granted Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall , a country house in West Bretton , West Yorkshire , and 82 others, a parcel of 24,640 acres (9,970 ha) of land to be laid out as

110-489: The Great Depression curtailed the hospitality business. In 1936, Mrs. Stickney's nephew, Foster Reynolds, inherited the hotel, but it closed in 1942 because of World War II . In 1944, a Boston syndicate bought the extensive property for about $ 450,000. The Bretton Woods monetary conference took place that year, establishing the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund . The owners were paid $ 300,000 for

132-576: The Historic Hotels of America program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation . Bretton Woods, New Hampshire Bretton Woods is an area within the town of Carroll , New Hampshire , United States, whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities. Being virtually surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest , the vista from Bretton Woods toward Mount Washington and

154-756: The Presidential Range includes no significant artificial structures other than the Mount Washington Cog Railway and the Mount Washington Hotel . Bretton Woods was the site of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 which has given its name to the Bretton Woods system and led to the establishment of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 1945. The Bretton Woods system ended in 1971. Bretton Woods

176-750: The Rosebrook Mountains , located in Bethlehem to the south. The downhill resort is the largest in New Hampshire, with 101 trails. In the early twentieth century heyday of northern U.S. resorts for the elite, rail passengers would travel from Boston on the Boston and Maine 's Mountaineer. From New York City, passengers took the Connecticut Yankee , Day White Mountains , Night White Mountains , or Overnighter. The tracks of

198-667: The real estate investment trust EPR Properties . The remaining ski resorts were sold to Och-Ziff Capital Management . CNL founder James Seneff purchased a controlling stake in Alliance Bankshares, taking over the company and renaming it CNLBank. The bank was headquartered in the Citrus Center . Valley National Bank acquired CNLBank in 2015. In 2011, CNL launched CNL Properties Trust. Also in 2011, CNL joined with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to form an investment company for private corporate debt. Recently CNL sold

220-695: The Base Road had been traditional into 2004.) The Cog was operated during the winter seasons of 2004 to 2006 to take wilderness skiers partway up the mountain. [REDACTED] Media related to Bretton Woods, New Hampshire at Wikimedia Commons CNL Financial Group The company invests in and manages commercial real estate, runs Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and invests in private companies. The company's divisions include CNL Commercial Real Estate, CNL Securities Corp., CNL Growth Properties, CNL Healthcare Properties, Global Income Trust and Corporate Capital Trust. In 2013, Florida Trend ranked it as

242-641: The Cog Railway and its associated buildings lie up the slope of Mount Washington, in nearby Thompson and Meserve's Purchase . The "Base Road" from Bretton Woods and Fabyan's is the preferred route to the lower end of the tracks (the Base Station of the Cog), except in those winters when the Mount Clinton Road is instead the only plowed road to their intersection. (The closing of the lower end of

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264-674: The adjacent golf course and development rights. In January 2009 the Mount Washington Resort completed a 50,000 square feet (4,600 m) addition that includes a 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m) spa and a 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m) conference center. Omni Hotels & Resorts assumed management of both the Mount Washington Hotel and the Bretton Arms Inn in September of that year and

286-456: The city. Stickney brought in 250 Italian artisans to build it, particularly the granite and stucco masonry . Construction started in 1900 on the Y-shaped hotel, which opened on July 28, 1902. At its completion, the hotel boasted over 2,000 doors, 12,000 windows, and over eleven miles of plumbing. At the opening ceremony, Stickney told the audience, "Look at me, gentlemen ... for I am

308-651: The hotel became the Omni Mount Washington Resort . In November 2010, it was revealed that CNL had sought to trademark the Mount Washington name, which upset area business owners. CNL said they were just directing their efforts against other hotels in the area that have the mountain's name and not other businesses that also have it. In December 2015, the Bretton Woods Mountain Resort, including both hotels,

330-616: The hotel was based on The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado . Regardless, the legend persists, even being included in the Condé Nast Travelers' video "50 People Tell Us The Best Movies & TV Shows Set in Their States". The Omni Bretton Arms Inn is a hotel in the larger resort which was built as a house in 1896. The Bretton Arms served as staff housing for many years. It has been separately named to

352-404: The hotel's original 9-hole course designed by A.H. Findlay. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986. In 1991, the hotel was sold to MWH Preservation Limited Partnership for $ 3.1 million. The hotel opened for its first winter season in 1999. Until then, the hotel was seasonal, and would close to guests late in the fall and open in the spring. The entire hotel was overhauled before

374-488: The loss of business and promised a daily room charge of $ 18 per person for the 19-day conference. Subsequently, each bedroom carried a plaque outside its door identifying which country's representative at that conference had stayed in that room. The Mount Washington Hotel and Resort is one of the last surviving grand hotels in the White Mountains and includes an 18-hole Donald Ross -designed golf course, as well as

396-501: The poor fool who built all this!" Within a year he was dead at the age of 64 due to a heart attack. His wife, Carolyn Stickney, spent her summers at the hotel for the next decade, adding the Sun Dining Room with guest rooms above, the fourth floor between the towers, and the chapel honoring her late husband. Under its capable first manager, John Anderson, the hotel was a success. But the advent of income tax , Prohibition , and

418-763: The state's 33rd largest private company. It is frequently covered in the news media for its real estate transactions and has assets of approximately $ 25 billion. Seneff was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association in 2010. In 2003, a division of the company bought five hotels with Hilton Hotels for a combined $ 402 million. CNL sold its hotel holdings in 2007. CNL's REITs owned many major resorts and hotels such as Darien Lake , Frontier City , Elitch Gardens Theme Park , Okemo Mountain , Sugarloaf ski resort , Jiminy Peak , and Magic Springs and Crystal Falls and Wild Waves Theme Park . CNL sold its theme parks and Northstar California ski resort to

440-430: The town of Carroll, New Hampshire , includes the Bretton Woods ski resort nearby. It is located at the northern end of Crawford Notch , 6 miles (10 km) east of the village of Twin Mountain along U.S. Route 302 . The Mount Washington Hotel was constructed between 1900 and 1902 at a cost of $ 1.7 million (approximately $ 62 million today) by Joseph Stickney , a native of Concord, New Hampshire who had made

462-706: The winter, with efficient windows installed in the entire hotel. In June 2006, the Bretton Woods Mountain Resort , consisting of 991 acres, including the Mount Washington Hotel, the Bretton Arms Country Inn, The Lodge at Bretton Woods, and the Bretton Woods Ski Area, was sold to the CNL Financial Group , of Orlando, Florida for $ 45 million. Soon after, they spent an additional $ 40 million on

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484-572: Was purchased by Omni Hotels & Resorts. from CNL,. There is a popular urban legend that the Mount Washington Hotel served as inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's novel The Shining (1977) and the subsequent film adaptation . King is a native of nearby Maine and has set several of his novels in New Hampshire. Regardless, King and the Mount Washington Hotel themselves have discredited this legend, with King stating

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