The Highland Lodge, Greensboro, Northeast Vermont
On a hillside overlooking Caspian Lake, 137 acres stretch down to a sandy beach on the north shore of the lake. A central lodge with dining spaces, nine bedrooms and ten cottages made this a real find for families who have come for years to spend their summer and winter vacations in this unique setting.
Description: Central lodge and porte-cochere, front and side porches with rocking chairs and small tables, main dining room – all with views across the lake; small dining room looks out on the herb garden and bird house, perennial gardens and children playing on the back lawn.
Side-by-side living rooms with views out the front, front porch with room for dining and conversation away from the side porch, which is perfect for reading in the morning sun and watching the butterflies above the flowers.
Playroom with ping-pong table, foosball table, card table, couches. Public bathrooms, storerooms. Kitchen wing fully equipped for restaurant food service, with upstairs apartment.
Nine bedrooms, eight upstairs, can sleep eighteen, plus cots. Ten cottages, one to three bedrooms, on the hillside behind and beyond the lodge, two in a pine forest, eight with views across the lake, kitchens suitable for lunch, one full kitchen.
Playhouse for play-programs, nature studies and art. Various buildings for storage of tools and equipment and firewood. Clay tennis court with fence. Boathouse with changing rooms, bathroom, on sandy beach. Canoes, kayaks, sailboats, rowboats, paddleboats.
One hundred thirty-seven acres, newly surveyed, of fields, forest and natural wetland on either side of Porter Brook, and Nature trail with bridges. Snowshoe trails and Cross-Country Ski trails up Barr Hill. Hardwoods suitable for firewood. Land subject to rights of way and rights of use by neighboring landowners.
Spring-water, gravity feed and back up drilled well, with reservoir above lodge and cottages.
1608 Craftsbury Road, Greensboro, VT 05841
email: willie@highlandlodge.com, tel: 802-533-2647
Essentials:
price: $2,200,000.00
acres: 136.60 (60.35 rural district, ten acre zoning; 76.25 lake district zoning, 1 acre zoning, in land trust)
beach: 290 front feet
land trust acres: 76.25
taxes: $15,000 (current-use discount maintained)
sheds: 5
cottages: 10
bedrooms: 9
other lots with beach use: 5
year lodge built: 1860's
programs running now: nature camps, ski touring,
past programs: Stegner literary weekend, knitting retreat, birding retreat, quilting retreat, music performances, lecture series, running workshops, business retreats,
Ideal as a year around inn, a cottage colony, retreat space, meeting space, restaurant.
