Manchester Equinox Hotel
— — a white colonnade that has watched two centuries of guests.
Not only on a wall.
“A long white-columned hotel at the foot of Mount Equinox in Manchester Village, Vermont. The property traces its roots to Marsh Tavern, opened in 1769, making it one of the oldest continuously operating inns in the country. Mary Todd Lincoln stayed here with her sons in the summers of 1863 and 1864, and the Lincoln family connection runs on through Hildene, Robert Todd Lincoln's home just down the road in Manchester. — from the studio
Manchester Equinox Hotel, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Equinox Resort sits along Main Street in Manchester Village in southern Vermont, beneath the 3,848-foot ridge of Mount Equinox in the Taconic Range. The property dates to 1769, when William Marsh opened Marsh Tavern on the site. The tavern grew across the nineteenth century into the white-columned Greek Revival hotel that defines the village today. The Equinox is on the National Register of Historic Places and remains the anchor building of one of the most intact early-American village streetscapes in New England.
The hotel's defining feature is its long Greek Revival colonnade, painted brilliant white and running the length of the Main Street facade. Behind the colonnade the building reads as a series of joined nineteenth-century blocks, with marble sidewalks quarried locally from the Dorset and Manchester beds. The same Vermont marble paves much of the village street outside the hotel. The complex has been expanded and renovated several times across two centuries, most recently in a multi-year restoration completed in the 2010s.
Mary Todd Lincoln and her sons Robert and Tad stayed at the Equinox in the summers of 1863 and 1864. The family planned to return in 1865 with the president, a visit cancelled by the assassination. Robert Todd Lincoln later built Hildene, his summer home, about two miles south of the hotel in 1905. The estate is open to the public today and remains the strongest surviving link between Manchester and the Lincoln family. The hotel keeps a discreet record of the connection in its public rooms.