OLD TOWN HALL 1818 - SKI MUSEUM 2002
Artist’s rendering of the original 1818 Old Town Hall on its original site, current site of the Community Church at the north end of the village.
Artist: Jerry McDermott
In the 1860’s a team of oxen pulled the building down Main Street on rollers to its current site at the south end of the village. This is the building at its current site in the 1890’s when it was both a Town Hall and a gymnasium.
Courtesy of Stowe Historical Society.
A logger hitch in front of the Green Mountain Inn, circa 1920. Note the elaborate gingerbread architecture typical of the Victorian period on the Town Hall tower next door.
Courtesy of Stowe Historical Society.
In the 1930’s there were at least seven (7) gas pumps on Main Street, including this Esso station which stood on what is now the Museum’s parking lot. At this time the building housed the Stowe Fire Department and the Water & Lights Company.
Courtesy of Stowe Historical Society. Published in Images of America: Stowe by Wendy Parrish, copyright 2000.
A “ski train” pulling into town in the mid 1940’s. The tower of the Old Town Hall has been disassembled and rebuilt. Note the road signs to Jeffersonville, Smugglers Notch and Mt. Mansfield at today’s junction of Routes 100 and 108, the “Mountain Road.”
Courtesy of Stowe Historical Society.
This photo taken in 1953 is of the Stowe Fire Department when it was located in the building. The Fire Department occupied the building from the early 1900’s until 1973.
Courtesy of Stowe Historical Society.
This is a photo of the annual Stowe Rotary Auction held in the building on August 13, 1964. The one-armed auctioneer is Warren Smith. Note the Water and Lights Office doorway and the skis for auction.
Courtesy of the Stowe Reporter.
The Vermont Ski Museum building upon completion in 2002.
Photo by Susan Teare
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