Butler House (Stowe, Vermont)

Butler House is an inn and restaurant in the Stowe Village Historic District in Vermont, United States. Located at 128 Main Street (Vermont Route 100), at the intersection with School Street,[2] the building dates to 1835. It stands directly opposite Stowe Community Church.[2]

Butler House
The building in 2022
Former namesSwisspot Building[1]
General information
LocationStowe, Vermont, U.S.
Address128 Main Street
Coordinates44.465086361°N 72.6849048°W / 44.465086361; -72.6849048
Completed1835 (1835)
OwnerPaul and Laura Biron (since 2009)
Technical details
Floor count3

The building was formerly the home of Orion W. Butler (1803–1883), one of Stowe's first attorneys.[3][4] It has also been a tavern and a post office.[2]

Current owners Paul and Laura Biron purchased the property in 2009,[5] shortly after its thirty-year stint as the Swisspot Restaurant.[1] They renovated the building in line with National Historic Trust guidelines.[6] Preceding the Butler House name change, the couple also owned the previous two businesses at the location: a restaurant named Mi Casa, and its predecessor, Frida's Taqueria.[5]

In addition to guest rooms, a restaurant, named Butler's Pantry, serves breakfast.[7] The restaurant won the Most Popular Breakfast award from Insider.com in 2018[8] and the Best Pancakes in Vermont award from People in 2020.

In the mid-19th century, Butler House was one of several buildings used to determine the height of Mount Washington:

A line of levels gave the height of the Butler House in Stowe to be 851.70. A triangulation from a base measured near this point gave the height of No. 18 to be 4,387.25 and of No. 19 4,061.46

— Edward Charles Pickering, Accurate Mountain Heights[9]

References
  1. "Landmark building gets facelift" - Vermont Community Newspaper Group, June 18, 2008
  2. "Stowe's Butler House is Pure Vermont". Adventure Economics. 2020-10-22. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  3. "Butler House Stowe: Charming Lodging on Main Street". www.butlerhousestowe.com. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  4. Child, Hamilton (1889). Gazetteer of Washington County, Vt., 1783-1889. Syracuse Journal Company. p. 84.
  5. Reporter, Caleigh Cross | Stowe. "Butler House once again home to a restaurant". Vermont Community Newspaper Group. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  6. "History of the Property | Butler House Stowe". www.butlerhousestowe.com. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  7. Kearnan, Scott (2022-01-21). "10 Must-Visit Restaurants in Stowe, Vermont". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  8. Ettinger, Erin McDowell, Zoë. "The best pancakes in every state". Insider. Retrieved 2022-05-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. Accurate Building Heights, Edward Charles Pickering (1886), p. 219
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