Lawrence Manor
The building was definitely once a hotel or restaurant. It was called Lawrence Manor. Here is an ad from the 1947 Lakes Region Association's Where To guide. Sometime around the 1960's or early 1970's it went out of business. In the late 1970's there was briefly a fancy French restaurant there, but they were unsuccessful. In the late 1980's I remember touring the property when it was for sale, it was huge inside, but in very poor condition, so we didn't buy it. The 1947 advertisement notes that there were 40 acres of "fertile fields land wooded land" but in the late 1980's the property consisted of only about 3 acres. Later our business rented one of the outbuildings for storage for a few years. The current owners have done a nice job of restoration on the outside but I haven't a clue what the inside now looks like.
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