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��A number of years ago the Milford Springs property came into possession of Messrs. Barnes and Dunklee, and they conceived the idea of building a summer hotel which should be a model of its class. The Hotel Ponemah is the result.

To reach the hotel, the traveller from Boston should take the cars at the Lowell Depot. After a ride of a little over an hour through Lowell and

��is very j^lain, but in the best of taste; being about 1 75 x 50, surrounded by an unbroken covered piazza thirteen feet wide. A picturesque attractive- ness is gained by painting the roof of the piazza, the window-caps, and the mansard roof, red; which contrasts well with the light-brown color used on the rest of the building.

" The main entrance is from the road, where the piazza is but a few feet

���HOTEL PONEMAH.

��Nashua, he should alight at Amherst station, where he will find in w-aiting a Concord coach to carry him to his des- tination, nearly two miles away. The road is mostly up-hill; and, as the coach lumbers along, one obtains a succession of pleasant rustic views of orchard and hay-field, and glimpses into the forest which encroaches on the highway.

" We had the pleasure of being sur- prised," wrote a correspondent of "The Boston Home Journal," "as we emerged from the screen of the orchards, and saw the handsome house above us. From an architectural point of view it

��above its level; though at the next corner it is full twelve feet above the hillside, and requires a long flight of steps to the pathway down the hill. This broad flight of steps, prettily railed, is an effective addition to the exterior of the house. The front door opens into a wide corridor and public ofiQce. On one side of the entrance is the re- ception-room, cheerily carpeted in red, and with an open fireplace in case of unseasonable weather. From this opens the parlor, a long room, with its lace- curtained windows and fashionable ap- pointments resembling more nearly

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