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Article: A grand restoration Developer plans to return Mountain View House in N.H. to its former glory
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 10, 1999
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WHITEFIELD, N.H. -- A Massachusetts businessman who once worked as
the carpenter's steward at Fenway Park plans to restore the historic
Mountain View House hotel here and reopen it by July Fourth.
When Kevin Craffey, owner of Craffey & Co. construction in
Hanover, first discovered the Mountain View House, buying a hotel was
not on his mind.
"I was actually looking for a summer home on Martha's Vineyard,"
said the 34-year-old native of Jamaica Plain.
Craffey, who lives in Duxbury with his wife, Joanne, and their two
young children, was about to search the classified advertisements
last October when a newspaper article about the sale of the northern
New Hampshire hotel caught his attention. ...