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GRAND HOTEL WHEN HE BOUGHT THE VACANT MOUNTAIN VIEW HOTEL, KEVIN CRAFFEY PLANNED TO REOPEN IT IN A FEW MONTHS. BUT REVIVING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE LANDMARK HAS PROVED TOUGHER THAN HE THOUGHT.

NEW HAMPSHIRE'S OLDEST hotel was the last thing on Kevin Craffey's mind in1998. He was looking for a summer home on Martha's Vineyard, an oceanfront retreat for his family. But then he happened onto a newspaper article about the Mountain View House, a 200-room grande dame in Whitefield, 20 miles from North Conway.The hotel, vacant since 1985, was for sale, listed at $1.3 million. The buyer would get 360 acres, a nine-hole golf course (still in use), a clubhouse, a conference hall, and carriage houses as well as the vast main building. To Craffey, a Duxbury, Massachusetts, resident who owns two contracting firms in Hanover, that sounded like a deal worth a second look.

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