Gorgeous historic Sawyer Mansion built in 1896. Stunning and peaceful setting with gardens, lawns and lake views from upper floors. Lovingly renovated throughout by current owners, including new plumbing, electrical system, heating system, new foundation under garage, new windows and much more. Currently used as an owner-occupied Bed and Breakfast with 5 en suite guest rooms, owners apartment with 2+ bedrooms plus offices on top floor, massive laundry room, craft room, balcony, attached 2+ car garage, renovated kitchen and pantry. Beautifully furnished with unique antiques throughout. There is an additional 1200 sq. ft of unfinshed space above garage that could be a separate apartment with own entrance and lake-view porch. The possibilities of this home are endless, come and take a look at this spectacular one-of-a-kind mansion.
The gracious mansion grew out of humble beginnings when Saul Sawyer built the initial settlement in 1863. He was a woodworker that opened a saw mill. The mill grew as the town developed and in 1913 the third generation Sawyers transformed the house into the current footprint. Through these years the house was showered in love, happiness and prosperity, but also saw its heart ache and suffering. Several generations called it home.
In the later 1980’s it was surrounded by intrigue, murder and mystery. When we discovered this gem in 2007 it was buried in years of derelict, desertion and neglect. It begged to be restored, revived and re-loved. Greg and I have poured our hearts, funds, joys and sorrows into this house to transform it to the majesty it now exudes. We traveled from San Francisco to Boston, Canada to North Carolina in search of precious antiques to fill her halls and bring her back to what we thought she might have been in happier times.
HAUNTED HISTORY (Excerpts from iBattleboro Article)
When Marileen and Greg Waddell suspected their future Whitingham B & B, known to locals as the “Sawyer Mansion,” was being visited by the spirit world, they turned to Berkshire Paranormal Group for answers. Berkshire Paranormal Group is a North Adams, MA-based paranormal research group that has been investigating claims of hauntings for about five years.
The Waddells knew the history of the place before they bought it. The stately home was built by the Sawyer family, adjacent to the Sawyer Bentwood furniture factory that’s still owned by the family. The large, rambling Victorian was constructed on the site of the original, and more humble, family house.
The house remained in the Sawyer family until relatively recently, but its modern history is tainted by a sordid tale of sex, jealousy, and murder.
In 1985 the house was owned by Robert Sawyer. Living in the house with Sawyer were three other men, Christopher Fauber, David Platt, and Michael Guerrera. According to a Boston Globe account of the murder, on December 9, 1985, Fauber came home from work at the factory and somebody – one of the men – struck Fauber in the head with an iron pipe, crushing his skull. [His body was wrapped in plastic and taken to New Hampshire, where it was dymped over the bank of a highway rest area.] Although the relationships among the four men aren’t entirely clear, lovers’ jealousy has been suggested as the motive in
the slaying. Sawyer wasn’t implicated in the crime.
The house, already in the midst of decline, fell further into disrepair until it was purchased by the Waddells. The house also came with rumors of supernatural activity; an apparition of a woman had been seen in the house, and there was a report that a candlestick flew at a man who had been talking about tearing the house down. The Waddells dismissed the tales.
But it wasn’t long after the Waddells began work on the house that they noticed that things were a little odd at the house. Marileen Waddell’s mother, who says she doesn’t believe in ghosts or spirits, says she was overcome by the feeling of a menacing male presence in one of the rooms. She refused to enter.
Then Marileen Waddell had an encounter of her own. She was working in one of the rooms on a hot, sweltering, July day. Just as she was beginning to feel the heat, she heard a door, which opens onto an upstairs porch, fly open, and a cool breeze circulated through the room. Later she went to thank her husband for opening the door, only to discover that he hadn’t been in that part of the house the whole day. “That’s a solid door,” Waddell says. “You have to turn the knob and pull to open it. It wouldn’t open in a breeze.”
FOR SALE 745,000
6492 Vt Route 100, Whitingham, VT 05361
6 beds | 6 Full/2 Half baths | 4800 sqft | 3 acres
LINKS:
Listing Agent, Zillow, Realtor, Sawyer Mansion B and B Website, iBrattleboro Article,
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