La Purísima Concepción Los Flores Adobe Hill House Ell End of the Table << >> Hill House Ell South Elevation Restoration Project This important dependency is being restored by its owner Richard B. Middleton With the assistance of The State of Vermont, Division for Historic Preservation Circa 1840, Ira Hill built a substantial stone structure around an earlier timber building (perhaps the 'cider mill' of local memory) and extended it to link the whole to his house. Through the rest of the nineteenth century the new complex supported the varied Hill family enterprises, housing at various times: stables, apple storage, barrel making, staff quarters, a post office, a tavern, a restaurant and hotel rooms. Josie and Mattie Duba, who had operated the Hill House Hotel for an aging Henry Hill, took over the property in the nineteen twenties and continued to run the well known local establishment into the nineteen fifties. The restoration plan was prepared by Montreal architect, Glenn Bydwell. The timber framing is being reconstructed by Jan Lewandoski, Greensboro Bend, Vermont. The masonry restoration is being carried out by Mark Mendel and the crew of Monterey Masonry, Sheffield, Massachusetts. Additional Champlain limestone was quarried by Winton Patnode & William Deo in the Tennessee Marble Company quarry on Isle la Motte. The dismantling of deteriorated structure, shoring of the stone walls and the re-roofing of the new timber structure is being handled by the father and sons team of Noble Construction, Isle la Motte, Vermont. The restoration of windows and millwork is being undertaken with the help of Jeff Fellinger, Burlington, Vermont.