It's always fun to find a vintage postcard featuring a tea room that has an unusual exterior, and this one definitely is not the typical tea room.
The back of the postcard, as you can see, tells me nothing, so I almost passed on this postcard, but I did love the fact it showed a tea room in an old grist mill. Was there anything I could learn about the place? Indeed yes! A little online searching led me to the website of The Captain Lord Mansion, an inn and spa in Kennebunkport, where the innkeeper, Rick Litchfield, recalled the old tea room. He said the restaurant opened in the forties and was owned by two generations of the Lombard Family, and it was an actual working grist mill that had been converted to a restaurant. "As you entered the restaurant, you could see the old grinding wheel and other machinery," he writes. "The dining room was bright and cheery and overlooked the river, providing a great view during the summer and fall. Of course, the restaurant was closed during the winter and early spring; there was no insulation or heat!" As I suspected, the tea room is no longer open, but it's apparently because it burned down in 1994 "under suspicious circumstances." Wow! Click
here to read more about the Old Grist Mill Tearoom and see a more modern photo of it.
I bet You'll get tons of viewers on this post. I found it very interesting.Now I'm going to read the link You provided.It could be a Tea mystery story :)
ReplyDeleteWould certainly have enjoyed taking tea in an Old Grist Mill overlooking the river! Loved the history... and the postcard!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting place - I visited the link you provided, that's quite a history. I would have enjoyed having tea there. Hope you have a nice weekend, Joanie
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely spot, and what a shame ithe building burned down.
ReplyDeleteI would have loved having tea in the Old Grist Mill. I have always been fascinated with that part of our history and sitting there sipping tea would have been quite extraordinary.
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