Mount Washington Hotel, New Hampshire

The Mount Washington Hotel is one of the grand resort hotels of the Victorian era, built to create a social space for urbanites on summer vacation in the scenic wilderness. It opened in 1902, and closed in 1942, after which it was bought by a group from Boston, and hosted the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference in 1944, which establish the World Bank, and other formative financial infrastructures of the post war world. The hotel was seasonal, always closing in the winter, until 1999, after a major renovation. In 2009, a new spa and conference center opened. In 2015 it was purchased by the Omni Hotels and Resorts Group.