Buck Hill Falls Inn and other haunted places in the Poconos (Monroe: chapel, new construction)

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by nkotb

FYI -- The not so quaint cafe was named --The Bluestone Room-- thats where I worked in the early sixties !!

My grandparents owned the Canadensis Hotel until about the mid sixties. On many occasions I was in the Bluestone Room. I had refreshments there. We could have even met?

However; most of my visits were not formal. When I caddied; we would sneak into the pool room after work. Then they would chase us out if they thought we were a problem for the guest. It was good they had large front windows on the game room - which were not too far above the sidewalk. Several times we jumped out the windows to escape security!

[FTaylo]

The Sous Chef's name was Henry.

Originally Posted by Wells5

I worked at the Buck Hill Inn one summer during college in the kitchen. The head chef at that time was Renee Mettler who was Swiss as was the sous chef whose name I can't remember. I worked my way up to vegetable cook by the end of the summer. This was a top notch operation, which turned out a superior product. There was a big labor turnover as I recall, but it was hard work and Renee was a tough but fair boss. If you didn't pull your weight or goofed off too much, you were shown the door. We lived in the men's dorm, which was OK and the kitchen staff got to eat whatever they wanted from that day's menu. The other boarding employees' food was different. I can't remember what I was paid, but I had no complaints at the time. I'm pretty sure that room and board were part of the deal

There were a lot of high class people who stayed at the hotel and also many large conferences and conventions. I remember one conference in particular. A group of high ranking officials from some US government department or agency came up from Washington. We prepared and served them an 8 course banquet that you would have had to see to appreciate.

I was sorry to see the Buck Hill close, but I guess that all good things must come to an end.

[stevej64]

I went to the auction when it closed down.

[fisheye]

stevej64,

How was the auction? Did you have any nifty finds or did the prices go too high?

[stevej64]

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No we did not we were there looking at a house and saw the sign.Beautiful area but HOA was way out of line.Today the HOA is over 10,000 a year

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Originally Posted by stevej64

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No we did not we were there looking at a house and saw the sign.Beautiful area but HOA was way out of line.Today the HOA is over 10,000 a year

I never thought that the HOA would be cheap. There is an awful lot of old wealth in the cottages surrounding the old Inn.

In the late 1950’s or early 1960’s I was shown a magnificent A-frame just up stream from the golf club house. It had huge beams jutting out of the hillside that supported a magnificent deck overlooking the stream. I was told, at that time, that it was either a Frank Lloyd Wright plan or modeled after one of his plans. It supposedly cost over a $100,000. Keep in mind that $20,000 was a lot of money to pay for a house back then. A friend’s father was a carpenter on the job. That whole area is marked private property and you cannot just sight see.

[stevej64]

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I see you have lived in the area a long time.My brother in law just sold his house on devil hole road in cresco.It was his vacation home.When he first moved in we went and bought some stone from a guy who called himself the blacksheep of the Price family.He was a real character told us the family history of the Prices.

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Originally Posted by stevej64

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I see you have lived in the area a long time.My brother in law just sold his house on devil hole road in cresco.It was his vacation home.When he first moved in we went and bought some stone from a guy who called himself the blacksheep of the Price family.He was a real character told us the family history of the Prices.

I have hunted on the state game lands off the Devil’s Hole Road. I also have gone to many yard and garage sales in that area.

I also knew some of the Prices. One Price owned an old open garbage dump back in the 1950’s and 1960’s. We used to go rat hunting at the dump. The rats were so thick that you could not see the garbage under them. That was the most fun I ever had hunting. Our guns go so hot from shooting that we were afraid to load another round.

Buck Hill also had it’s own dump. However; they were probably a better class of rats! I never heard of their dump as having any problems.

[stevej64]

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When you hunted on the game lands did you go back into the woods and see the remains of a old hotel?

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stevej64,

I used to know more about the old ruins. I cannot recall right now. I do think that it wasn’t a hotel. It did look like it had a huge fireplace (if I remember correctly).

The only thing I was really interested in were the pheasants that our game commission stocked!