More pictures from Bothwell Lodge

I took this picture when we were at Bothwell last summer; the rest were taken this past weekend. There are thirty-one rooms in the lodge.

This picture looks down on 65 highway, near Sedalia.

A tube-type radio that actually still works. Of course, the sound quality leaves something to be desired.

A recliner chair. Lazyboy, it ain't.

Mr Bothwell kept bees, who made their hives in that space under the window on the sun porch. He'd remove the board that's off to retrieve the honey. In the foreground is a rollaway bed that he used to sleep on during hot summer weather.

Here you see a regular piano with an item scooted up to it that turned it into a player piano; move the thing back from the keyboard, and a real person could sit down and play.
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This was Mr. Bothwell's bedroom.

The Bothwell Lodge is a Missouri State Historic Site: Click HERE.

A surprise at the Bothwell Lodge

Cliff and I rode the motorcycle to the Bothwell Lodge today; it's a huge place three stories tall... four if you count the basement.


Speaking of the basement: The lodge had its own power plant until the forties when rural electricity was finally installed. The lights were direct-current.

That's the huge coal furnace; it really didn't look this color, but it was so dark I had to use flash.

As we passed through a small passageway toward the stairs out of the basement, I noticed what I thought was a rubber snake....

but it was real! A black snake about six feet long.