The residence owned by Hollywood screen legend Bette Davis in the White Mountains of New Hampshire called as Butternut Cottage and Butternut Lodge is open for rentals. The two houses are located on the Sugar Hill farm.
After Bette Davis finished filming two movies in 1939, she returned to her native New England to take a much-needed break. She stopped at an Inn in Franconia, New Hampshire, called Peckett’s-on-Sugar-Hill, and fell in love, Hooked on Houses wrote.
In the house, it is where Bette Davis began her two relationships with a man who became her second husband and to another man who lives on a land high up on Sugar Hill dubbed Butternut.
When Davis took a break from filming in 1939, she went back to New England and stopped at the Peckett’s-on-Sugar-Hill Inn in Franconia, New Hampshire where she fell in love with Arthur Farnsworth. He is the assistant manager at the inn and the two got married in 1940. But died early due to a bad fall.
The house where Davis lived is a cottage with five fireplaces- two are found in the main dining and living area while the other three are seen in every bedroom of the house. The house looked beautiful with wide plank pine floors and rustic beams.
But when Farny died, Bette seldom visits the cottage and eventually sold it. It went from different owners and was then abandoned where raccoons and squirrels live.
When real estate broker Michael O’Dwyer from Stony Brook, N.Y., heard about Butternut, he bought the house for $180,000 which was already 150-year-old that time. He restored the house and added original pieces as well different Davis memorabilia, NH Magazine reported.
Since the house was restored, it already have modern style kind of living but still offers the character of the place during Davis' time. It has attractive country accessories, antiques, and artworks. Its main floor has beamed ceilings, pine floors, two grand fireplaces, four picture windows, full bath and an enclosed porch.
