Point Salubrious Historic District

Point Salubrious Historic District is a small group of farm and resort buildings on the western shore of a peninsula near Chaumont, in the town of Lyme. It includes an early farmhouse later enlarged as the boarding house known as The Lodge, a c.1892 farmhouse called Windemere, five hip-roofed seasonal bungalows from 1908 to 1925, and several outbuildings and pumphouses. The land began as the farm of Nathaniel Warner, who settled the Point in 1815 and built his house around 1820. In 1875 his grandson Alvah Warner found a mineral spring on the property, which led to a summer boardinghouse in 1878 and later a private club for Watertown families. The district was listed for its architecture. It preserves Lyme's only seasonal boarding house, its only high-style 1890s farmhouse, and its only concentration of early twentieth century bungalows, which show the move from agriculture to a resort economy.