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Balsam Cottage has been in our family for 3 generations, and our family has been a part of the Croft Beach community since the 1920s, when all of these beach cottages were not only seasonal, but also family or married couple rentals. Our family has made the choice to honor the heritage of this amazing place and keep our cottage seasonal, and fairly original to our grandparents' time though we have updated plumbing, wiring and now have internet service. The living room section of our cottage is older than the late 1890s, the time estimated from photos of when it was cut in half and dragged across the ice and repurposed from it's former service as the employee lodge for the casino at Blodgett's Landing. The original site of the casino is now the "Casino Beach" area of the Landing, and the casino itself was still standing though unused in the 1970s. You will see the marks left by the hand sawyers on the boards in between the open studs of our living room. We estimate the master bedroom, dining room and kitchen were added just after the lodge section arrived on Croft Beach, and later the second floor bedrooms and wash stand in between were added up above. Our grandfather noted that when he and my grandmother started summering at Croft Beach in 1926, the year of their marriage, though they did not stay in Balsam it did have the second floor at that time. The majority of our renters return year after year, and have been with us for many years doing weekly rentals. It's a place to slow down, unwind, relax, and focus on family and one of the most historic, beautiful, and carefully preserved lakes in New Hampshire - Lake Sunapee.