Bed and Breakfasts, Inns, Hotels, and Lodging in Bouckville, New York:

The building itself was built between 1850 and 1851 by James Coolidge according to most accounts, including Mrs. Hammond's "History of Madison County." Coolidge was faced with a first class dilemma, and possessed the ingenuity to solve it. The originally planned structure, an octagon 24 feet to a side, would never fit on the pie shaped lot located at the intersection of Cherry Valley Turnpike and the Chenango Canal. The end result, with four sides facing the two thoroughfares, and two more sides in a wedge shape at the rear solved the problem and was the most artistic and practical use of . . .