This is the last building to be featured on the Bread Loaf Campus! For more early history and context of the complex, check out the post on the Bread Loaf Inn. By 1900, owner Joseph Battell’s enterprise exceeded the capacity of the original inn, and cottages were added to accommodate more guests visiting his new permanent home in the mountains of Ripton, Vermont. Special friends who summered regularly at Bread Loaf purchased lots with water and sewage rights, and with Battell’s assistance, built their own family cottages to spend their summers. This is Treman Cottage, a shingled beauty which appears to have been built for a friend (though I am not sure who), and has since become the faculty cottage on the campus. As we wrap up this series, here is an interesting fact about the mountain campus: All buildings here that are painted the ochre color were built during Mr. Battell’s lifetime (by 1915), with later buildings painted white.
Buildings of New England 
I may be able to shed some light on the Treman Cottage. I came across an article in a July 1897 edition of the Middlebury Register showing my great grandmother, Mary Agnes Bott, had stayed at the Bread Loaf Inn. (Mary Agnes’ father, Arthur Bott, had taught German and music at Middlebury Female Seminary.) Mary Agnes went on to marry Charles E. Treman, so I suspect the cottage is connected to this couple.
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I just noticed the circa date of the cottage. Mary Agnes Bott and Charles Treman didn’t marry until 1900, so perhaps he was staying in the Treman Cottage during her 1897 visit to the Bread Loaf?!
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It is definitely possible! The date is just an estimate based on known information. Thank you for this added info!
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