A hotel has occupied this site on the Square since 1817, and after fires destroyed it, the building was rebuilt four times. It was first named Hotel Windham in 1902 and offered lodging and entertainment, later hosting snow-train tourists as Vermont’s ski slopes opened in the 20th century. Designed by the Boston firm of Harper & West, the current Hotel Windham is a Georgian Revival-style building erected in 1933 to replace the hotel that burned the year before, and it includes a distinctive 1851 Vermont Valley Railroad tunnel beneath the ballroom. The hotel was restored in 2008-2010. In 1973, it reopened as Andrews Inn under a local resident whose parents had owned the property, and with its bar, disco, and hotel it became a destination for tourists and locals involved in the emerging gay pride movement. Sold in 1979 to a same-sex couple, it continued openly welcoming gays and lesbians when few such places existed in Vermont. Although local response was mixed, guests and residents often came together there as attitudes toward the LGBT community evolved, and Andrews Inn remained a gathering place for gay and lesbian people, their families, and allies for more than a decade before closing on April 1, 1984.