Bald Peak Colony Club Is Scheduled to Begin a Roughly $30 Million Renovation of Its 1921 Clubhouse on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
The private lakeside club in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, is scheduled to start work this month on its 1921 Colonial Revival clubhouse. Members will dine in tents and food truck trailers through the 2027 season, and the house is set to reopen in spring 2028.
Bald Peak Colony Club, the private club on the northeast shore of Lake Winnipesaukee in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, is scheduled to begin a roughly $30 million clubwide renovation centered on its 1921 Colonial Revival clubhouse this month, according to Club + Resort Chef. TMS Architects & Interiors of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is the architect. The work is expected to run about 18 months. Members will dine in tents and food truck trailers through the 2027 season, and the house is scheduled to reopen in spring 2028.
The club looks out on the Belknap and Ossipee mountain ranges and describes itself as the only lakeside private country club in New Hampshire, set on about 1,000 acres that include a Donald Ross course. Thomas Gustave Plant founded the club after building his estate on the nearby Ossipee Mountain slopes, and the club opened on August 1, 1921. The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources lists the club on the National Register of Historic Places as a distinct example of a rural 1920s country club.
Today the clubhouse is a symmetrical, two-and-a-half-story house with a gabled entry pavilion, a full-width veranda used for seating and dining, and a practice putting green set inside the circular drive out front. Reception, reading, game, and entertaining rooms occupy the first floor. Guest bedrooms sit above.
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The Moultonborough Planning Board approved the site plan 8 to 0 on April 22, 2026. The plan renovates and expands the clubhouse for dining, events, and lodging "to improve functionality while preserving architectural character," increasing its net footprint by 5,282 square feet and its gross floor area by 6,696 square feet. A new two-story building called the 1921 Cottage, about 5,800 square feet, will rise southeast of the clubhouse and move offices, equipment storage, bathrooms, and mechanical systems out of the old house. An existing 920-square-foot bungalow near the tennis courts will be relocated.
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The addition steps down the slope so that its roof peak sits 9.45 feet below the existing clubhouse peak, according to zoning board minutes. A historical consultant was retained so the new work would stay consistent with the 1921 house. Membership will not increase, and the net number of guest rooms will not change, though some rooms will be combined and others split. Michael Cerbone presented the project for TMS Architects & Interiors, and Bryan Walsh of Verdantas, the civil engineer, presented the site plan.
The renovation also enlarges the kitchen footprint. Executive Chef Mark Brown, CEC, AAC, told Club + Resort Chef he has worked on several club renovations but "nothing quite as ground-up as this one." Dining shifts to the tents and trailers from Memorial Day to Columbus Day 2027. When the house reopens, Brown's office becomes a showcase, a corner room with a high-top seating six, open to members and looking over the banquet and a la carte kitchens. "It'll be an activity, kind of a dinner and a show," he said.
The project follows a membership vote to completely renovate the historic clubhouse, which New Hampshire Golf reported in September 2025. The Robert H. Elliott Mid-Amateur Championship at Bald Peak was moved from October 2026 to October 4 to 6, 2028, so players can see the finished project. "We are thrilled to share our completed renovation with the participants in 2028," said general manager Chris Wyles.
Old clubhouses are drawing fresh attention elsewhere, from Medinah, whose clubhouse is turning 100, to Moselem Springs in Pennsylvania, a northeastern private club putting money into its existing house. At Bald Peak, the house is the point. The 1921 clubhouse holds much of what the National Register recognized here: a rural 1920s country club arranged around a veranda for dining, a putting green inside the front drive, and guest rooms upstairs. With offices and mechanical systems moving to the new cottage, and the addition kept below the old roofline, that house remains the face of the club.
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