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Kutsher and his wife Helen (née Wasser) operated the hotels, with Helen serving as the head of reservations and doyenne of the resort. The two ran the hotel until Milton's death in 1998, at which point his son Mark took over management of the hotel.
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In the 1950s, other hotels were focused on building indoor pools for their guests. Milton
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Kutsher started the Kutsher's Brothers Farm House in 1907 and began expanding in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, at the request of his aunt Rebecca, Milton Kutsher took over the hotel. He oversaw the hotel's significant expansion from the 1950s to the 1980s, which created a premiere
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million. The new owners started to demolish the hotel. During the demolition it was discovered that the ground was contaminated. The authorities were called in and told them that nothing could be built there until it was cleaned up. Leaving part of the building there, they constructed a health and
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to develop an on-site casino. Kutsher's sent a letter to its long-time guests in
November 2007 informing them there would be no availability for the coming summer, and Kutsher's would be closed for renovations. In late winter, early spring 2008, the Kutsher family entered into an option agreement
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