The Horse Barn at the former King George School in Sutton
A decade ago, Eric Hudson and his maintenance staff kept the grounds of the King George School in Sutton immaculate: lawns and gardens manicured, walkways shoveled and swept, fences regularly painted white. After all, the affluent and mostly out-of-state parents whose high-school-age kids attended the therapeutic boarding school in the Northeast Kingdom paid hefty tuitions on par with those at many elite private colleges.
These days, Hudson shows prospective buyers around the place; the 300-acre campus with sweeping vistas of the Green and White mountains has been on the market for almost a decade. Hudson is the sole caretaker and doesn't have much else to do at the shuttered school. One of his jobs is to keep the furnace running in the education building, aka "Eddy." Otherwise, the radiant floor heating pipes would freeze and buckle the foundation.