MOUNTAIN LIFE - Blue Mountains | Spring 2018

80 ML BLUE SPRING 2018 words :: Ned Morgan photos :: Nolan Dubeau All older homes hold layers of history—some visible to all, and others known only to the owners. Certain homes hold more layers than others. And some are overflowing repositories where every square foot holds messages from the past. The house Blue Mountain Resort founder Jozo Weider built in 1968 is one such repository. Sadly, Jozo Weider savoured his landhaus —Austrian for "country home"—for just three years before his death in a car accident in 1971 at the age of 64. In my view, Jozo built the house not as a symbol of personal success but as a beloved showpiece of the central European mountain culture he had left behind when he and his wife Helena and infant son George fled Czechoslovakia in 1938 as political refugees. And though his time in the home was short, Jozo and his world is embedded in every fibre of the structure. He hired fellow expatriates—skilled artisans, metalworkers and masons—who all left their own stamp on the project. George Weider, who MOUNTAIN HOME WEIDER HAUS THE EARLY HISTORY OF BLUE MOUNTAIN RESORT IS EMBEDDED IN THIS LANDHAUS –STYLE HOME