St. Moritz
4 addresses in St. Moritz, 1 of them written in full. The register holds 2 in Grand Addresses, 2 in Alpine Houses.
St. Moritz sells a season, not a view, and it is the only place on this roster that can name the day its season was invented. In the autumn of 1864 a hotelier at the Kulm wagered four English summer guests that they would find the Engadine sunny in December; they stayed until Easter, and the alpine winter began as a commercial fact rather than a fashion.
The consequence for this page is that the place has two founding houses and they are not interchangeable. The Kulm holds the bet and the primacy. The Palace, built thirty-two years later by the next generation of the same family, holds the social centre of the season. The register keeps the two apart, because a place with two first houses is exactly where a careless page would lend one of them the other's fact.
Nothing here holds lakefront. A public route circles the water without interruption, and the houses stand above it on a town street. The village does the work a resort's territory would do elsewhere, which is the condition this collection looks for.
The winter runs December to March, and the weeks that define it are Christmas, New Year and the February holidays. Several houses keep a separate summer season on a different staff and a different kitchen; where that is so, the record says it.