This quaint room is on the Second floor of the Main House and features one Double bed, large windows on two sides, private bath with shower, hair dryer, color TV with remote, CD player and clock radio, telephone with voicemail and automated wake-up service, and wireless B Internet.    The Hospitality Refreshment table is nearby.

Helen was the eldest daughter of James and Lena Hartness.  She married Ralph Flanders, president of Jones & Lamson and Senator of Vermont. 

Helen became famous for her work in cataloging American folk songs and ballads. The Hartness House is site of her Vermont Register of Historical Places commerating her work. The Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College houses an archive of New England folk song and folklife materials.  Begun in 1930 by Helen Hartness Flanders of Springfield, Vermont, it was given to Middlebury College in 1941.

Housed in Special Collections in the Main Library the Flanders Collection consists of field recordings on cylinder, disc and tape of traditional song and dance music recorded in all the New England States between 1930 and 1966. Other materials in the collection includes photographs, manuscripts, letters, broadsides, books and journals.