Come enjoy our traditional

Finnish Christmas Eve Dinner

December 24, 2011

expertly prepared by our new Chef Guilian Jones and Innkeeper Ari T. Nikki.  The menu is inspired by Ari’s family recipes and adds a special international flavor to the holiday season from the land that claims Santa Claus as his official homeland – Finland!  Although the northern lights may not be present Juniper Hill’s Christmas Eve dinner is sure to please!  Please go to our website to see the delicious menus for all the events we are hosting!

 
Price: $59 pp    (beverages, tax & gratuity additional)

Ask for our special three night holiday room night packages when you call!

Phone: 802-674 5273 

email: innkeeper@me.com

Joulupöytä on Katettu

Juniper Hill Inn

Windsor, VT 05089

Tervetuloa viettämään perinteistä suomalaista

Joulu Illallista Juniper Hill Inn : issä.

Ruokalista sisaltää Arin perheen reseptejä Karjalasta ja Viipurista seka amerikkalaisia joulu herkkuja, jotka valmistaa pää kokkimme Guilian Jones. Emme ehkä voi luvata revontulia, mutta joulukoristeltu kartano, takka tuli ja toivottavasti lumi penkareet vievät meidät suomalaisen joulun tunnelmaan.
Suomalainen illalinen tulee sisältämää suolalohta, rosollia, koti suolattu kinkku, imelletty perunalaatikko, lanttulaatikko, porkkanalaatikko ja jälkiruoka luumuista – melkein unohtui uunissa haudottu hapankaali.
Illallinen: $59 ( ei sisällä juomia, veroja tai tarjoilupalkkiota )
Tiedustele myös majoitus ja illallis paketteja.

Tel: 212-757 5744

email: innkeeper@juniperhillinn.com

 The Ultimate New Year’s Eve Celebration 2011

at

 Juniper Hill Inn

Windsor, VT 05089

• Featuring the East Bay Jazz Ensemble—dance the night away to swing, ballroom and the standards.
• Five Course Dinner (menu tba)
• Midnight Champagne Toast
• Dessert Buffet

 Celebrate three ways:

1. Three-night lodging package and New Year’s Eve Celebration for two. Starting at $990.
2. Dinner & Dancing Celebration only – $225 per person including five course dinner, dancing, silent auction, door prizes and dessert buffet with champagne toast at midnight!
3. Dancing & Dessert/Champagne only (9:30 pm to 12:30 am) – $95 per person including dancing, silent auction, door prizes, dessert buffet and champagne toast at midnight!

Reservations: 802-674 5273 or email:  juniperhillinn@me.com

Woodstock is Open for Business! 

The weather report looks fantastic for the upcoming Columbus Day Weekend in Vermont.

Stroll our village, enjoy the sun, marvel at the fall colors. 

Click here for a sample of all that the area has to offer this weekend, for more events please visit our web site, 

I don’t even know where to begin when starting to share the story of Leah and Lorraine except to say that we were completely honoured to meet these incredible women and capture their wedding story. We first met via email over a year ago and a few weeks later we met for tea in Malibu, California. They drove up from their home in San Diego to chat with us about their upcoming destination wedding. We became instant friends! Over the next 12 months we met via Skype to keep up to date on their wedding planning. They had already done a lot of research in order to choose the perfect wedding location and fell completely in love with Juniper Hill Inn in Vermont. Yes, it was on the opposite side of the country! They wanted something quaint, beautiful and somewhat rustic. The Inn, located in Windsor, Vermont, was absolutely perfect! More that 50 guests came to celebrate with them from all across the country. Their family and friends treated Us like family from the moment we arrived at the Welcome BBQ on Friday evening. We loved their personalized vows, all the little details that they had worked on themselves to add touches of their personalities and their beloved dogs to their special day, the quiet whispers between them and how their father-daughter dance turned into a big circle of immediate family members from both sides all joined together on the outdoor patio. There were so many amazing moments to capture. The Inn sits atop a mountain with the most breathtaking views. It was simply impossible to fit every amazing moment of their story into a 4 minute hightlight, but we think this piece really sums it up perfectly! Leah and Lorraine, we wish you so much love and a lifetime of happiness as Mrs. and Mrs. **Special thanks to Joelle of East Hill Events and Robert Dean, owner of Juniper Hill Inn, everything was fabulous and your dedication to perfection was evident in every single detail!

Juniper Hill Inn is 20 min away from Woodstock and Quechee.

Hi Leaves are starting to turn, our Sugarbush Farm road has been completely rebuilt and we are excited that we will see lots of visitors in the next month. We appreciate all the e mails and calls folks have taken the time to send and the phone calls that many of made to us to check on road conditions and best way to get here. All roads listed below are in fine condition for regular 2 wheel drive cars.

From Woodstock: Rt 12 north 4/10 mile , turn on to Old River Road ( same road Billings is on ). Continue on Old River Road when it turns from blacktop to gravel. At fork in road take a left on to High Pastures Road ( Sugarbush sign there) and follow that road to Sugarbush Farm road. 10 minutes from Billings to Sugarbush

From White River, I 89 etc: From rt 4 7/10th mile from exit, take Quechee Main St at Fat Hat corner, Go through Quechee ( Simon Pearce now open both for sales and restaurant) through the village, continue on Quechee Main st by the golf course, and then take a right at Hillside road ( Sugarbush Sign there ) and follow to Sugarbush Farm Road. 10 minutes from interstate to Sugarbush Farm.

From Quechee gorge : Take Dewey’s Mill Road, almost across from visitors center, which brings you to Quechee Main St- take left and follow above directions.

Our 15 kinds of cheese, 4 grades of maple syrup and about 30 jars of jam, spreads and mustards are out for sampling. Jerry the baby calf is looking forward to lots of attention!

Vermont Foliage Report: Early Color Tinges the Hillsides

MONTPELIER, Vt. – The stage is set for a beautiful foliage season as early fall color begins to emerge across Vermont’s higher elevations and low-lying areas.

With the current forecast calling for cool nights through the weekend and the combination of adequate soil moisture and healthy green leaves, Vermont foresters are predicting an excellent fall season. In the early stages of fall foliage, the best color can generally be found in higher elevations, the northern sections of the state, and in low-lying areas where red maples are the early sentinels of the seasonal change.

“The cool nights that are in the forecast may pop a little more color our way by the end of the week,” says Ginger Anderson, Chief of Forest Management for the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Early morning temperatures are forecasted to dip into the upper 30s this week.

Enjoy your stay!

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Finlayson

Woodstock Area Chamber of Commerce
woodstockvt.com

802-457-3555

Our presidential West Wing can be rented out as 3 bedroom suite with sitting area and public bathroom for your guest to use privately.

The Presidential Suite was redesigned by Rose Ann Humphrey, of Burlington Vermont,  for the 2011 New England “Living” Show House” with later additions by Robert Lewis Dean, II  and Ari T Nikki.  The entire three bedroom Suite with a Living/Dining Room combination rents for $850 and is very private.  Guests renting the Presidential Suite may dine in their suite with breakfast delivered at a pre-designated time or they may join other guests in the main dining room.  The room size bathroom in President Teddy Roosevelt’s Room was from Vintage Tub.  President Coolidge’s Room features a large balcony overlooking forest and gardens.

This morning Vermont public radio - you can listen to it by this link –  featured the New England Living Show House. Susan Keese visited the Inn two weeks ago to interview Robert and saw the ingredible Show House by Eileen Patterson, Dawn McLaughlin, Eleanor Shepard, Gayle Lipman, Lois Bromley-Ellison and Rose Ann Humphrey.

Come experience the ultimate fall foliage Vermont vacation in on of New England’s most historic inns, the Juniper Hill Inn located in the historic “Birthplace of Vermont” Windsor.  This charming yet elegant inn is filled with antiques, fine art and comfortable furniture that will take you back in time yet caress your soul with an authentic experience true to the Vermont vernacular.

See the amazing changing of the leaves from your own mountain top and see the colors intensify daily.  Bring your easel or camera, as artists have done for centuries and experience one of the wonders of the world in your own private oasis.

Your Vermont vacation would not be complete with delectable farm to table cuisine and you will not be disappointed with the culinary gifts of our co-chef’s, Lyda Lemire and innkeeper Robert L. Dean, II.  So good; in fact, that Rachel Ray and The Traveling Gourmand have both featured us and exclaimed about our delectable food.  All guests are treated to a delicious cooked to order country breakfast each morning but there are very limited reservations available for dinner so make your reservations early!  Being a restaurant close to Woodstock, Vermont and Hanover , New Hampshire fills our tables quickly as people include us on their fall foliage vacation itinerary.

Guests at Juniper Hill Inn can also do some exciting things during their Vermont vacation such as: fish with legendary fishing guide, John Marshall of River Excitement,  take a hot air balloon ride with Balloons of Vermont or tour Simon Pearce Glass Blowing or the Harpoon Brewery.  Juniper Hill Inn guests also can visit the Constitution House, the American Precision Museum, the Longest Covered Bridge (antique) in the United States or the beautiful home of famed American Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a National Park.

So much to do or do nothing at all but enjoy the inn, our manicured grounds or Paradise Park which offers our guests five and one half miles of walking trails in the largest in-town wilderness preserve in the State of Vermont!  Come relax and enjoy a romantic Vermont country inn as it was intended to be – unspoiled, tranquil away from it all and just minutes to everything you would want to do.  Juniper Hill Inn is your country home without the hassle.

We are lucky that Ashley Fisher is showing Buster – a bug - in dog shows this summer as we are in the middle of the Show House programs and constraction.

We miss very much Buster but he seems to have good time having a lot of attention.

His showing shedule is:

June 26; Staten Island, NY
Staten Island Kennel Club, Inc. – Sunday June 26, 2011

College of Staten Island
2800 Victory Blvd
Staten Island, NY
http://www.infodog.com/clubs/2011173303.htm

June 30- July 2; Bainbridge, NY
http://www.raudogshows.com/html/upcoming-shows.html

July 3; Whitney Point, NY (near Bainbridge I believe)http://www.infodog.com/prm/4004/prm4004.pdf

July 6-10; W. Springfield, MA

http://www.infodog.com/panels/ma.htm
July 14-17; Tunbridge, VT

http://www.woodstockdogclub.org/

The owners of an historic inn in Windsor are in the process of giving it a facelift, and at the same time raising cash for local charities.

Windsor is the birthplace of Vermont. Walking downtown — you’re surrounded by the past.

History yes, but Robert Dean says in the present, businesses are struggling. “We decided why don’t we put the welcome center for the show house downtown, exposing all the other wonderful merchants and restaurants,” he said.

Dean is the co-chair for a new project called the New England Living Show House. It’s a home and garden tour that starts downtown, so people get a taste of the area and businesses get a boost. “We’re believing we’ll have over 30-thousand people visit the show time offices and therefore the entire community,” Dean said.

But the big show is just up the hill, a mile away. The main attraction is the Juniper Hill Inn, built in 1901 and sitting on the highest point in Windsor. It’s catered to many famous people, including artists actors and even presidents.

“It’s really one of the only gilded age mansions in Vermont.” Dean said.

The Inn is currently being renovated and re-decorated by designers from all over the U.S. Each one has a certain part of the house they’re assigned to.

Eleanor Shepard has an interior design business in Quechee and is one of 12 designers donating their time. “My focus for my room is that everything is local,” she said.

Each room has a different feel. Some have a Presidential flair, including one where Calvin Coolidge and Teddy Roosevelt stayed. Others take a modern approach.

“It was combo of show house and living show house and thinking of the people that are actually going to be staying here,” Shepard said.

When it’s completed, people will pay 25-dollars for a tour. There will also be cooking classes and other events to draw people to the Inn.

“It’s not just about completing the interior design, but how to enjoy that,” Dean said.

While the Inn gets a facelift, local charities will also benefit from ticket sales and donations and Robert Dean has an ambitious fundraising goal of one million dollars.

Raising money and polishing up a part of the town, so this place full of history can shine.

Gina Bullard – WCAX News

Come enjoy your Vermont vacation in one of New England’s most historic inns and a Vermont B&B that you will not soon forget!  When looking to book your romantic vacation the region that surrounds Juniper Hill inn will make your special someone feel truly special.  This picture was taken just after our first snow fall and last night we received another two feet with more on the way.  If your looking to ski we are close to Suicide Six, Okemo Mountain Resort and just a bit further is Killington Ski Mountain.  After a day of skiing you will come home to the award winning, friendly, beautifully appointed Juniper Hill Inn and enjoy the evening in front of the wood burning fireplace.