What Happened to Juniper Hill Inn After Hotel Hell? (Windsor, VT)
Hotel Hell, Season 1 Windsor, Vermont
Current status
As of October 2026, Juniper Hill Inn has closed — confirmed via vermontbiz.com, July 31, 2014.
What the source shows: Vermont Business Magazine reported on July 31, 2014 that Juniper Hill Inn at 153 Pembroke Road was headed to a foreclosure auction on August 22, 2014, and the Valley News reported on March 23, 2019 that the property, previously Juniper Hill Inn, had been in foreclosure before a new owner bought and renovated it as the Windsor Mansion Inn. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 1, Episode 1
- Aired
- Address 153 Pembroke Rd, Windsor, VT 05089
- Website windsormansion.com
- Show map
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What happened after Hotel Hell?
Part 1 — Season 1, Episode 1 Aired
Juniper Hill Inn in Windsor, Vermont, was the property featured in Hotel Hell's series premiere, 'Part One,' which aired 2012-08-13. According to Wikipedia, the building is a Colonial Revival mansion built in 1902 by New York attorney Maxwell Evarts, who hosted two U.S. presidents at the estate; the property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Wikipedia describes a variety of commercial uses at the mansion following the 1936 death of Evarts's son, with the estate operating under different owners and names over the following decades, including as Juniper Hill Inn at the time of the Hotel Hell episode.
The inn's business ended in foreclosure: Vermont Business Magazine reported that the property was scheduled for a foreclosure auction on August 22, 2014, and according to Wikipedia, new owners renovated the mansion and opened it in 2016 as a different business, the Windsor Mansion Inn. The Windsor Mansion Inn's website, windsormansion.com, checked 2026-09-09, lists sixteen rooms and demi-suites, each with a private bath, and describes the estate as the largest operating Colonial Revival mansion in the United States. The site carried a 2026 copyright notice and listed an active reservation phone line, (802) 674-4112, along with pages covering weddings and events, amenities, and area attractions. The inn's current listed address is 153 Pembroke Rd, Windsor, VT 05089. The site also linked to a Google Business profile and a Pinterest page for the property, according to the 2026-09-09 site check.
Part 2 — Season 1, Episode 2 Aired
Windsor, Vermont's Juniper Hill Inn returned for the second half of Hotel Hell's two-part series premiere, 'Part Two,' which aired 2012-08-14, one day after 'Part One' introduced the property. The episode continued the show's visit to the historic estate, built in 1902 by New York attorney Maxwell Evarts as a Colonial Revival mansion, according to Wikipedia; Evarts is described by Wikipedia as having hosted two U.S. presidents at the property, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Wikipedia's history of the estate, revised 2026-09-06, notes a succession of commercial uses following the 1936 death of Evarts's son, with the inn operating under the Juniper Hill name at the time the two-part premiere aired.
The same Wikipedia article records that the inn's business ended in bankruptcy and a 2014 tax sale, after which new owners renovated the mansion and opened it in 2016 as a different business, the Windsor Mansion Inn, which takes reservations according to the operator's website, windsormansion.com, checked 2026-09-09. That site lists sixteen rooms and demi-suites at 153 Pembroke Rd, Windsor, VT, each with a private bath, and provides a working phone line, (802) 674-4112, for booking weddings, events, and overnight stays. The listing also describes the mansion as the largest operating example of Colonial Revival architecture in the United States, according to the site, with additional pages for amenities, local attractions, and special-event inquiries.
The episodes
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Ep 3Cambridge Hotel
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Ep 5River Rock Inn
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Sources we checked
- windsormansion.com http://windsormansion.com/
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper_Hill_Farm-Maxwell_Evarts_House
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