Juniper Hill Farm-Maxwell Evarts House, Colonial Revival mansion in Windsor, Vermont.
Juniper Hill Farm-Maxwell Evarts House is a white clapboard Colonial Revival mansion of 1902 on a hill northwest of Windsor village. Its U-shaped frame has a dormered hip roof, two brick chimneys, green-shuttered windows and a columned entrance portico with a second-floor balcony.
Maxwell Evarts, a New York lawyer involved with the Union Pacific Railroad, built the house in 1902 on land his father William M. Evarts had assembled. He lived here until his death in 1913, hosting Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The family kept it until 1944, and it was listed on the National Register in 1988.
The house was long run by the Xaverian Brothers, who bought it in 1961 and kept it for 20 years as the Ryken Center retreat. Later owners used it as the Holy Family Retreat House, an inn, a restaurant and a nursing home.
The estate is reached by a winding drive on the north side of Juniper Hill Road, northwest of Windsor's main village. The main house faces terraced landscaping to the north, with its entrance on the southern facade. It has operated as the Windsor Mansion Inn since 2016.
The open colonnade of fluted Doric columns once ran across the whole southern facade under an arbor trellis; both were later removed, leaving only a projecting section before the entrance. The doorway keeps its sidelights and semi-oval transom.
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