Formerly: Richardson's Tavern · Eagle Hotel · Woodstock Inn
Woodstock, Vermont · Founded 1793 · Building: 1968–1969
A Woodstock village inn with a tavern lineage dating to 1793, rebuilt as the present resort by Laurance Rockefeller in 1969.
Woodstock Inn & Resort traces a local hospitality lineage to Captain Israel Richardson's 1793 tavern in Woodstock. The present inn is not the early tavern or the later Victorian hotel: Laurance Rockefeller purchased the older Woodstock Inn in 1967, replaced it with a new resort building, and reopened it in 1969. Since 2008, the Woodstock Foundation has owned the inn as part of a broader community, conservation, and cultural portfolio.
Captain Israel Richardson establishes Richardson's Tavern in Woodstock, beginning the hospitality lineage later associated with the Woodstock Inn.
Source: Historic Hotels of America, "History of Woodstock Inn & Resort"
A Model T-powered continuous rope tow opens on Clint Gilbert's farm north of Woodstock. It is credited with inaugurating the rope-tow era in the United States.
Source: Vermont Historical Society, "The Early Days of Skiing, 1934"
Laurance Rockefeller purchases the Woodstock Inn and begins planning its replacement with a new modern resort.
Source: Woodstock Inn & Resort, "Our Story"; Historic Hotels of America, "History of Woodstock Inn & Resort"
Construction begins on a new Woodstock Inn building to replace the earlier hotel structure.
Source: Woodstock Inn & Resort, "Our Story"; historical accounts of the Rockefeller redevelopment
The present Woodstock Inn & Resort opens after Laurance Rockefeller's redevelopment.
Source: Woodstock Inn & Resort, "Our Story"; Michelin Guide, Woodstock Inn & Resort profile
The resort is gifted to the Woodstock Foundation, which also owns Billings Farm & Museum and supports community conservation, recreation, and cultural initiatives.
Source: Billings Farm & Museum, "Woodstock Inn & Resort"
Woodstock Inn & Resort continues operating as a year-round destination at 14 The Green in Woodstock.
Source: Town of Woodstock visitor listing, January 30, 2026
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A continuous rope tow powered by a Model T engine was installed on Clint Gilbert's farm north of Woodstock in January 1934. The Vermont Historical Society credits the machine with inaugurating the rope-tow era in the United States, while noting an earlier related installation in Québec.
The current resort building opened in 1969 after Laurance Rockefeller purchased and replaced the prior Woodstock Inn. The property has a 1793 tavern lineage, but the present building is a late-twentieth-century structure.
The first rope tow was installed on Clint Gilbert's farm north of Woodstock, not on the present Woodstock Inn & Resort property. The ski history is important local context but should not be presented as an inn facility.
Billings Farm & Museum states that the resort was gifted to the Woodstock Foundation in 2008. The Foundation also owns Billings Farm & Museum and supports community conservation, recreation, and cultural efforts.
The inn's hospitality lineage dates to Richardson's Tavern in 1793, but the current principal building opened in 1969. This audit did not verify uninterrupted hotel operations through every earlier building, ownership transition, and reconstruction.
The Woodstock Inn has operated continuously in the same historic building since 1793.
The inn traces a hospitality lineage to 1793, but the present resort building opened in 1969 after Laurance Rockefeller replaced the prior Woodstock Inn. This audit did not establish uninterrupted operation across every earlier building and ownership change.
Source: Historic Hotels of America, "History of Woodstock Inn & Resort"; Woodstock Inn & Resort, "Our Story"
The first U.S. ski rope tow was a Woodstock Inn facility.
The 1934 Model T-powered rope tow was installed on Clint Gilbert's farm north of Woodstock. It is a key part of local ski history but was not on the present resort property.
Source: Vermont Historical Society, "The Early Days of Skiing, 1934"
Woodstock Inn & Resort is still family-run by the Rockefeller family.
Laurance Rockefeller redeveloped the inn in the late 1960s, but the resort was gifted to the Woodstock Foundation in 2008. This audit found Foundation ownership, not evidence of present Rockefeller-family operation.
Source: Billings Farm & Museum, "Woodstock Inn & Resort"
The Woodstock Inn has endured because its current form was created as part of a larger preservation vision for Woodstock rather than as a stand-alone historic building. Laurance and Mary Rockefeller reshaped the property into a modern village resort in the late 1960s, and the Woodstock Foundation received it as a gift in 2008. Its ownership alongside Billings Farm & Museum links the inn to a broader nonprofit commitment to local conservation, recreation, and culture.
The hospitality lineage dates to Richardson's Tavern in 1793, but the present Woodstock Inn & Resort building was constructed in 1968–1969. Laurance Rockefeller purchased the earlier inn in 1967, replaced it, and opened the current resort in 1969.
The Woodstock Foundation owns Woodstock Inn & Resort. Billings Farm & Museum says the resort was gifted to the Foundation in 2008; the Foundation also owns Billings Farm & Museum and supports local conservation, recreation, and cultural efforts.
No. The 1934 Model T-powered rope tow credited with beginning the U.S. rope-tow era operated on Clint Gilbert's farm north of Woodstock, not at the present Woodstock Inn & Resort. It is important local ski history, but it was not an inn facility.
No. The inn traces its local hospitality history to a 1793 tavern, but the current principal resort building opened in 1969 after Laurance Rockefeller replaced the previous Woodstock Inn.
14 The Green, Woodstock, VT 05091
(802) 457-1100
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