Middlebury ยท Champlain Valley: Middlebury
The Waybury Inn
John Foote's 1810 boarding house and tavern in East Middlebury, its exterior seen in TV's Newhart; all 12 rooms are upstairs, with no elevator.
- Built
- 1810Built 1810 (Wikipedia, NRHP 1983); the inn says John Foote built it as a boarding house and tavern two years before the War of 1812.
- Type
- Inn
- Rooms
- 12
- Area
- Champlain Valley: Middlebury
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
John Foote built a boarding house and tavern at the foot of a mountain pass in East Middlebury around 1810, expecting the village to grow around the Vermont Glass Factory, an iron forge and a woolen mill. Wikipedia calls it one of the oldest operating traveler’s accommodations in Vermont. Its exterior was used in the 1980s TV series Newhart. Three East Middlebury residents took it over in spring 2024.
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- No elevator
- No pets
- Address: 457 East Main Street, East Middlebury, VT 05740
Sources (3)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.