Our History

Welcome to the Carriage House Event Venue

While the Carriage House Event Venue is a modern building with the architectural craftsmanship, it will bring your hearts and minds back to the festive Victorian Era.

History of Carriage Houses— in the Victorian era (1837 – 1901)  Carriage Houses or Coach Houses were built to accommodate horse drawn carriages and related tack.  Carriage houses were traditionally built alongside an Inn, allowing carriage drivers overnight living quarters within the building if needed.

“The Inn To Smuggs” is an 1860’s Victorian era Inn that used to be the last house on the end of the road. The mountains were in wide array as no trees lined the fields that were ripe for farming or for grazing horses or other livestock.  The Inn was designed by a railroad magnate who was instrumental for the construction of the Lamoille County and Saint Johnsbury railroad.  The railroad began construction in December 1869 as part of the Vermont Division of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway to connect the Great Lakes with the seaport of Portland, Maine. Jeffersonville was deemed to be the “hub” for the main artery of the railroad system until later years when the railroad deemed the city of Saint Albans, Vermont served a more beneficial location for the operation of the system.

Of course the Inn and Carriage House remained as one of the most prominent locations in the town of Jeffersonville and to this day offers up the best six-mountain view you will find in the area.