The Old Lantern Inn and Barn

Specialties

We invite you to rediscover the charm of this rebuilt 1800’s barn. With the largest laminated maple dance floor in Vermont, the Old Lantern has seen hundreds of beautiful barn wedding receptions… a lot of dancing: line, ballroom, round and square… holiday parties and graduations… corporate retreats… as well as successful benefits. We are rapidly becoming one of the most popular wedding venues in Vermont. Also located on the same 10 acres is an 8 room Inn with beautiful views of Lake Champlain, nestled back in a maple grove… Close enough if you are attending an event at the Old Lantern, yet far enough away for a peaceful retreat or romantic getaway. The Old Lantern barn is available seven days a week, throughout the year. We are fortunate that the banquet hall is heated. You can plan business meetings, seminars and retreats around the Old Lantern’s spacious facilities. Since the purchase of the Old Lantern by Roland & Lisa Gaujac, he has operated it as a full service facility, pro

History

Established in 1960.

Built in 1960 from 3 barns from Jericho, Vermont circa 1800. It has always been a popular wedding venue, banquet hall, and dance hall barn style.

Meet the Business Owner

Roland G.

Business Owner

The Chef & owner’s specialties are Meditteranean cuisine and working closely with local Vermont farms. He is a graduate of the Grenoble Hotelry School in France. After a year in the Navy as chef to the Commadant, Roland worked as a chef at a bistro in downtown Lyon, and then as executive chef at a Club Med-​style resort in Senegal, West Africa, for five years and then moved to the the US. For eight years following, Chef Roland was a private chef to affluent households and in doing so expanded his knowledge of cuisine by working directly with the great chefs of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit and New York. He had unlimited access to all of the latest ethnic cuisine, while developing and maintaining a distinctive cuisine with his own personal style. He & his wife, Lisa, purchased the 1796 House — Roland’s Place in 1995 and then the Old Lantern Inn and Barn in 2006.