roadside redux
aware that the restaurant and bar
had a grand, even international
reputation among locals and
visitors alike—a standing he
simply cannot fail to match.
Seesaw’s has been a landmark and
so much more since it first opened
in 1924, and each successive
owner did exactly what the newest
proprietors have done: kept pretty
much everything everyone loved
about the old Seesaw’s, and layered
on a bit of a new twist.
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Developer Ryan Prins, originally
from Curaçao, had connections to
Vermont, having learned to ski at
Stowe. He and his wife, and their
two children, had been living in
nearby Arlington in recent years.
In 2015, with a co-investor who
has ties to Peru, he began the
By the time the building
was dismantled, the best
and most treasured parts
of the main dining room
and bar had been labeled,
numbered, removed, and
saved to be reassembled in
the new building.
piece-by-piece rehabilitation of
the entire Seesaw’s site, having
purchased it at auction the year
before. Prins, operating as JS LLC,
has been the project manager,
and he is also the one with the
broad, yet sensitive vision for
Seesaw’s redux. Diligent as his
own designer, builder, and permit-
getter, with renderings and floor
plans from a local architect, Prins