Old House Journal

ARTEMIS FARM

 She met the 1890 Victorian farmhouse as a 14-year-old hired to train horses in Westchester County, New York. Quickly, her immersion in everything equine grew to the point that she was begging her parents to drive her to the horse farm every weekend. Because it was a long commute from her Connecticut childhood home, her parents let her stay the weekends in the farmhouse. That’s when the

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