Farmhouse Revival
By Steve Gross and Susan Daley
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A look at the farmhouses of the northeastern United States and their many approaches to their renovation, restoration, and interior design.
The American farmhouse represents integrity, ingenuity, capability, and our rural and agricultural heritage. Farmhouses today are survivors from another era, constantly being rediscovered, revived, and restored in different, creative ways—though all share the same timeless aesthetic. In this fresh look at the American vernacular farmhouse, photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daley set out to document twenty revived farmhouses, and their stunning photographs illustrate the many individual approaches to the renovation, restoration, and interior design of the modern farmhouse.
Found in many architectural styles, from humble Cape Cods to refined Greek Revivals, the homes in this book have all been reinvented over the years to accommodate individual tastes and changing needs while maintaining the spirit of a true American farmhouse. Furnished with vintage details—wood-burning stoves, enameled kitchen sinks, chenille bedspreads—and rooted in landscapes of rolling fields and mountains, these are the homes of the multigenerational families, solitary shepherds, graphic artists, architects, and organic farmers at the forefront of the renewed interest in the farming lifestyle. The accompanying text tells the history of each house, how it has been passed down from generation to generation or rescued from abandonment and neglect, and how the inhabitants live in and use the homes today.
From three-hundred-year-old Sydenham House in Newark, New Jersey, to Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, New York, this is a look at American culture through that most celebrated and quintessential building style, the farmhouse.
Praise for Farmhouse Revival
“Those interested in a homey, country style of decorating or in home restoration will be inspired.” ―Library Journal
“Above all, the greatest joy is just looking at the beautiful time-worn places and appreciating the way those that came before led a happy and fulfilling life of simplicity and utility within their walls. For once you have read this book, you will realize that in many ways, it is the farmhouse that helps to restore us, and not the other way around.” ―Preservation.com
“Buy the book Farmhouse Revival for the photos―for inspiration . . . the authors clearly know architecture and antiques.” ―Dan’s Paper
“Perusing Farmhouse Revival is a marvelous experience . . . and is sure to make readers wonder what stories the farmhouses in their towns could tell.” ―Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Farmhouse Revival - Steve Gross
BELLEFIELD MANOR FARM
The Manorkill Valley in the northern Catskill Mountains is one of New York’s most remote and beautiful mountain valleys. The long, winding road that follows the Manorkill Creek was once a narrow Indian trail, before it became the busy Susquehanna Turnpike. Just past a general store and an old cemetery we find the farmhouse of writer Annick de Bellefeuille and Dr. Rhodes Adler. Originally constructed in 1790 for one George Humphrey, the house was a tavern that sheltered farmers coming from overcrowded parts of New England on their search for new lands to farm. It also provided a gathering place for local farmers to meet, discuss business, trade, and imbibe, as well as a stopover for drovers bringing their flocks or herds down the mountain to market in the town of Catskill on the Hudson River.
For more than 150 years, the fields in the valley provided crops such as buckwheat, rye, and corn. The handsome barn, which sits directly across the road from the house, was restored by a local craftsman using early barn-building techniques and materials recycled from other old farm structures. The couple now holds potluck dinners there, where neighbors gather and enjoy the views of Huntersfield Mountain through barn doors thrown wide open.
The couple purchased the farm in 1987 and sought to reveal the original character that lurked beneath multiple layers of remodeling. We wanted rooms with the huge brick fireplaces and hand-hewn beamed ceilings exposed,
Annick says. At one time the ceiling beams would have been covered with plaster and lath, but once we’d stripped them bare, we liked the look.
Heated by a wood-stove, the kitchen is ornamented with a frieze of Mexican folk pottery, the colorful accents enhanced by the bright blue of the shelf and the green of the kitchen set. Wooden cutting boards are set to dry on a stone