The Story
Cadwell Family Farm, ca. 1950
The Cadwell Family Farm is the ideal setting for your pastoral Vermont retreat. Its two classic houses sleep up to 26 people and include expansive kitchens and spacious dining and living rooms. The farm’s handsome timber-framed barn, available for rent with one or both houses, includes a grand 35 by 63 foot meeting area with broad screened windows overlooking fields and the distant Green Mountains. The farm’s acreage includes play fields, bird habitats, and a hiking trail linked to the Pittsford village’s 20-mile network. We are happy to suggest nearby catering services. You will also find backroad biking, river canoeing, quarry swimming, and horseback riding, as well as golf courses, farmer’s markets, micro-breweries, restaurants, and alpine and Nordic ski areas.
The Cadwell Farm has been in the family for eight generations and over 175 years. Set in the valley of Otter Creek along the west flank of Vermont’s Green Mountains, the farm’s 300 acres have yielded milk, eggs, grain, vegetables, livestock, wool, and lumber. The farmhouse was built in stages during the early 19th century. Greek revival in style, the farmhouse’s lineage extends through centuries to the United Kingdom and follows the nursery chant “big-house, little-house, back-house, barn.” A second house in the Shingle Style was built in the early 20th century by our Uncle Dan as was the existing timber-framed barn. The barn is the third built on the site, its predecessors having burned. Dairy operations ceased on the farm in 1970, but the fields are still cultivated by neighboring farmers. The Cadwell family is committed to its stewardship of the farm – its buildings, landscape, and wildlife – and invites you to share in its continued vitality.
The History
Cadwell Family Farm, ca. 1910