A Picturesque New York Farmhouse by Gil Schafer

Thanks to Pinterest, I recently stumbled upon a farmhouse designed by one of my favorite Architects, Gil Schafer. It was originally featured in the June 2012 issue of Architectural Digest, and I’m not sure how I missed it! This beautiful home is located on a 400-acre working farm in New York’s bucolic Dutchess County and was commissioned by a Manhattan couple with three children, all avid equestrians. “My goal was to avoid a new-looking building in a bald field,” Schafer said to Architectural Digest. “Instead I tried to establish an organic sense of place, grown over time, by inventing a certain architectural mythology.” Schafer is known for his keen ability to sensitively renovate historic homes, and for building historically accurate new old homes.

The 9,000 square foot Colonial Revival main house was built of Connecticut granite fieldstone, and the interior was designed to reinforce the idea that the house grew over time, with the interior architecture and moldings rooted in the American Federal period. The decoration, also by Schafer’s office, is ongoing and responds to the clients’ love of collecting antiques and sporting art as well as the need for a gracious and comfortable setting for family life. The house was the recipient of a 2012 Stanford White Award for New Residential Construction.  Photography below is via Architectural Digest and G.P. Schafer Architect.

I am such a huge fan of Gil Schafer’s work, and I highly recommend his books The Great American House: Tradition for the Way We Live Now and A Place to Call Home: Tradition, Style, and Memory in the New American House. You can also see more of my favorite projects by clicking the links below:

6 COMMENTS

  1. I also am a huge fan of his work. He’s a genius. I read every word in A Place to Call Home…so insightful and the homes, perfection.

  2. What a lovely home! I love that it’s not “decorated”. It truly looks as if it has evolved over time. One so rarely sees a designer who can do this today. Big kudos!

  3. What a joy to see all that beautiful WOOD!! l’m ever so sad to see it disappearing from design. The warmth this home exudes is magnificent. There is nothing like a home with personality and ambiance thanks to the beautiful fabrics, trims antiques, and oil paintings ! Rooms with period furniture are sadly a rarity, so thanks for keeping it alive ,to hopefully inspire it’s return. Bravo !

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