Shelburne Farms great barn at the lake
— — the great timber barn the lake has watched for over a century.
Not only on a wall.
“One of the grand turn-of-the-century barns standing above Lake Champlain on the Shelburne Farms property. Built for Lila and William Seward Webb when the estate was a model agricultural enterprise, it still reads from the open pasture as a single long roofline against the water. The Adirondacks sit low across the lake to the west, the cattle move slowly across the foreground. — from the studio
Shelburne Farms great barn at the lake, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Shelburne Farms is a 1,400-acre working farm, education nonprofit, and National Historic Landmark on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain in Shelburne, Vermont. The estate was developed beginning in 1886 by Lila Vanderbilt Webb and William Seward Webb as a model agricultural enterprise, with landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted and major buildings by Robert Henderson Robertson. The grand barns, the Inn, and the surrounding pastures sit on a rolling peninsula above the lake, with the Adirondacks visible across the water to the west.
The estate's great barns are timber framed on cut limestone foundations, finished in cedar shingle and slate roofs. Robert Henderson Robertson, the New York architect behind much of the Webb estate, designed the major structures between 1888 and 1902, with a Shingle Style and Romanesque vocabulary that reads as agricultural rather than ornamental. The masonry was quarried locally; the timber framing is Vermont spruce and pine. The barns stand on a working pasture that slopes toward Lake Champlain, the water visible from the upper hay doors on a clear day.
Shelburne Farms is open to visitors seasonally, generally mid-May through mid-October, with a Welcome Center, walking trails through the working pastures, a children's farmyard, and timed tours of the major barns. The Inn at Shelburne Farms operates as a seasonal hotel and restaurant in the historic Webb residence. A property admission fee applies; members and Shelburne residents have separate access. The farm is two miles west of Route 7 in Shelburne village, about seven miles south of Burlington.