Shelburne Farms great farm barn at the lake
— — the long roofline the pasture leans up to meet.
Not only on a wall.
“The Farm Barn at Shelburne Farms, the agricultural heart of the Webb estate above Lake Champlain. A five-story timber complex around an enclosed courtyard, longer than a football field, designed by Robert Henderson Robertson in the late 1880s. The pasture rolls down past it toward the lake; the Adirondacks sit low across the water. The cheese-making operation still works inside. — from the studio
Shelburne Farms great farm 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.
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The place, in three passes.
The Farm Barn at Shelburne Farms was built between 1888 and 1891 as the agricultural center of the Webb estate, a 1,400-acre model farm on Lake Champlain in Shelburne, Vermont. Designed by New York architect Robert Henderson Robertson, the barn runs roughly 416 feet long and rises five stories around an enclosed central courtyard, the largest of the agricultural buildings on the estate. It sits above the pasture slope that leads down to the lake, with the Adirondacks visible across the water on a clear afternoon.
The Farm Barn is timber framed on a cut limestone foundation, with cedar shingle siding and a slate roof punctuated by gabled hay dormers. Robert Henderson Robertson's design uses a Shingle Style and Romanesque vocabulary, with a stout entry tower facing the courtyard and broad arched openings for wagons. The structure's scale, 416 feet on its long axis around an interior court, was unusual for an American farm building of its day. The masonry was quarried locally; the timber is Vermont spruce and pine.
The Farm Barn is open seasonally, generally mid-May through mid-October, with a children's farmyard in the courtyard, a working cheese operation visible to visitors, and timed access to the upper floors. Walking trails connect from the Welcome Center across the property to the Inn at Shelburne Farms above the lake. A property admission fee applies; members and Shelburne residents have separate access. The farm sits about two miles west of Route 7 in Shelburne village, seven miles south of Burlington.