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$5,800,000
764 E Hill Rd, Great Barrington, MA
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Key Facts
Type Single Family Residence
Levels Residential
Size 11670 sqft
Garage Yes
Taxes $26,400
Days Active 5
Lot Size
Approx. Age 1798
Avg. Price Per Sqft $497
MLS® Number 246888
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Average square foot calculated using Size range provided by listing agent.
Description
High on a hilltop in the Southern Berkshires stands East Hill Farm. 227 cultivated acres encompassing pristine forest, spring-fed pond, striking barn, verdant pastures, formal and vegetable gardens, pool, and tennis court. The centerpiece: a 1798 Georgian home, 5, 000sf. & 5 bedrooms. Ready for private living, entertaining, horses, farming, a bespoke destination, or simply: tranquility. Includes a reimagined 6, 000+sf guest house, once an Arabian horse barn. 2½ hours to both NYC & Boston, yet a world apart. East Hill Farm offers what money rarely can buy: authenticity at scale. A 227 year-old house expanded, refined for 21st-c. Life. Land, privacy, history, and a place of peace, which has endured through every chapter of American history. The next chapter begins with you. Reach out! WHERE THE WORLD FALLS AWAY 227 acres. 227 years. One extraordinary hilltop farm. Drive up East Hill Road through Southfield village, past the store, climbing toward the top of Woodruff Mountain. The dirt road is well-maintained and lightly traveled. Sugar maples line your approach - massive, ancient trees that have watched over this land since before the house was built. Behind them, set back from the road, stands the kind of barn that makes photographers stop their cars. Three-and-a-half stories of hand-hewn timber, painted proper New England red, moved here piece by piece from Amherst, Massachusetts, because the sellers understood that a farm needs a real barn. Not a replica. The real thing. The house stops your heart Federal period, 1798, when John Adams was president. This wasn't just another farmhouse. When Thomas Shepard commissioned John Collar to build this, he was making a statement. 8 rooms. 5 fireplaces. Ceilings higher than any farmer needed. Those distinctive 12-over-12 windows with hand-blown glass that turns the morning light liquid. A facade with sidelight windows and dentil cornice that announced to every traveler: here lives a person of substance., Walk through that front door and the wide center hall opens before you. Original wide-plank floors - King's boards, they called them, because timber this wide was supposed to be reserved for the Royal Navy's masts. Twin parlors flank the entrance, flooded with southern light. To your left, the original keeping room, now the dining room, where that massive cooking fireplace with its beehive oven still works perfectly after 227 years. The draft in these fireplaces is extraordinary. The woodwork throughout is original or crafted by hand precisely to match. Chair rails, wainscoting, built-in china cabinets with their original hardware. Those small cupboards tucked around the chimneys - John Collar's signature touch. Five Families in 227 Years Jesse Hartwell married Thomas Shepard's niece and turned the house into a meeting place for progressive thinkers, and through the 19th century, the Hartwell family made this their home. Then came the Arabian horse breeders in the 1930s who added the newer rear ell and built what's now the guest house. The current sellers bought the house and five acres in 1969, then spent the next five decades not just restoring but thoughtfully expanding it. You'll be only the fifth family to call East Hill Farm home - and despite its National Register status, free to shape its future as you see fit. That newer section? Radiant heat underfoot, a proper mudroom with laundry, a family room or perfect home office with its own kitchen, and an elevator up to a sun-filled library with built-in shelves and an ensuite bedroom and bath. A luminous sunroom framing year-round sunsets, with sweeping views across the formal gardens, horse pastures, and the shimmering pond below. Upstairs in the original part of the house, an additional four bedrooms, each with its own character. The canopy bedroom with its blue and white toile - that's not staging, that's how the family lives. Wide hallways, deep closets, and in that large upstairs hall above the front door, a perfect spot to sit Show Description
MLS® Number246888
Laundry Level
Central VacNo
FireplaceNo
Acreage227
ExteriorPrivacy, Deciduous Shade Trees, Mature Landscaping, Paddock
GarageYes
Approx. Age1798
BasementUnfinished, Interior Access, Full, Concrete Floor, Bulk head
DrivewayGaraged & Off-Street
Garage Spaces
HeatPropane, Oil, Wood, Boiler, Forced Air, Hot Water
A/C
Heating Fuel
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