A dairy farm for 140 years, a wedding venue since 2016.
The Thayer family milked cows on Larkmoor Lane from 1868 to 2008. In 2016 Odessa Thayer, the fifth generation, restored the barn for weddings and kept the beams, the pond and the orchard.
A slow restoration, on purpose.
An old barn tells you what it will let you change. We listened, and took three years.
1868
The barn goes up
Anselm Thayer raises a timber dairy barn for forty cows and digs the pond below it.
1921
The farmhouse grows
The family adds a second wing to the farmhouse, where wedding parties stay today.
2008
The last milking
The herd is sold, and the fields go back to hay and wildflowers.
2013
Odessa comes home
The fifth generation moves back from Brooklyn with a plan to save the barn.
2016
The first wedding
Heat, restrooms and a new floor go in, and the first couple marries on the pond lawn that June.
2026
Ten seasons
More than 400 weddings, and still only one a day.
Ten acres, four favorite spots.
Pond, orchard, meadow and the old stone wall, all a short walk from the barn and all yours on the day.
The pond
1 acre
Willows on the west bank
Where most ceremonies happen, facing the water.
Leave the farm better than we found it.
Solar on the barn roof
Panels cover most of the power for every wedding, and the rest comes from a renewable plan.
The people behind the barn.
Owner and venue director
Odessa Thayer
Grew up on the farm, ran events for a Brooklyn restaurant group for nine years and came home in 2013. Every couple meets her on their first tour.
The best way to know us is a Saturday tour.
Odessa and Rafe are on the farm every tour day. Ask to see the hayloft.