Pettibone Farm

Pettibone Farm is a former hill farm in Lanesborough, Massachusetts, on Old Cheshire Road below Savage Hill. Its core is a 2 1/2-story clapboard farmhouse built about 1789 by Jonathan Pettibone or his son Amos, along with a horse barn and cow barn from about 1828, a second cow barn and corn crib from the mid-1800s, and stone walls. The house keeps its central-chimney plan, wide pine floorboards and original woodwork, though sash and the kitchen were updated around 1870. The Pettibone family farmed here for generations, and the Jenks family continued agricultural use after 1865. Farming ended in 1926 when a New York buyer purchased the property, and a summer camp opened in 1936, reflecting the Berkshires' turn toward tourism. The listed area covers about four acres around the buildings, since the surrounding fields no longer read as a farm landscape.