Westover-Bacon-Potts Farm

Westover-Bacon-Potts Farm is a 150-acre farm in the uplands of Egremont, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Its focal point is a five-bay, two-and-one-half-story saltbox house with a massive central chimney, built in 1744 by Jonah Westover, with a date inscribed over the front door. A former woodshed and a converted horse barn, both from the early 1800s, connect to the house. Other contributing resources include a barn, a carriage shed, a tool shed, wells and surrounding fields, woodland and remnants of stone walls. The farm was owned by one family, the Bacons, Potts and Warners, from the early 1800s until 1966, and worked as a dairy farm known for its cheese. It is described as the oldest surviving dwelling in Egremont and as an unusually intact mid-eighteenth-century farmstead. Large parts of the land are protected by agricultural and conservation restrictions. It was recognized for its agricultural and architectural importance to the town and county.