Bute-Warner-Truax Farm

Two miles north of Charlotteville, in the western foothills of the Catskills, a 103-acre farm has kept its original boundaries since Jedediah Bute bought the land in 1853. The centerpiece is a frame Greek Revival farmhouse of about 1853-1855, with a pedimented two-story center block, flanking single-story wings, a recessed porch and a continuous entablature. Other contributing features include a nineteenth-century family burial plot, a fieldstone retaining wall, and an early twentieth-century milk house, garage and fire pond. Later owners included the Warner family, among them Civil War veteran and author George H. Warner, and then the Truax family, who ran the farm as a dairy through 1966. A mid-nineteenth-century barn moved here in 1982 replaced one lost to fire and is counted as non-contributing. Open pastures, hayfields and an apple orchard still survive. The farm is valued as an unusually intact small farmstead of the region, with continuous use since 1853.