Hopkins Farm

Hopkins Farm covers 370 acres two miles southwest of the village of Pittsford, on both sides of Clover Street. The land has remained with the Hopkins family since Caleb Hopkins, a military officer, customs official and early Rochester-area businessman, bought it in the early nineteenth century. The core is the original 164-acre homestead, joined in the early twentieth century by the Barker farm and part of the Nye farm. The centerpiece is a circa 1815 hewn-timber farmhouse with a central chimney, Federal interior details and Greek Revival additions from about 1850. Around it are barns, a smokehouse, corn crib, windmill derrick, outhouse and tenant houses, built from the early 1800s through the 1900s. A circa 1912 dairy barn and a former English barn show how farming changed over time. A 29-acre old-growth wood lot and open fields preserve the traditional farm layout, even as suburban housing now surrounds the property.