Stagecoach Inn Rennovation

The Joshua Millard House began as a tavern in 1764 and has evolved into its current form with additions in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. The house, a two-and-a-half story Georgian with clapboard exteriors, is separated from the main road by extensive stone walls five feet in height.

In the nineteenth century, the house was the center of a 100+ acre working farm which, by the twentieth century, had become the gentleman’s farm of a prominent Wall Street family.

The property was first divided in 1992. Currently, the house sits on eleven acres. The house sits on an outcropping of land bordered by a seasonal stream. In 2002 the garage was added.

Beginning in 2003 the owners worked closely with Craig Okerstrom Lang, RLA, ASLA, Landscape Architect, to repair the grounds and add gentle improvements. The design goals were to respect the historical aspects of the architecture and to add new garden spaces that reflect the owners’ lifestyle. The work included stone wall repair, new front/north shade gardens, wire-cut brick pathways, tree pruning and invasives removals, rear/sunny/south gardens, bridge over a stream, etc.