28 Main Rd, Tyringham, MA 01264

They don't build love at first sight anymore, either. But Sky Hill Farm - a genuine 1798 Federal colonial in Tyringham Valley - has been creating that exact feeling for over two centuries. In 1912, Adele LeBourgeois Chapin wrote about first arriving here at dusk, walking through high grass to the old front door with its worn stone steps and feeling the homely welcome as she went in. ''This old house was beautiful,'' she wrote, ''the rooms perfectly proportioned, the mantlepieces charming old Colonial ones... I felt as if I was at home at last.'' That feeling hasn't changed, because neither has this house. And for the last 120 years, the same family has been its devoted stewards. First settled in the 1750's at the very edge of America's rugged and wild western frontier, Sky Hill Farm's center chimney colonial replaced an earlier colonial when the farm was prospering and the valley was coming alive. Three bedrooms, two and a half baths, 3,443 square feet of authentic … read more …