Located on Route 3 with a view of Hulls Cove in Frenchman's Bay, Cover Farm is twenty-six acres and includes a house with formal gardens. The house dates to the early nineteenth-century and its cape form (a one-and-a-half-story side-gabled house and a large central chimney) is typical of houses constructed at that time. Subsequent additions were made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Cutler family likely purchased the land that became Cover Farm in 1810 and constructed the house shortly thereafter. They sold the farm in 1834 to the Peach family, who added the Greek Revival-style elements, such as the pilasters and entablature surrounding the front entry, to the house around 1840. In 1917 Olive Tilton, an artist from New York, bought the farm for her summer residence. She renamed the property Cover Farm and added a Colonial Revival-style gambrel roofed ell to the north of the house and the formal walled gardens to the south.
Year Listed: 1995
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