CRAIGHEAD

At this equestrian farm, location and function are lucidly expressed in the vocabulary of the Western Reserve. Inside the gate, a 150-year-old sugar maple canopy shades the original 1871 house, garage court guesthouse, and greenhouse. The front garden, with a rose-and-box knot, richly detailed sandstone and brick paving, and grotto fountain, beckons. Thermaled bluestone slabs pave the dining room and screen porch, flowing onto a terrace overlooking a lake and the equestrian compound, which is set off by an allée of plane trees.  A pair of century barns, adapted for modern use, share a cobblestone courtyard with a twenty-stall bank barn. A salvaged chicken coop, granary, and corn crib have been cleverly repurposed as the breeding manager’s quarters. Indigenous sandstone creates a visual motif throughout the property, used in retaining walls to mediate grade, as a veneer for a new building, and in a graceful rustic fountain referencing antique watering troughs (with touchpad controls for water jets concealed in the masonry).