Avon Old Farms

It is perhaps one of the best ensembles of romantic revival architecture and landscape design in America.

Avon Old Farms

They appear to be growing, as if in a garden, poking up through the red Farmington Valley soil. 

Avon Old Farms

The buildings and their surroundings are unified and organic. 

Avon Old Farms

This soft primitivism is enhanced by meandering walkways and paths that harmonize with the landscape and architecture.

Avon Old Farms

The campus, built in the 1920’s by workmen from the English Cotswolds, was in need of preservation because of the effects of the harsh New England weather.

Avon Old Farms

Buildings which no longer functioned for a modern school were renovated to contemporary standards while preserving the school’s architectural integrity.

Avon Old Farms

while preserving the school’s architectural integrity.

Avon Old Farms

New adaptive work included an art and music studio complex,

Avon Old Farms

a library and science building

Avon Old Farms

and a Norman Keep, renovated for use as an art gallery.