Tim James quest to bring 19th-century bookbinding back to Troy timesunion.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesunion.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Winona Barton-Ballentine Anne Hall s refurbished 18th-century farmhouse sits on 155 acres of land. To Hall the entire project first the rehabilitation and total renovation of the home and then the establishing of the resident flower farm may seem almost opposite in nature, but Hall sees commonalities. “There’s definitely a very elemental thread through all of this,” she explains. “It’s taking things down to their most basic processes, appreciating those and then finding new ways to work their basic elements.” In 2015, when Anne Hall first encountered her historic 1783 farmstead, she didn’t see a stone house that needed major renovations, or 35 acres that wanted planting, or even the attached modernist barn-cum-studio washed in light waiting for makers to make some creative hay. “I just saw one huge canvas,” she remembers.