This abandoned farm property is located at 619 Noxon Road in LaGrange. These buildings are part of a >100 acre farm parcel. I photographed the house, carriage house, and silo foundation, based on the sketch in the building inventory (mentioned below). As of 2017 the property may have been sold (it was for sale) because some construction is occurring on the property – namely, the carriage house photographed here has been demolished.
According to the Historic Resource Survey from 1986, the structures on the property date to late 1700s, early 1800s, and middle 1800s, with some outbuilding from the middle-to-late 1800s and early 1900s.
At the October 23, 2013 meeting of the Town of LaGrange Board, a Forest Stewardship Management Plan was submitted to allow for selective cutting of about two acres of trees outside of the restricted areas of the Conservation Easement on the property. The application was to “cut firewood on the property”, “maintain field edges and fields for crop production”, “keep current farm trails open for access”, “transplant and/or transfer planted conifers”, and “crop tree management for possible future sawtimber production”. The property was identified as Sleight Farm and owned by the Sleight family.
At the August 18, 2016 meeting of the Town of LaGrange Board, there was an application discussed for a special use permit of the property as the Gray (Vale?) Fox Distillery. The proposal was to construct the distillery building in the “upper part” of the property.
Location: Google Maps (41.650374, -73.827479)
