Dill Farm - Property

Property

The farm is a 24-acre (9.7 ha) square parcel on the south side of Steen (formerly Goebel) Road where it bends from north-south to east-west. The Dwaar Kill, a tributary of the Wallkill River, bounds the property to the east. To the south is the Watchtower Farms complex operated by the Jehovah's Witnesses. There are six buildings in total on the property, all of which are considered contributing resources to its historic character.

The main buildings are at the end of a private entrance road, which starts at the bend in Steen and turns around in the center of the property. At its end is the main farmhouse, a one-and-half story frame house with a steep roof pierced by three gabled dormers sloping to a front porch supported by six wooden columns. The north and south ends have exposed stone on the first story. A smaller south wing is similarly treated, and a southeastern kitchen wing has a Dutch door, stone foundation, plain frieze at the gabled roofline, and pilasters.

Nearby are three farm buildings, all painted red: a frame ice house with gabled roof, similar frame milk house and a large dairy barn. Along the driveway is a 1 1⁄₂-story tenant house, with its own gabled roof and plain-friezed roofline supported by pilasters. A porch covers the front. The tenant house has its own barn in the rear as well.