The Granary

Description from the owner

The Granary, a charming country guesthouse on a 150 year old family farm, once really housed wheat and oats. Now it has begun its second life as a simple retreat surrounded by wildflowers, morning mist, and open space.

Located in the scenic Genesee River Valley, this 125-acre crop farm cultivates hay, corn, wheat, rye, organic vegetables, and lavender. The pretty, nearby village of Angelica--nicknamed "the town where history lives" by Readers' Digest--is like a place from another time.

Granary guests can dip in the creek, roam through woods and fields, read on the porch, and enjoy an evening campfire. Those looking for more action... can fish for trout, bicycle past Amish farms, or play a round of golf. Peruse antique shops in Angelica, then stop by the Angelica Sweet Shop, or on weekends enjoy the Saturday Farmers' Market and live music at the renowned Black-Eyed Susan Cafe. Special events include Lavender Festival, Heritage Days, Civil War Reenactment, and the Allegany County Fair.

The Granary guesthouse sleeps up to 4 in a queen bed inside and a standard double on a screened sleeping porch. A cozy sleeping loft has three mattresses for kids (bring sleeping bags) and a portable crib is available for baby. There is also a half bath, an enclosed outdoor shower, an equipped kitchen, and WiFi, but no TV. A large fenced yard attached to the front porch is perfect for dogs.

Please no RV's. One extra tent is fine. Property has a nice campfire site with a mowed campsite nearby for kids or extra friends.

2-night min./2-week max. stay.Read more

Additional Location Information

2 miles west of the village of Angelica, NY off Interstate 86 at exit 31 in the rural Genesee River Valley of western New York State

Location Type Rural

Additional notes from owner

Two week maximum stay. Taxes are included. $300 due at booking. Balance on arrival. VISA/MC/DIS and Paypal accepted. Taxes and fees included.

What Past Guests Are Saying

• mayweleap
  Albuquerque, New Mexico

  Farm-fresh Getaway

  Left on 06/29/2011 for a stay in July 2010
  
  

  The Granary is a really unique little cottage in the middle of a field of queen anne's lace and clover flowers. We spent one week there to escape the heat and noise of our city home and we really got what we came for. It was so quiet--and yet it wasn't! In the evening, there was this wonderful stillness and then the peeper (frogs or cicadas, I don't know which) began to sing. And then the fireflies were upon us. Waking up on the sleeping porch with a thick mist all around was really the best part.
  
  The Granary itself is an old building, ship-shape but rustic. It's been remodeled, of course, to be a guesthouse, but it isn't a winterized house or gussied up much. In some places light comes in through the wall boards. Rustic touches include old barn windows that you keep open by hooking to chains that hang from the ceiling, and the handrail for the loft stairs is some sort of twisted tree branch. And the outside shower--which is kind of like a beach shower with an anteroom where you hang your clothes and then the shower itself--took a little getting used to, but pressure and hot water were both good. The beds were both really comfortable (we didn't use the sleeping loft because my son was too little for the steep pull-down attic stairs). The description says the house sleeps eight, and technically it does, but it's a very small space for that many people, and you wouldn't have much privacy from one another. And eight people wouldn't fit at the little kitchen table, that's for sure.
  
  It was a lot like camping in the sense that we felt really close to the outdoors, or like living a long time ago, but with comfortable beds, high-quality linens and towels, a real stove and a microwave, and good screens to boot.
  
  The owners were really nice and gave us lots of advice on where to go, but mostly we kept to ourselves and unless we needed anything they let us be (they live in the main farmhouse about a hundred yards from the Granary). We did get some of the dinners that they prepare in their restaurant kitchen from their own garden veggies and local meats. The chicken divan with broccoli was my personal favorite. At less than $15 for dinner for all of us, it was a pretty great deal.
  
  My toddler loved hiking in the woods and playing in the stream below the farm's old cow barn, and my two dogs liked having room to really run for a change (and I really liked being able to put them in the big yard when I couldn't watch them or when we were going into town). The Saturday farmers' market in the old town circle in angelica was great too--the Granary owners actually cook pancakes at the market with local fruit, bacon, and maple syrup, which was a real treat. Other vendors sold veggies, honey, free-range eggs, and of course NY State maple syrup.
  
  We took our canoe for a ride down the Genesee River and fished a little bit (no luck). And we spotted a few amish carts, which I thought of as being a Pennsylvania thing, but there is an amish community in angelica too. For the most part we just took it easy and just enjoyed being outdoors in summertime.
  
  I would recommend this house to individuals/couples seeking solitude, or to families looking for a fun country experience.

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  Recommended for: Travelers, Friends, Tourists, Romantic, Families w children, Rugged

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