1791 House Restored and Open to Tour in Guilford, Saturday Sept. 7, 1-3 pm
About five years ago the 1791 Bullock-Ashworth House on Ashworth Road was purchased by Sara Coffey and her husband David Snyder for the purpose of housing visiting artists who are working at the recording studios of Guilford Sound and Vermont Performance Lab (VPL). The public is invited to tour the house on Sept. 7 from 1 to 3 pm to see what has been accomplished.
The land around the house has been cleared of a later ell and a deteriorating barn, leaving a classic colonial New England country home with beautiful views. The rear terrace, recently added, looks south and west over the hills of Guilford. Amazingly, after over 200 years, the original wood work is preserved, both indoors and out . Cleaned and repaired, featuring handmade hardware, the house offers a glimpse of how different the post Revolutionary buildings were from the log structures of the first settlers.
Built by Captain Lovell Bullock over a period of ten years, completed in 1791 and lived in by his descendants until 1901, the house passed to the Ashworth family in 1910 and was occupied by “Herm” (Herman) Ashworth until his death in 2006.
The open house, hosted by the Guilford Historical Society and VPL, will include a display on the Bullocks. The house has been furnished with ‘country’ antiques from the periods when it was an active Vermont farm. It is not handicapped accessible as there is a stone stoop and narrow winding stairs inside, but even the exterior is worth seeing. Refreshments will be served. The house is located at 569 Ashworth Road, which leaves Bonnyvale Road to the east just before the junction with the Guilford Center Road.
