Twin Farms

Twin Farms holds about three hundred acres of meadow, birch forest and hill outside Barnard in central Vermont. At its centre is a farmhouse of around 1795 that the novelist Sinclair Lewis and the journalist Dorothy Thompson kept as their country place. The estate's territorial fact is unusual for the Northeast: the ground includes groomed ski runs open only to guests, alongside a private fishing pond, trails and a canoe on Copper Pond. The slopes are part of the holding rather than an excursion from it, and the pond and the trails sit inside the same line.

The house opened as a hotel in 1993 and takes adults only, on an all-inclusive basis with no menus: the kitchen cooks to the guest. Accommodation is published at twenty rooms and cottages in most accounts and at twenty-eight by the operator, the difference being newer cottages added since; a handful of rooms sit in the old farmhouse and the rest are free-standing cottages by the architect Peter Bohlin, interiors by Jed Johnson and later by Thad Hayes. The collection on the walls runs to Hockney, Stella, Johns and Lichtenstein.

Slopes inside the line. Three hundred acres carrying their own ski runs means the estate holds terrain, not just a view of it. The runs are for guests alone, so the hill is within the boundary rather than beyond it.

A house kept by writers, then by a hotel. The farmhouse was a private retreat before it was anything else, and the plan still puts a few rooms in it and scatters the rest across the land.

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• Guide and press record - about three hundred acres of meadow, forest and hill outside Barnard, Vermont; the farmhouse, dated to around 1795, was the country home of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson; opened as a hotel in 1993; adults only and all-inclusive, with no menus
• Trade coverage - guest-only ski runs, given as six groomed runs, a private fishing pond and Copper Pond; cottages by Peter Bohlin with interiors by Jed Johnson, and later cottages by Thad Hayes; art by David Hockney, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein

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accommodation is published as twenty rooms and cottages by most guides, as ten themed cottages by one, and as twenty-eight cottages and suites by the operator in 2026. The operator's figure is the most recent and reflects additions.

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