The Thaddeus Hait Farm is located on Allhusen Road near the

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of Modena in the town of Plattekill, New York, United States. It is a property on both sides of the road consisting of 15

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in two distinct groups, together comprising a mostly intact early 19th-century family farm still used for that purpose today. Hait, a member of a prosperous

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family, bought the original 97 acres (39 ha) in 1819. At the time the road was the busy Milton Turnpike, carrying much traffic from

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. Over the next nine years, he built the farm up with purchases adding , setting it into its present form. His grandson sold it in 1888. Two other owners later, in 1906, the Allhusen family after whom the road was renamed bought it for

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and kept it until 1973. After some more transitional owners, it came to the Adairs, who returned to the property's roots by going into

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. The farm was added to the

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in 1988. They have since sold the property to Marc and Lori Stopkie, who have retained the Adair name. Today, Adair Vineyards produces 20,000 bottles annually of

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, Vignoles,

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and

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, on 100 acres (40 ha). Their tasting facility is on the south side of the road east of the house. The main house, on the road a short distance from the

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, is a

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home built around 1825 from a mix of wood and stone, an unusual combination in that style. A frame extension of the west wing was added in the late 19th century. Originally the front was sided in

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with a

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and

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; that was replaced with

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in the 1950s. The interior retains much of the original molding. Near the house are ancillary agricultural structures, such as a stone barn (an unusual material for the area) that appears to have built around the same time as the house, a later wood barn of an identical configuration as the first. The other group, south of the road, is centered on a

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, older than the main house. Originally constructed, like other Dutch barns, for wheat farming, it was

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for winemaking around 1986. Its outbuildings include a

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and 1873

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. An

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dates to the early 20th century. There is also the remains of a

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of a late 18th or early 19th-century stone house and a

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that served it.

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External links

Adair Vineyards
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