Yama Farms Inn: A Home in the Mountains

 

Offices and Staff Quarters

The design of this building  suggests that it was built as part of Yama-no-uchi (circa 1906-1910). Clay Lancaster's The Japanese Influence in America (1963) describes it as “constructed in the Japanese manner … composed of flush horizontal boards held in place by vertical wood strips, protected by deep overhanging eaves.” Other portions of the building’s exterior walls are built of coursed rows of glacial cobbles. Like the Hut, it has chimney with a spreading base.


It  functioned as a private residence, guesthouse, office space, and staff quarters. There is also a tradition that Seaman and Sarre used portions of the building to breed and raise their prize-winning Black Minorca chickens. During prohibition, wine and champagne were produced and stored in its cellar.

The building appearing in the far right of this post card view may have served the dual function of staff quarters and the Yama Farms Inn Garage. The latter is mentioned in a tire advertisement published in a July 1919 edition of the Daily Freeman (Kingston, NY).