Uphill from the Lippitt Mills (
WW7), the Lippitt Hill Farm complex includes two farmhouses, numerous outbuildings, extensive stonewall-lined fields, and an unusual family cemetery. Both the Christopher Lippitt House (c. 1735) and the William Lippitt House (1805) are south-facing center-chimney dwellings typical of their respective periods of construction, the earlier with a pedimented Ionic door frame, the latter with a semicircular fanlight beneath a pedimented frame. The numerous barns, stables, well houses, and sheds bear testimony to the long agricultural history of the complex, while twentieth-century additions illustrate the transformation of the gentleman's farm into a country retreat. The family cemetery is now enclosed by a unique heart-shaped ring of pines planted by Julia Lippitt Mauran in the early twentieth century. Densely surrounded by a tangled thicket and now unintelligible from the ground, it can be discerned only from the air. But it was partly meant, after all, for angels' eyes.