Twin Horses~Barn Quilt Trail, New Milford, CT

GERON NURSING CARRIAGE BARN

The Victorian house on the green has been repurposed as a nursing and home aide service. It was built in 1857 by Dr. James Hine, also a founder and president of the New Milford Savings Bank. It was sold in 1870 to tobacco dealer, farmer and businessman Henry Orange Warner, who updated the house, adding the mansard roof and front porch. He probably built this carriage barn as it’s the same architectural style as the house. Carriage houses represent a transition from the traditional barn to the modern garage, having been used for both vehicles and horses on the first floor and hay storage on the second. The horse head quilt block designs recall this legacy.

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‍The New Milford Barn Quilt Trail consists of 19 colorful quilt patterns hand-painted on large weather-resistant blocks and hung on antique and vintage barns and historical buildings around our town. It honors our rich agricultural history, the exciting resurgence of family farms in New Milford today and the American tradition of quilt-making. It is the first barn quilt trail established in Connecticut. Already, over 40 U.S. states, including New Hampshire and New York, boast quilt trails in a rapidly expanding movement that began in Ohio in 2001. Get in your car or jump on your bike and use any mobile device to access this site as you visit these barn quilt block sites. Please use caution as you drive, bike or walk along the country roads of the barn quilt trail. Remember that the quilt blocks are displayed on what is often private property and can be viewed only from public roadsides. Responsibility for any accidents while observing the quilt blocks rests entirely with the viewer.

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