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, Foch 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 Shuart-Van Orden Stone House, 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 New World Dutch barn, 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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Adair Vineyards
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hait, Thaddeus, Farm Buildings and structures in Ulster County, New York Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Wineries in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Ulster County, New York Plattekill, New York Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)