Reached by a mile-long paved driveway, Morland's main house was originally built in 1927 by Woolridge Brown and Lucie Taylor Morton. We purchased it back into the family in 2018 (John is their great grandson). The name is a simple contraction of “Mortons’ land," though it now represents a much larger family of friends who have lived and celebrated here.
Additional buildings were added between 1927 and 1935, including a four-car carriage house, horse stables (soon to be our winery), ice house and smoke house, and three guest cottages: the River Cottage, the Garden Cottage and the Boys’ House -- the latter built for Brown and Lucie's two sons on return from World War II. These structures, a fountain and a swimming pool, along with several gardens and terraces, sit on 20 cleared acres that now compromise the 160-acre estate.