Our Story
Two stewards, one old house, a court out back.
John and Erin keep watch over Goose Hill, preserve what earned its place, and modernize only what earns the change.
The Vision
An old farmhouse, a good game, and the room to share both.
When John and Erin found Goose Hill, they didn't set out to run a hotel. This is their family's second home. They set out to keep an eighteenth-century farmhouse standing, and to share it with the paddle community and with anyone who wants a weekend of old floors and quiet acres.
The plan was simple. Restore the bones. Warm the rooms. Put a court out back. Then hand the whole place, at weekend pace, to groups who would enjoy it the way the house wants to be enjoyed.
The Hosts
John & Erin
You have the house, the court, the pond, the pool, and every quiet corner to yourselves. John and Erin's work happens earlier, and offstage: pick the rugs, seal the beams, sharpen the itinerary.
Erin
Erin grew up in the antique trade. Her father was a dealer, and she can read a room's history in its hinges. Every rug, dresser, and crooked-in-the-right-way chair at Goose Hill passed through her hands first. The warmth in the rooms is hers.
John
John spent a career in boardrooms and now runs a landscaping company, which tells you everything: he'd rather be the one on the ladder. Much of the restoration here is his own hands' work: kept where a 1760 farmhouse should be kept, replaced only where it truly had to be. If you leave feeling like the place was generous to you, that's him.
Heritage
The house and the barn.
Circa 1760
The Main House
Hand-hewn beams, wide floorboards, a working fireplace in every gathering room. Restored where it needed it. Left alone where it didn't.
The Barn
Post & Beam
Kept, not curated.
Nothing here has been staged for effect. Every board, every hinge, every pane of glass earns its keep.