Help Us Cross the Finish Line
With the help of many donors, the Barn Campaign is just $225,000 away from our goal of $1,250,000. With your gift, ewe can help us cross the finish line!
The Campaign to Raise the Barn at Gore Place
Gore Place is excited to announce that construction has started on our reproduction, early 19th-century threshing barn. Click this link to read our weekly updates about the barn building project: Barn Project Updates.
Ways to Donate
Thank you to all who have already contributed to our Barn Campaign! Without your generosity and support, this project would not have been possible. If you have not yet contributed, there is still time! Please text BARN to 44-321 to donate on your mobile device or make an online donation to the Campaign to Raise the Barn.
About this Project
We need you to be a part of our next big project! Help us create an authentic, agrarian farm precinct around our existing 1835 Farmer’s Cottage and build a new barn in an early 19th-century style for the Farm at Gore Place.
Today, when you visit Gore Place, you can only see our sheep from a distance in the pasture. The new barn will house our flock of Leicester Longwool sheep and our poultry, plus it will allow us to add pigs to the Farm. But this new barn won’t just help Gore Place visitors experience history. It will be a beautiful, safe new home for our animals. In the new barn, you will be able to see the sheep up close — even lambs with their mothers. And it will maintain our animals’ safety from both winter storms and predators like coyotes.
In addition to being historically accurate, the farm precinct and barn structures will be enjoyable for all with accessible pathways and restrooms as well as other modern amenities.
Christopher Gore, who established this country estate along with his wife Rebecca, referred to their estate as “my farm at Waltham.” Mr. Gore was passionate about implementing progressive farming practices on his land. By building a barn in keeping with what would have stood here in the Gores’ time, we will bring historic farming to life for our visitors, right here in Waltham and Watertown.
We need your help to raise the barn. Every gift makes a difference!
DONATE TODAY
Make an online donation to the Campaign to Raise the Barn
Text BARN to 44-321 to donate on your mobile device
