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just off Rt. 618.
This charming farm home has a lovely view across the valley of Battle Mountain and is the center of a working, 1,200-acre Tarantaise cattle operation. Laurel Hill Farm is the largest raiser of this 200-yearold French breed on the Eastern Seaboard.
The current house is on the site of one built by Major John Roberts, who fought in the Revolution. In 1850 the farm passed to the Hughes family whose forebears also fought in that war. It was a stately home with deep window seats, thick walls, high ceilings, much paneling and many carved mantels and doorways. All this was lost in 1915 when the house burned to the ground.
A two-story, four-room house was built here in the 1930s by the Hughes family to serve as a temporary residence. Little further work was done, however, until 1950 when the property was bought by Lt. General Daniel Noce, a veteran of World War II. He and Mrs. Noce upgraded the house to some degree but it was in 1965 when Laurel Hill passed to the Fannons that the home was completely remodeled.
Today there are downstairs and upstairs living rooms, a paneled sit-. ,
ting room and form^ dinfag j’oom. -- Many materials for The ’rebuilding” came from old homes and building^ in the area as well as from Alexan
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