It was purchased by my great uncle in 1922 (a lawyer in Manhattan who lived in Westchester Co. who purchased the farm summer retreat). My research shows we were the third owners and the family they purchased it from were elderly (two sisters and a brother w/ no kids) who had aged out of farming. The town has the date built as 1870, but I found it on the 1855 census.
The larger barn that got destroyed by the maple was in the process of being saved. We had repaired the corrugated steel roof and we were getting ready to cable it when the old tree let go.