Deer Hill began its life as a Greek Revival farmhouse built
by Solomon Merrick in 1840. By the 1900’s, it was expanded into a luxury summer residence for the Bruce Burlingame family.

R. James Hubbard, the great grandson of the founder of Cazenovia, purchased the home and 500 acres for year around occupancy by his wife, Margaret F. Hubbard, and their daughter, Katharine, in 1950. They lived with the help of three servants on the estate for the remainder of their lives riding and driving horses and raising New York State’s first purebred herd of Charolais Beef Cattle.

Your hostess is their niece, Frolic Taylor.