Woodstock co-creator’s longtime home lists for sale — ahead of the famed festival’s 55th anniversary
The longtime residence of the late Michael Lang, a co-creator of 1969’s famed Woodstock Music & Art Festival, has listed for sale — and not long before the 55th anniversary of the famed event, which is this Sunday.
Lang called this Hudson Valley estate his home for 45 years and lived there until his death at age 77 in early 2022 from Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The 17-acre parcel is located less than 30 minutes from Woodstock, in Mount Tremper, and is seeking $2.43 million, Mansion Global first reported. (Notably, the Woodstock festival was actually held about 40 miles southwest of the town, in Bethel, New York.)
Officially named Happy Brooks, the compound is “the Graceland of 1960s counter culture,” according to the listing, which is repped by Chris Pomeroy and Nancy Felcetto of Brown Harris Stevens.
Since the main house was built for the artist G Adolph Anderson in 1929, the address has “been a place that has housed artists of all kinds,” Pomeroy told Mansion Global, adding, “There have always been musicians and painters and sculptors and writers that have either lived there or stayed there or created there.”
During the decades Lang resided there especially, a star-studded slew of musicians could frequently be found there.
Today, Happy Brooks contains three primary structures, all composed of stone, wood “and imagination,” the listing states. Shortly after the primary residence’s construction for Anderson, a guest house and cottage were also erected on the land, in 1933.
Highlights of the main house include a balcony-equipped double-height great room, an upper-level library, a huge bluestone fireplace, a formal dining room with mountain views and a family room with a built-in bread oven. As well, there is a reading room set behind stained glass doors and a conservatory with a 24-foot glass ceiling.
Across a central courtyard is the guest house, which contains two bedrooms, a living room and a “built-in collection of Fu dogs and wood-carvings on gilded plaques collected from travels to China.”
The third stone structure has an additional two bedrooms, and is connected to a three-bay garage and a greenhouse in need of restoration.
Elsewhere on the property there is a tool shed, a three-stall barn, a cement pool, a picnic pavilion, extensive gardens and a pond with its own “art island” featuring a sculpture by Lang.