Hilltop Farm - George Hendee, co-founder of the Indian Motorcycle Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, bought 24 parcels from various farmers between 1913-1925 and created the 500-acre Hilltop Farm. In 1914, he had a 20,000 square foot Georgian Revival dairy barn built. At the completion of construction, an article appeared in the Springfield Homestead which stated, "Noticeable from the roadway is a great white barn calculated to be sufficient for a farm of considerable scope and dimensions. The main entrance. . . is a feature. The two great towers are more than ornamental however, they're silos and of prodigious capacity. The rest of this main floor is given up to hay storage and for farm wagons and implements. It could also store a locomotive or a whole train of cars, for it is mammoth in size". Ninety years later, the site has historic and architectural importance as an early 20th century "gentleman's farm." According to Nick Bellantoni, Connecticut State Archeologist, and David Poirier, Connecticut Historical Commission, "the dairy barn is extraordinary in its architectural design and structural integrity". This unusually handsome and elaborately planned and detailed barn is contiguous to 76 acres of town-owned, permanently preserved open space.

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