Facilities

The Carpenter’s Barn is a high profile “landmark” that serves as a character-defining gateway to the Village of Cazenovia. Carpenter’s Barn was built in 1889 as the Carriage House facility for the Carpenter family Lakeland estate on Cazenovia Lake. The Village of Cazenovia acquired the building in the 1930s, after which it was used as a Department of Public Works (DPW) facility and in the 1970s it was converted for the home of the Cazenovia Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps (CAVAC)

The Village of Cazenovia pursued rehabilitation and restoration of Carpenter’s Barn with generous support from a New York State (NYS) Dormitory Authority grant through Assemblyman Bill Magee’s office, an Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) Grant from the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, and a substantial donation from the local preservation not-for-profit Cazenovia Preservation Foundation (CPF). Work conducted with this support included reconstruction of the collapsed limestone cr