Famous Woodstock Farm On the Market for $8M
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BETHEL — By the time you get to Yasgur’s farm, you could be $8 million light.
The 2,000-square-foot house that once belonged to Max Yasgur, who owned the nearby field where the 1969 Woodstock concert helped define the counterculture movement, is for sale. It sits on 103 acres in Sullivan County, about 80 miles northwest of New York City. Asking price: $8 million.
Roy Howard, the current owner who has tangled with the town for hosting Woodstock reunions for years in his field, is moving on.
The property also includes a 5,000-square-foot farmhouse and 7,000-square-foot barn, on which is painted “Yasgur.” There’s also an 18-foot-tall Paul Bunyan statue at the edge of the field.
Between August 15 and 17, 1969, 400,000 people packed the field to hear headliners that included Jimi Hendrix and the Who. The field was a hastily chosen backup after promoters were rejected by officials in Woodstock, the Catskill Mountains arts colony that gave the festival its name.
