Woodstock co-founder’s longtime home listed for sale – ahead of famous festival’s 55th anniversary

The longtime home of the late Michael Lang, a co-creator of the famed 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, has been listed for sale — and not long before the famous event’s 55th anniversary, which is this Sunday.

Lang called this Hudson Valley property his home for 45 years and lived there until his death at the age of 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 asking $2.43 million, Mansion Global first reported. (Notably, the Woodstock festival was actually held about 40 miles southwest of the city, in Bethel, New York.)

Officially named Happy Brooks, the complex is “the Graceland of 1960s counterculture,” according to the listing, which is repped by Chris Pomeroy and Nancy Felcetto of Brown Harris Stevens.

Since the main house was built for 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 who either lived there or stayed there or created there.â€

During the decades that Lang resided there in particular, a host of star-studded musicians could often be found there.

Today, Happy Brooks features three main structures, all made of stone, wood “and imagination,” the listing says. Shortly after the main residence was built for Anderson, a guest house and cottage were also erected on the land in 1933.

Highlights of the main house include a double-height great room equipped with a balcony, an upper-level library, a large bluestone fireplace, a formal dining room with mountain views, and a family room with a built-in oven. Also, there is a reading room set behind stained glass doors and a conservatory with a 24-foot glass ceiling.

Beyond a central courtyard is the guest house, which features two bedrooms, a living room and a “built-in collection of Fu dogs and gilded wood carvings collected from travels in China.”

The third stone structure has two additional bedrooms and is attached to a three-bay garage and a greenhouse in need of restoration.Â

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.