The sawmill was built early on; Bolton Brown lived there and did numerous sketches and lithos of it.

Here is a rare 1951 photograph of the ORIGINAL SAWMILL on Sawkill Stream occupied by Woodstock Impressionist E.J. Gold and family, showing the kitchen on the bottom floor, storage basement to the right; upstairs was an enormously long room with a fireplace big enough to accommodate an entire full-length tree trunk. Jutting out from the main building above the storage area is the wheel room, which in the 1950's was the focal point of Woodstock social life; it easily contained a ping-pong table, and it was roomy enough for 30 to play round-robin or to watch a tournament-level big-stakes (a 25 cent bet was the limit) game.