Singer Ray LaMontagne Lists MA Home For $5.25 Million

ASHFIELD, MA — The folksy singer-songwriter tunes of Ray LaMontagne make it easy for listeners to picture a brisk day in the countryside, preferably at golden hour. Apparently, LaMontagne viewed himself in that setting as well when he and his wife purchased their expansive Ashfield estate in 2008.

LaMontagne and his wife, poet Sarah Sousa, have listed the residence, set on 104 acres and comprising nearly 11,000 square feet, for sale at $5.25 million.

The home itself features a gorgeous setting with plenty of amenities, and but also includes a bit of history for fans of LaMontagne's music.

According to a listing, the home's great room has been used as a recording studio since 2010, when LaMontagne recorded “God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise”. The album, of course, won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Over the past decade, LaMontagne has recorded four of his subsequent albums in the space, the listing said.

About The House

The main home — which has been updated since the couple purchased it in 2008 — totes early 19th century Neoclassical architecture, a 1920s European estate style and the structure and systems of the 21st century.

According to the listing:

"The compound encompasses a main residence comprising five bedrooms, five baths, and nearly 11,000 square feet, an expansive three-level barn, a two-story finished post and beam barn with kitchenette and half bath, a stone cottage, and a 1920s-era three-bay garage, each with radiant heat and well-appointed interior, suitable for myriad hobbies and pastimes, whether they be antique cars, gardening, or horses. All of the buildings have been renovated over the past 15 years with painstaking skill and care, which involved rebuilding as necessary or desired, insulation, new electrical, heating, and plumbing systems, structural and cosmetic work, new kitchen and baths, a new foundation and concrete flooring in the big barn, radiant heat in each of the outbuildings, and a good deal more."

Known as the Bullitt Estate, a farmhouse was built on the property around 1811, and a European-style great room and additional living quarters were added in the 1920s, according to a listing.

The home was built by a local farming family, but was purchased in the early 1920s by William Bullitt, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia and France, who used it as a summer retreat.

Eventually, Bullit's daughter, Anne, gifted 265 acres of the existing estate to Trustees of Reservations, forming the Bullitt property’s current 104 acres.

Beyond the 265 acres is the 173-acre Chapel Brook reservation. Altogether, the 438 acres of conserved open land and forests surrounding the estate provide "unparalleled protection and privacy, as well as miles of walking trails and access to Chapel Falls Brook and Pony Mountain," the listing said.

For more information on the property and its history with the famous and the art world, click here.

Photos of the property are included below: