Workshops

Sparrow House NY is a historic Hudson Valley house for workshops, retreats, and creative gatherings.

Our restored 1800s Carpenter Gothic home in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York is designed for you to make things. Come host your offsites, artist residencies, wellness gatherings, lectures, intimate dinners and magical weekends you’ll remember forever.

Part historic inn, part creative sanctuary, part softly haunted farmhouse, I built this place for people who want to gather with intention.

A Creative Retreat Space in the Hudson Valley

Whether you’re hosting a writing circle, textile workshop, herbalist class, movement session, team meeting, garden dinner party or a weekend dedicated to simply reimagining your life, this house was made for it.

Located just outside New York City in the historic village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, Sparrow House NY offers flexible indoor and outdoor gathering space for:

  • Creative retreats

  • Wellness workshops

  • Artist Residencies

  • Craft weekends

  • Corporate offsites

  • Small business gatherings

  • Community events

  • Day retreats

  • Writers’ or musicians’ workshops

  • Herbalism & gardening classes

  • Yoga, meditation & soundbath retreats

  • Food, textile & craft workshops

  • Farm-to-table dinners & seasonal gatherings

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The perfect property

Sparrow House was built as a personal sanctuary for artists, writers, musicians, gardeners, cooks, performers, makers and curious people who need space to think and imagine.

The property includes:

  • A restored 3,000 square foot Carpenter Gothic Victorian Home

  • Nearly 2 acres of gardens & outdoor gathering space

  • Firepit & outdoor dining areas

  • Greenhouse & flower/herb gardens

  • Whimsical Chicken Haus for our flock of hens known as The Goldhen Girls

  • Free farm-fresh eggs

  • Creative indoor common spaces

  • Historic architectural details

  • Themed bedrooms

  • Flexible rooms for workshops, breakout sessions, meals & overnight stays

  • Parking for up to (6) cars

  • 10-minute drive from the Salisbury Mills-Cornwall Train Station on the NJ Transit (Port Jervis Line)

  • 19-min Uber/Lyft from the Beacon Train Station on the Metro North (Hudson Line)

Overnight retreats & weekend workshops

Designed for immersive weekends centered around creativity, restoration, collaboration, or learning. Guests stay onsite and move through shared meals, workshops, fireside conversations, garden walks and late-night plotting sessions together.

Perfect for:

  • Writing retreats

  • Artist residencies

  • Songwriting weekends

  • Textile intensives

  • Wellness retreats

  • Gatherings for womens’ and LGBTQIA groups

  • Leadership retreats

  • Philosophy & creativity workshops

  • Creativity recovery weekends

  • Seasonal ritual gatherings

Day workshops & community gatherings

Sparrow House offers intimate daytime workshop space for local gatherings, lectures, classes, demonstrations, community circles and hands-on learning experiences. Day rentals run 7am-10pm.

Perfect for:

  • Craft workshops

  • Small lectures & talks

  • Gardening classes

  • Foraging workshops

  • Cooking & baking classes

  • Candlemaking

  • Meditation sessions

  • Community dinners

  • Creative meetups, readings & rehearsals

  • Wellness events

  • Small, business off-sites

  • Creative & wellness experiences

Custom gatherings designed with atmosphere in mind

Some events are less about productivity and more about transformation, curiosity, beauty and permission to try something new.

Maybe you have an idea centered around:

  • Writing, poetry & storytelling

  • Movement & dance

  • Textiles, quilting, weaving, knitting & dying

  • Gardening & seed-starting

  • Herbalism, tinctures & wildcrafting

  • Crystals, ritual, symbolism & The Tarot

  • Seasonal living & homemaking

  • Creativity & life design

  • Slow living & analog Rituals

  • Rest as practice

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Thinking about enrolling? Curious which program might be the right fit? Or maybe you’d like to stroll the campgrounds and see the magic in person. Whatever you’re looking for, we’re here to help.