About Liberty Village
Liberty Village began in concept in 1989 with a dedicated small group of Burning Souls who read about Cohousing in McCamant & Durrett’s new book, "Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves". The group searched for a site for 4 years while they recruited, grew, and coalesced about their vision of an inter-generational community where they could share a strong sense of community with mutual support and respect. The site was optioned in 1993, acquired in 1995, started development in 1998, and the first homes were moved in 1999.
Over the first ten years of living in community, we built and occupied four to six new homes each year until we now have 18 resident occupied homes and a few additional renters or home-shares. Children have attended local schools and been home schooled, thrived, gone to colleges and moved on to productive lives. Some founding residents have passed away and been honored and cherished in their absence. Six homes have been resold and newcomers welcomed warmly to our community. Live goes on and we support one another in many, many ways. We are moving forward in 2009 to sell 10 more lots and build another 10 homes and our Common House.
Community Room: The Common House in Liberty Village has not yet been built. In order to have space for community gatherings, the LVCA rents the basement in John Beutler and Emily Daniel’s house as the community room. The basement is a large, well finished space located in the center of the community. Community meals, business meetings, team meetings as well as social gatherings are held there. Community members take responsibility for cleaning and maintaining this space. There is a monthly sign-up sheet posted for volunteers to sign-up to clean the community room.
Most homes are semi-detached, side-by-side, to provide higher energy efficiency, greater affordability, and maintain the pedestrian character that makes Liberty Village easily walked and a delight for raising children. This leaves over 15 acres in common open space for our Village Green, wetland and woodland conservation, gardens, orchard, landscaping and other community uses. All available lots are semi-detached and we have many varieties of home plans that have been built here.