Shepherd's Run

Shepherd’s Run is the adaptive reuse of a former boarding school overlooking the Narrow River, a tributary of Narragansett Bay.

Working with a conservation-minded developer, Centerbrook is reimagining a 1930’s Norman Romanesque stone manor house and 1960’s residential buildings – with grounds designed by the famed landscape architect Beatrix Farrand – as a boutique resort hotel. We drew inspiration from Babylonstoren, a farm retreat in Cape Town, South Africa whose visitors can harvest from vegetable gardens and stay in the hotel, farm house, manor house, and cottages on the idyllic property.

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Shepherd's Run

Location South Kingstown, RI
Features adaptive reuse
Photo Credit Warren Jagger Photography
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Visitors to Shepherd’s Run are graced with outdoor gathering spaces that include a formal courtyard for weddings and special events, firepits, meadows, and a vineyard. A bar, restaurant, and events hall spill onto the courtyard enclosed by the manor house and the residential buildings, whose institutional appearance is masked by a trellis of ivy and hydrangea.

Future phases, which include small bungalows dotting the landscape, will complete the project and fully realize another special destination along Rhode Island’s south shore.