The historic Sedgefield Stables and Barn has a new owner and a secure future ahead of it as a Montessori school. The building and its 1-acre site were sold June 3, 2025, by the Greensboro Historic Buildings Trust to Hensley Family Holdings.

The Giving Tree Montessori School is scheduled to open in the building in January 2026. It is now taking applications for students ages 18 months to six years old.

Funds from the sale have gone into the trust’s revolving fund for the purchase and resale of endangered historic properties.

The barn of the Sedgefield Stables and Showgrounds is all that remains of an 18-acre complex created as part of the prestigious Sedgefield development in the 1920’s. The Sedgefield Country Club offered country homes and recreational opportunities to residents and members, including a Donald Ross-designed golf course, horse riding and boarding facilities, social events and fox hunts.

The large, monitor-roof barn at Sedgefield Stables was built around 1927. The complex became home of the Sedgefield Horse Show in the mid-1930s and was the starting point of the annual Sedgefield Hunt. The barn was in continuous use from 1927 until 2021. Its 1-acre site was split off when the rest of the property was sold for redevelopment in 2022.