Known today as Sky Lodge, the Lodge was originally dubbed "Grecyja Farms" when it was built by the Faucher family in 1927. The Lodge was built as a weekend retreat from Rochester, where the family owned Faucher Ironworks. Much of the original ironwork remains throughout the building.

In 1957, thirty years after its construction, the Lodge was sold to Theophile Brauch, a German immigrant who was a baker in Rochester. It was in Rochester that the Brauch family met another German immigrant, Berta Freese. This meeting would help determine the fate of the Lodge.
	The nameplate built into the fireplace with the original name of the lodge "Grecyja Farm."

Berta immigrated to America in 1957, widowed during World War II. She came along with her newly-married daughter and son-in-law, Gertraud and Otto Kopf. Initially, Berta disliked Rochester and was intensely homesick for her native home. She made plans to return as soon as she'd saved up enough money for a ticket back. Being a very religious woman, however, Berta soon joined a German-American church, where she met the Brauchs. They learned of her homesickness and began taking her with them on their weekend trips to the Lodge. Berta quickly fell in love with the Lodge and the Bristol Hills and decided to remain in America. Otto and Gertraud raised three sons (Pete, Tom, and Mark) in the Rochester area.

Tom Kopf and his wife Julie moved to the Bristol Hills in 1992. They invited Tom's grandmother Berta to visit their new house shortly after moving in. Tom, not knowing anything about his grandmother's visits to the Bristol Hills, was shocked when Berta, who had never driven in her life, told him that she knew exactly where she was. Berta had Tom drive her the short distance from his house to the Lodge and introduced him to the place that had kept her from returning to Germany.

Fifteen years later, in the Fall of 2007, Tom and Julie purchased the Lodge from Martha Owens, who had inherited the cabin from her father, Theophile Brauch in 1987. In a strange twist of fate, the Lodge allowed Tom to not only discover Sky Lodge, but meet his grandmother. Had Berta not met the Brauch family and been introduced to the Bristol Hills, she would have returned to Germany and never met her grandson or introduced him to the Lodge.

Tom and Julie have made renovations to the Lodge, restoring it to its former glory and adding a few modern conveniences.

We hope that you will fall as in love with Sky Lodge and the Bristol Hills as Berta did all those years ago ...