Rankin Art & Design Group LLC
Healing the land through architecture, agriculture, and time.
Todhunter Vineyards begins with land that has belonged to the family for generations—a landscape shaped by agriculture, memory, and, more recently, extraction. Over time, portions of the property were scarred by dumping and quarrying, leaving behind a dramatic cut into the earth where local stone had been removed.
Rather than erase that history, the design embraces it.
The former quarry becomes the heart of the vineyard—a place where the exposed geology, once a symbol of extraction, becomes part of the property's identity and its future. Architecture, vineyards, regenerative agriculture, and hospitality are carefully layered into the landscape, allowing damaged ground to heal while creating new reasons for people to gather here.
The broader master plan similarly imagines the quarry as a place of renewal rather than extraction.
The project is envisioned as a long-term act of stewardship: restoring the landscape, reducing its environmental footprint, and transforming previously scarred land into a productive vineyard and hospitality destination.
What was once taken from the land now becomes the foundation for giving something back—to the family, to the community, and ultimately to the land itself.
Beauty through Utility
Working architecture can still be beautiful.
Wine production, storage, agriculture, hospitality and gathering are not treated as separate worlds.
Instead, operational requirements become part of the architectural character.
The plan brings together winery production and storage with tasting, retail, private events, kitchen, flexible space and an outdoor terrace—allowing the working life of the vineyard to become part of the guest experience.
This creates a different kind of luxury: one rooted less in ornament and more in authenticity, materiality, craftsmanship and connection to how the place actually works.
A Modern Agricultural Vernacular
Familiar forms. Reinterpreted for a new generation.
Todhunter's architecture draws inspiration from the barns, working agricultural buildings and iron-framed structures of western Pennsylvania—not through imitation, but reinterpretation.
Simple volumes, exposed structure, durable materials and restrained detailing create a language that feels simultaneously agricultural and contemporary.
Building 03 establishes this vocabulary as a modern interpretation of the region's historic barns and iron-framed structures: pragmatic enough to support a working vineyard, yet refined enough to become the foundation of a future hospitality destination.
Architecture becomes the frame. The landscape becomes the destination.
