Wedding DJ at The Henry Connor Bost House in Salisbury, NC

The Space

Only three families have ever been connected to this property in over 150 years: the Bosts, who built it, the Kellys, and the Lomaxes, who still own it today. Henry Connor Bost built the two-story, center-hall Greek Revival farmhouse in 1869, not long after serving as a captain in the Ninth Regiment Cavalry during the Civil War. That single-family, single-lineage history is unusual for a venue this old, and it shows in how intact the house and grounds have stayed.

Dr. Donald Lomax and his wife Marie bought the property in 1961 as a country retreat, and their family fully restored it in 1993, keeping the farmhouse standing on 135 acres of rolling pastures and woodlands. The Lomax family opened the house and farm as an event venue in 2015, so the site has spent most of its life as a private home rather than a commercial one, which is part of why it still reads as a real farmhouse rather than a converted event hall.

Capacity & Layout

Seated capacity runs up to 100 guests, which places this squarely in intimate-wedding territory rather than a venue built for a large reception. For a couple planning their guest list, that number means tighter, more personal seating rather than a sprawling floor plan, and it also means the historic house itself, not a separate oversized barn, can remain the visual center of the day without feeling swallowed by the crowd.

Events use the main 1869 farmhouse, a weathered red barn, and a historic groomsmen’s cottage that the Lomax family moved onto the property from U.S. 601. Having three distinct structures on 135 acres means a couple can spread the day across them: getting ready in the cottage, ceremony near the house or barn, reception in whichever structure suits the guest count, rather than cramming every phase of the day into one room.

Amenities

The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and its acreage is protected by the Three Rivers Land Trust, meaning the rolling hills and woodlands around the house will not be developed or subdivided later. For a couple who wants their wedding photos to hold up decades from now, that protection is a practical guarantee that the pastures behind the farmhouse will look the same in twenty years as they do on the wedding day.

The driveway itself was once a section of the old Mocksville Trading Path, a route old enough that Daniel Boone would have used it, which sets the tone for a property where the history is not decorative but original to the ground. Some of the 135 acres are still actively farmed today, so guests arriving are driving onto a working farm as much as an event venue.

Location & Getting There

The house sits about 6 miles from Salisbury and less than 45 minutes from Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem, which puts it within easy reach of guests from any of North Carolina’s larger cities without asking them to drive deep into the countryside. That central location is part of why a Piedmont-area guest list can gather here without anyone facing an unreasonable trip.

Between the frame farmhouse, the red barn, and the cottage, sound behaves differently depending on which structure hosts the reception: the wood-frame house holds a warmer, softer sound suited to dinner and toasts, while the barn’s open interior needs a DJ setup built for a bigger, harder-surfaced room, so the choice of building shapes how the dance floor gets wired for the night.