From agriculture to amazing architecture, the Rochester Barn, Home and Garden Tour offered participants an opportunity to visit unique sites and drive along the town’s scenic two-lanes.

Organized by the Rochester Land Trust, the self-guided tour featured six stops that each had a different focus.

At Foss Farm, traditional cedar shingles hide high tech, energy efficiency. Built between 2005 and 2008, owners Mark Whalen and Randall Elgin, wanted a home that would conserve energy.

Styrofoam insulated concrete in the walls and basement of the house help draw heat in during the winter and out during the summer.

Concrete was also an important design element. The heated floors in the dining room are made of concrete disguised as giant tiles, and a trompe l’oeil technique on the base of the house makes the concrete look like stone.

“Concrete is a turnoff to women,” said Elgin, who was not thrilled about the extensive use of concrete at the beginning. “I took a class and learned about different treatments. There’s as lot you can do with concrete,” she said.

Another energy efficient home on the tour, Chet Rusinoski’s 7,000 square-foot house was designed by a stone mason and features unusual elements, including an antique carriage suspended from the 28-foot ceilings.

Rusinoski, who purchased the nearly finished home from the designer, said everything about the house is unique.

“There’s nothing structurally that can match this house,” he said.

Sterling Point Farm was an equally beautiful home, but this one is for horses. The large facility has a heated barn and offers cooled water to the, no doubt, spoiled horses.

Joe Carson and Bonnie Larity said they looked at a lot of places before choosing to board their stallion there.

“The facility is beautiful,” said Larity. “Every one is so nice, and they weren’t afraid to help us start a new horse.”

There were also horses to be seen at Englenook Farm, but somehow the big attention getters were the llamas, who stood nose to nose with many of the visitors for a friendly sniff.

Animal lover Joni Chipman has provided a sanctuary for llamas and other animals for 20 years. “Everybody got llamas because they thought they were going to be rich. It was insanity,” she said.

At Englenook, the llamas have plenty of space and also protect the farm’s chickens from coyotes. “They can do a 360 in half a heartbeat,” said Chipman.

The last stop on the tour was George Church’s Barn.

In 2009, Church built the structure to house his collection of antique farm and sawmill equipment. The barn, which functions as a museum, serves as a way to remember the past and his family’s own deep connection with Rochester.

Although Church donated much of his land to the Rochester Land Trust, he still lives on a parcel of the property where his family settled in the 1700s.

The Land Trust plans to use proceeds from the tour to acquire and preserve more land like Church’s.