Once in a Lifetime ~ Spencertown, New York

Simple elegance, quiet and unpretentious.  On 96 Acres, protected by conservation easement, this stately and wonderfully comfortable house dating originally from 1784 has been “updated” in 1928 with stucco exterior and latticed windows.  Center Hall stairway, Living room w/fpl, Dining room w/fpl, Kitchen w/fpl,, side room, lavatory, Laundry, and attached woodshed/work room all on the 1st floor.  2d floor has two large Bedrooms w/fpls, two additional Bedrooms (one w/fpl), two Bathrooms, and a hidden room above the woodshed.  Full Attic and Basement. Stone front terrace.  2-car garage with attic area, stucco studio/stable building, and stone garden house.  Spectacular woodland stream with waterfalls cascading and running past the outbuildings and house to a superb pond with dam and waterfall.  Stone walls, wooden bridge, long private drive off town-maintained dirt road.  Flowering trees and shrubs and decorative plantings and perennial gardens.  Just minutes from Chatham/Taconic Parkway, and Harlemville/Hawthorne Valley Farm Store and private school.  15-20 minutes to Great Barrington and Berkshires.  2+ hrs. NYC. 

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