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Converted Rhinebeck Barn 329K
IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I PLAYED AROUND on the Columbia Northern Dutchess Multiple Listing site. It’s the best MLS I know — it actually covers a wide range of upstate New York counties, and allows you to search on … Continue reading →
Posted in HUDSON VALLEY, PROPERTIES FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
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Tagged 1700s, barn, conversion, converted, Dutch, Dutchess County, post and beam, Rhinebeck, upstate New York
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Down on the Farm
BET YOU CAN’T GUESS — unless you noticed the tags– the location of that rustic-looking barn, above. Well, I’ll tell ya. It’s the Prospect Park Zoo here in Brooklyn. I went there yesterday for the first time in years (first … Continue reading →
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Tagged African pygmy goat, alpacas, barn, Cotswold sheep, farm animals, Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Park, zoo
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Historic Rhinebeck under 400K
THE CHELSEA CLINTON WEDDING EFFECT on real estate prices in Rhinebeck, N.Y., if ever there was to be one, seems like a non-starter. As we head into the best time of year for house-hunting — the dead of winter, when … Continue reading →
Posted in HUDSON VALLEY, PROPERTIES FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
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Tagged 1830s, 1840s, Bard College, barn, brick, Carpenter Gothic, Chelsea Clinton, farmhouse, Federal, Federal-style, historic, house-hunting, Hudson River, HUDSON VALLEY, mid-Hudson Valley, Montgomery Street, Paul Hallenbeck, REAL ESTATE, Rhinebeck, Village
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Upstate Farmhouses, Acreage, 650K+
IF EVER THERE WAS A ‘BACK ROAD,’ it’s Starbarrack Road in Red Hook, N.Y., a little-traveled, winding two-laner with nothing on it but old houses and barns. In northern Dutchess County, heart of the Hudson Valley, Starbarrack Road is a … Continue reading →
Posted in HUDSON VALLEY, PROPERTIES FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
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Tagged apple orchard, barn, Catskill views, Dutchess County, farmhouse, farmhouses, fireplaces, Greek Revival, hamlet, HUDSON VALLEY, mountain views, outbuildings, porch, Red Hook, smoke house, Starbarrack Road, summer kitchen, Victorian, vintage, vinyl siding, wideboard floors
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FSBO: 1830s Huguenot House in New Paltz 360K
A READER alerted me to this very vintage cedar-sided cottage on 9+ acres, five miles from the town of New Paltz in Ulster County, N.Y. It’s on the market with an asking price of 360K. Built for tenant farmers in … Continue reading →
Posted in CATSKILLS, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, PROPERTIES FOR SALE
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Tagged 1830s, barn, beehive oven, cedar, cottage, hand-hewn, Huguenots, ice house, New Paltz, Ulster County, wideboard floors
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1840s North Fork Farmhouse, 23.6 Acres, $1.2million
LOOK WHAT’S STILL ON THE MARKET: one of my favorite houses from last winter’s house-quest. Only now they’re advertising it for $1.2 million; last winter it was $499,000. How can that be? Oh, well. The new pricing, less disingenuous than … Continue reading →
Bottom-Fishing on the East End
I’VE BEEN GETTING FED UP with house prices here in the Humptons. Yesterday my friend Debre and I stumbled upon an old farmhouse with a ‘For Sale’ sign on Old Stone Highway in Springs, below, found the door open (!) … Continue reading →
Posted in BOTTOM FISHING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND, NORTH FORK, PROPERTIES FOR SALE
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Tagged 1940s, barn, beach cottage, Breezy Shores, bungalow, Craftsman, Domino magazine, East End, farmhouse, Greenport, marina, North Fork, Old Stone Highway, Sag Harbor, South Fork, Springs
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