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Key Details
Property Type Single Family Home
Sub Type Single Family Residence
Listing Status Active
Purchase Type For Sale
Square Footage 1,656 sqft
Price per Sqft $301
MLS Listing ID 1041085
Style Colonial
Bedrooms 4
Full Baths 1
Half Baths 1
HOA Y/N No
Rental Info No
Year Built 1964
Annual Tax Amount $8,798
Lot Size 0.454 Acres
Acres 0.4545
Property Sub-Type Single Family Residence
Source onekey2
Property Description
This house has been loved, and you feel it before you have taken three steps inside. Hardwood runs unbroken throughout. The light comes in soft and low, the rooms are warm and quiet and finished, and there is nothing waiting on you, no weekend you owe it first.
Then you reach the back and understand what you actually came for. The kitchen was rebuilt in white cabinetry and it opens into a wide sunlit room where French doors swing out onto a deck spanning the full width of the house. From May to October that door stays open. People drift outside with plates in their hands, the conversation follows them, and nobody comes back in until the light is gone. Below, the grass spreads flat and green to a stand of old trees, and by August you will see exactly where the game gets played.
Up the road, 10 minutes on foot, Craigville Park is going all season. Ball fields, soccer, lighted courts still busy well past dinner in July. Some evenings you can hear a crowd from the back of the house and decide to wander down and see who is out. The best part of a weekend here is already within earshot.
Upstairs, four bedrooms in a soft blue, every one of them a real room, so nobody has to make a case for theirs. The bath was redone with a deep navy vanity and an arched mirror, and it is prettier than it has any need to be. At night the upstairs goes quiet, doors closed along the hall, everybody in.
The village is 4 minutes down Craigville Road, close enough that it becomes your default without you deciding to. Saturday starts at Orange County Bagels, and the pizza from Amore's on West Main gets picked up on the drive back more often than you will admit. When a night calls for more, the Stagecoach Inn is where you go for drinks, a real dinner, or the party you would rather not host yourself. Friday mornings all summer the farmers market takes over the Government Center lawn. In March the county turns out for the Mid-Hudson St. Patrick's Parade, in May everyone lines the same curb again for Memorial Day, and by the second spring you will have a corner you stand on. The library has a local history room, museum passes, a Library of Things, and something on the calendar most weeks.
The seasons take care of themselves. Soons Orchards is 6 miles west for pumpkins and cider through October, and in December you end up doing the slow loop around the neighborhood with the heat on and the radio low, looking at everybody's lights. LEGOLAND New York sits 10 minutes away, which turns out to be a very easy answer whenever people come to visit.
Route 17 is right there, Campbell Hall puts you on the train in about 15, and Manhattan is 60 miles east on the days you want it.
Owning it stays simple. Natural gas heat, municipal water and sewer, and a garage. The basement runs the entire footprint, clean and dry, and it is the obvious place to finish later if you ever want the extra square footage.
Give it a year. What you will talk about is the deck in September with everyone out on it past dark, the neighbors you knew by name before you finished unpacking, and how quickly this stopped being the new address and started being home.
Location
State NY
County Orange County
Rooms
Basement Unfinished
Interior
Interior Features Chandelier, Double Vanity, Eat-in Kitchen, Formal Dining, Open Kitchen, Recessed Lighting
Heating Baseboard, Natural Gas
Cooling Wall/Window Unit(s)
Flooring Hardwood
Fireplace No
Appliance Dishwasher, Dryer, Microwave, Range, Refrigerator, Stainless Steel Appliance(s), Washer
Laundry In Basement
Exterior
Parking Features Driveway
Garage Spaces 1.0
Utilities Available Electricity Connected
Garage true
Private Pool No
Building
Sewer Public Sewer
Water Public
Level or Stories Two
Structure Type Brick,Vinyl Siding
Schools
Elementary Schools Scotchtown Avenue
Middle Schools C J Hooker Middle School
High Schools Goshen
School District Goshen
Others
Senior Community No
Special Listing Condition None
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