Semi-Secluded Cottage Just Steps from New Paltz Village, $275K

  |  November 12, 2020

In this 1920s cottage on nearly a half-acre, you won’t need to choose between country living and staying close to civilization. 

The listing boasts that there is just one visible neighbor from the well-maintained two-bedroom cottage in the village of New Paltz, NY, and, apparently, the residents are hardly around. For those of us who love to get a little space between ourselves and the next guy, this is an attractive prospect.

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The attractive prospects don’t stop with its location. The continue with the cottage’s double front doors, leading into an enclose porch…

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…which opens into the second-level of the home, which includes the living room, a small bedroom, and a large bedroom. This main level comes with wood floors throughout…

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…and, down on the ground level is a big kitchen and dining room, plus the home’s remodeled full bath.

Does your family include members of the furry variety? The fenced-in backyard provides some safe room for pets to blow off steam…

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…and, human-folk will appreciate the park-like, .4-acre yard with towering older trees and plenty of sunny patches to garden. The property also includes a storage shed. From here, the center of New Paltz is less than an a mile, and it’s on the western fringe of the Mill Brook Preserve while across Route 32 is the Nyquist-Harcourt Wildlife Sanctuary on the Wallkill River.

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Does this 1920s cottage look like your sanctuary? Find out more about 78 Prospect Street, New Paltz, NY from Matthew Eyler.

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