Perfect House Candidate #1: Claverack Colonial

  |  December 11, 2012

 

We’ve decided to take our cues this week from the reader in search of the perfect house.

If you recall, the criteria were:

  • waterfront (pond or lake, or, heck, river)
  • mountain views
  • not too close to neighbors
  • close enough to a down with decent coffee and good groceries
  • preferably somewhere between rhinebeck and hillsdale
  • in the $300,000 range

Is this it? Well, the price is right, it has a pond, skipping distance to Hudson, which has culture and coffee but is still working on the groceries. It sits on 10 acres, so satisfies the neighbor-distance requirement.

The house has some upgrades, though we’re not necessarily fond of them (we might rustic-ify that Formica in the kitchen, for instance), and it seems like it could use help in a couple of places, like the banner-less staircase and the wall-to-wall. But could it be just what our reader was looking for?

It has four beds, two baths and 2,300 square feet — plenty of room for visitors. And it’s $250,000. The one question is about the Taconic, which is pleasantly close for travel purposes, but hopefully not unpleasantly close for sound purposes.

71 Palmer Road, Claverack. Old Ghent Realty. GMAP.

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