Staatsburg Schoolhouse, $259,500

  |  November 8, 2012

Well, it’s turning into fixer-upper week here on Upstater. We figure since the storm of the century is now hitting at least twice every year, perhaps your best bet is to buy something with good bones and make it as green as possible: heavily insulated, passive solar, reclaimed lumber, collected rainwater, and so on.

So here’s a candidate: the old schoolhouse in Staatsburg, which is about equidistant between Rhinebeck and Poughkeepsie and thus nicely situated between Amtrak and MetroNorth stops (albeit east of those towns, too). And a short hop from the Taconic.

It needs serious work, folks, but it has a lot going for it, in size, location and original wood beams. There are fireplaces and French doors, four bedrooms, two baths and a laundry room. It sits on three acres.

17 Schoolhouse Road, Staatsburg, NY. Prudential Serlis. GMAP.

 

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