668 Route 44 55

A stately canvas with ample room for your imagination: This 2-house retreat on a lushly shaded site is ready for a new chapter after being built, owned and lovingly maintained by one family for no less than 100 years. And that new chapter could be amazing, with some simple creativity and updates. The main house is a gracious center-hall design with an enormous family kitchen and formal dining room plus a symmetrically balanced front-to-back living room on the ground floor, four sunny bedrooms upstairs, plus an additional five rooms and half bath on the finished third floor. The river-stone post fence at the front entrance opens to a circular driveway that winds through a lovely yard of mature trees and hedges, with a perfect vantage point to take it all in: the deep end-to-end front porch. Just across the bluestone back patio is a separate 2-story garage ripe for reinvention. It all combines to offer big space and even more potential, seriously convenient to NYC, New Paltz, Poughkeepsie and MetroNorth rail service.