60 River RoadHillsdale, NY 12529

Arrive home to River Road, onto your own private drive with gates overlooking mountain ridges, tall pines and a private pond with dock. The garden is embraced by a charming semicircular drive and gravel terrace. The entrance of this enchanting and romantic home is welcoming through the covered wraparound porch with its fieldstone front steps worn with a hundred years of use and classic bay windows. This c1890 clapboard farmhouse is magical perfection in its details and beautifully restored. The 20 acre property is out of a fairytale with bucolic open fields, forest and stream. The wraparound porch is perched above the lovely stream, offering peace and tranquility with the calming sound of running water, including an outdoor wood burning fireplace. Entertain in your large living room anchored by a magnificent stacked stone fireplace, built generations ago and newly lined for use. The dining room offers double french doors opening up to a spectacular deck overlooking the garden and with the sounds of the babbling brook. You can awake to savor your morning rituals from the gourmet kitchen, with its surrounding views of the pond, the garden and mature trees. Tucked around a corner on the first floor is a snug room with beautiful forest views which could be utilized as an office or fourth bedroom with a full bath. Upstairs you'll find three ensuite bedrooms spread out across the second and third floors. The new bathrooms are all appointed with soaking tubs and showers. The south facing bedroom features another stacked stone fireplace and several bay windows, the north facing bedroom features beautifully vaulted ceilings, and the third floor suite has an additional office area, a walk in closet, and side-by-side sinks in the bathroom. Each window, all new, offers a whimsical, pastoral view of a stream, a pond, a sun drenched field, forest. There is much to fall in love with at River Road, be it the land or the house. A separate studio lies up the hill, used for creative projects by the current owners but open for future possibilities. This incredibly charming property is just 10m to the village of Hillsdale, 15m to Great Barrington and 2h to NYC.