Older than the town
The listing dates the house to 1787. That puts it a quarter century ahead of Red Hook itself: the land had been inside the Rhinebeck Precinct since 1737, and Red Hook did not become a separate township until June 2, 1812. Whoever raised this farmhouse did it in Rhinebeck, on a county road that runs from Red Hook into Milan and carries the name of the Spring Lakes on that town line. Nothing in the county record contradicts the date, and nothing sharpens it either; the assessment roll carries the acreage and the deed, not the year. We take 1787 on the listing's word and note that the house looks the part.
What has not been erased
The Dutch door still opens in two halves, hung on what the listing calls patty-pan hinges. Inside, the wood floors, the period hardware and the exposed structure were left alone, and a generous fireplace anchors the main living space. The three bedrooms and two baths sit inside about 1,870 square feet, a farmhouse still at farmhouse scale. The kitchen is the one modern room, updated in a clean, understated way that defers to the older work around it, and a screened porch extends the living space out toward the surrounding landscape on summer evenings.
The land and the barn
Just under five acres, with mature trees and established plantings around the house and an original three-bay barn that the listing rightly calls a layer of possibility. A walk-out basement and room for three cars round out the practical side. Bard College and the center of Red Hook are minutes off, Rhinebeck and Hudson within easy reach, and Amtrak at Rhinecliff runs to Penn Station. Annual taxes are a little over eleven thousand dollars.
