The Record
Malden House came to market on September 25 2026 under MLS 20265692, carried by Raj Kumar of Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty out of 423 Warren Street in Hudson. The record reads three bedrooms, three baths, 3,407 square feet and 1.56 acres, built 1765. The listing’s own accounting is slightly different and more useful: 2,300 square feet in the main house and 1,200 in the barn, which is how the property is actually lived in.
The postal geography is a mess and worth naming once. The hamlet is Riders Mills, the mailing address is Malden Bridge, the town is Chatham and the county is Columbia. Aggregators variously file the same parcel under Nassau, Old Chatham and Chatham. It is one property.
Mosher Mills, then Riders Mills
Quaker families settled this bend of the Kinderhook Creek in the early 1760s. The community took the name of one of them, Esek Mosher, and the house began as a one room country house in what was then Mosher Mills. The Rider family arrived later, and the hamlet took their name instead; the largest section of the house as it stands was likely built onto the original around the turn of the 19th century by the Riders. The scalloped trim and the other decorative millwork came toward the end of the 1800s.
Rolling hills, meadow and the creek running through made this a place of grist mills, trade and large farms. A flood in 1869 took most of the hamlet away. What is left (twenty contributing buildings, eight structures including a bridge, and eight archaeological sites that are mostly the foundations of vanished mills and houses) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Riders Mills Historic District on August 2 2000. The Register defines the district along NY 66, Bachus Road and Riders Mills Road.
The house
Both the farmhouse and the barn sit on thick fieldstone foundations, and the exterior elements run from the 1700s to the early 1900s. Inside, the first century of the house is still on show: floorboards two feet wide, hewn beams overhead, and hand built Shaker cabinetry that was restored rather than replaced.
The ground floor is social. The kitchen, built around a butter yellow AGA under a plastered hood, opens to the dining room and the living room, and a three season screened porch works as the warm weather extension of all three; it faces the barn across the lawn. A family room with beadboard walls and a fireplace sits at the back of the house, and a laundry and utility room, a full bath and a mudroom finish the floor. Upstairs are three bright bedrooms and a full bath in striking wood paneling with a deep soaking tub. The bedroom with the vaulted ceiling has its own stairwell, which is what makes it work for guests.
The barn
The 1,200 square foot barn is the property’s second act. Double height, immense beams, and light that comes in from every side. The main volume is one open living space with a wall of French doors onto a bluestone patio, and it is fully serviced (kitchen, full bath, loft), so it works as a guest house, an entertaining space, or a studio for anyone who needs a room this size.
The kitchen’s centerpiece is a salvaged triple soapstone farm sink, set on iron legs in the middle of the floor like a work table, which is a fair nod to what the building was for. A few steps beyond the barn, tucked toward the back of the land, is a small studio, currently a potting shed and workshop, with the obvious futures: office, another guest room, a poolhouse.
The grounds
Dry laid stone walls run through tall trees and planted gardens, and bluestone dining terraces skirt both buildings. A stone and sand path winds down through old trees and daffodils to a cleared beach on the property’s 500 feet of Kinderhook Creek frontage, where the swimming holes are. The dirt road past the house is the kind you walk rather than drive.
The stone foundation ruins on the grounds are what is left of the covered bridge that once carried the road across the creek from the north side to the south.
The work
The restoration was done with Jersey Ice Cream Co., the design partnership of Tara Mangini and Percy Bright, working since 2010. The listing credits them with the plaster finish on the walls of both buildings, the millwork throughout, and storage built out of reclaimed wood chosen to match the age of the house. The attribution is the listing’s; Malden House is not among the projects the firm publishes itself.
Chatham and Kinderhook are minutes away, Hudson and Great Barrington a little over half an hour, New York City two and a half.
