The Story
Three-bedroom house on 5.12 wooded acres off Timber Lake Drive, in Eldred, a hamlet in the Town of Highland at the western edge of Sullivan County. It is new construction, finished in 2026, and the third house Major Jacks and Wishbone have built together under the name Beyond the Black Box, after Heute Haus in Glen Spey and Bear Run in Narrowsburg.
The partnership is unusually close to this one. Erica Keberle is the listing agent, the seller, and the Major Jacks half of the design-build, which is to say the house was drawn, built and is now being sold by the same hand. What that buys the record is specificity: every choice here was made by someone who intended to live with it.
Inside
The plan arrives beneath a long roofline and releases into a great room anchored by a sunken living room, the midcentury lake-house move the house is openly drawn from. 2,815 square feet across three bedrooms and three baths, with customized cabinetry, a tiled fireplace stacked with split wood, sculptural lighting and a generous island in a kitchen built to be gathered around rather than cooked within.
A soaking tub sits under a window on the upper floor. Below, a finished lower level runs on polished concrete between structural columns and walks straight out to the treeline through glazed doors, furnished with vintage pieces and flat-woven rugs. The mix throughout is deliberate, contemporary against vintage, so the house reads as collected over time rather than assembled at once.
