The farmhouse that outlived its farm
The listing dates the house to 1865 and describes it as the homestead at the center of a 200-acre farm, and the MLS record carries the same year. The fields are long gone, but the house kept 1.46 acres across two tax parcels in Roosevelt Park, enough for a circular drive with a third exit to the side street, hydrangea beds, open lawn and a canopy of mature trees. The facade is clapboard, freshly repainted this summer, with the bracketed eaves, arched and pedimented gable windows and projecting bays the listing reads as Italianate.
Center hall, eleven-foot ceilings
Inside is a center-hall plan under 11-foot ceilings, lit on every elevation by floor-to-ceiling windows, with original crown moldings and millwork throughout. At 5,221 square feet the house holds five to six bedrooms and three and a half baths, a large eat-in kitchen, a full basement outfitted as a gym and an attic the listing calls ballroom-scale. A semi-separate two-level wing, with two of the bedrooms, a full bath and its own living room, can stay part of the house as guest quarters or be closed off as an accessory dwelling unit.
A rear porch sits under the trees, and a three-car garage is placed to screen the property from the side-street entry.
Minutes from the Stockade
The house is minutes from Kingston's Uptown Stockade District, the 32 acres Peter Stuyvesant had palisaded by 1658 and where, in 1777, the convention that established New York State sat. Taxes are listed at $18,318 a year.
