The Town's Count Is 1843
The town carries this house as built in 1843, style code 08, Old style, the catch-all an assessor uses when there is no architecture to assign. No architect, builder or first owner appears in the record. What the parcel has instead of a maker is a road named for something else. Band Camp Road is named for the Ernest Williams Band and Orchestra Camp, which Williams built in the Catskill foothills and opened in June 1930.
Ten Weeks, June To August
Williams had been Sousa's cornet soloist and first trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski, and he wrote the first full symphony for band by an American. Percy Grainger, Ferde Grofe and Morton Gould came up this road in the summers, and Walter Rogers premiered a cornet trio called Echoes of the Catskills at the camp in 1936. Williams died in Saugerties in February 1947. The main building burned on May 1, 1948, and never went back up. The camp ground is a separate parcel at the far end of the road, and the farmhouse at 300 was already about 87 years old when the first season opened.
A House, Then A Cottage
The assessor's inventory for the farmhouse reads 2,093 square feet, three bedrooms, two full baths, well water, septic, hot water heat on oil. The advertised four bedrooms and three and a half baths describe the compound, not the house: three bedrooms and two and a half renovated baths inside, the fourth bedroom and third full bath in the one-bedroom guest cottage, rebuilt structurally, its bath in Tundra Gray marble under Charlotte Perriand sconces. A Shaw sink and a Bertazzoni range anchor the new kitchen wing. The rest of the work is infrastructure: electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, Marvin windows, two new septic systems, a 200-amp panel, and underground service to the cottage and garage.
Eight Months Of Arithmetic
An LLC in Wappingers Falls bought the property on January 13, 2026, for 415,000 dollars and relisted it on September 11 at 1,645,000, a 296 percent increase. Saugerties assesses at 100 percent of value, and its 2026 final roll puts the full market value of all 4.50 acres at 477,000 dollars, with no exemptions and the parcel still classed as one single-family residence. The land holds no mapped stream, pond or wetland. It sits in FEMA Zone X, about 640 feet from the nearest special flood hazard area, and roughly 1.1 miles outside the Catskill Park.
