353 Haas Hill Road

Section 28, Block 5, Lot 22 on the Greene County tax map: 148.2 acres on Haas Hill Road, classed 240, a rural residence with acreage. The post office files it under West Coxsackie and the portals under Climax, but the parcel itself sits in the Town of New Baltimore, the town cut out of Coxsackie in 1811, and its school district is Greenville's. The deed on file dates from March 2017, when the compound last changed hands. Everything the present owners did to it came after that.

The roll carries no architect for any of the three structures, and none is claimed. What the record and the listing agree on is the era: the main house, the two-story cottage and the pool cabin were all raised in the late 1940s, and all three have been renovated in the years since the 2017 deed. The main house holds 2,700 of the compound's roughly 4,000 square feet. The cottage stands down a stone path from it, two floors of pine boards and exposed beams with a kitchenette and a full bath. The cabin sits at the pool, green-painted floors under a vaulted ceiling of thick beams, with a loft, a kitchenette and a full bath of its own. Five bedrooms and five baths across the three.

The house is entered through a mudroom of slate floors and wood panelling, a long peg rail and bench along one wall and an oversized closet for coats and equipment; a sliding door gives onto the utility room, with laundry, a worktop, shelving and a deep sink. The kitchen carries a charcoal AGA range, a hand-painted tile backsplash, terracotta tile floors on radiant heat, and built-in storage that includes a pantry. Its breakfast nook is built into the corner and looks across the pool to an old catalpa; a door lets out to the dining deck. The living and dining room is double height and holds the original fireplace, with wood storage built in beside it, and takes light from morning to evening. A powder room, a wallpapered office and a smaller family room complete the ground floor. Upstairs the primary suite has the unobstructed view, across the hills of the Mid-Hudson Valley to the mountains; a wallpapered children's room, a guest room and a second full bath share the floor.

The 148 acres run from a fenced wildflower garden and mature plantings into rolling meadow and forest, with a barn and an in-ground pool set among them. The county's bedrock map puts the whole parcel on the Hamilton Group, Devonian rock, and the federal elevation model reads about 660 feet at its centre; the Catskill escarpment stands fifteen to twenty miles to the southwest and the Hudson four miles to the southeast. The village of Coxsackie is minutes away, Hudson and its Amtrak station and the Albany airport each about thirty, and the city just under two and a half hours. The record says rural residence with acreage. The rest is the acreage.

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