Known as Knollcroft, the building includes the restored Queen Anne House, a coach house, pump house and jumping pond.
This Queen Anne Country Home, nestled on almost 20 hectares, presents a sunny and picturesque exterior. Dating from the 1880s, the outside of the Columbia County house is flooded in Sierd details that get a cheerful paint, while the interior has an excess of period details.
House Currently on the market And known as Knollcroft is on 2659 County Route 9 in New Concord, a historical hamlet that is part of East Chatham. The extensive area of the building includes the restored Queen Anne House, a pump house, coach house and large pond.
The house is located in the new Concord National Register Historic District, but it was first mentioned individually in the National Register in 1985. The nomination report Registers the original owner as George Chesterman and dates the house until 1880. There was an earlier house on the site with a Mansard roof, according to the report, until it was destroyed by fire and the current house was built. A little digging, now that records and newspapers are digitized, shows that the building date of 1880 has been eliminated for a few years and that the credit for the house actually lives with the next generation.
George Chesterman, a real estate speculator in New York City, bought the building in 1861 from the wonderfully mentioned Welcome R. Beebe and Vrouw Adaline. It served as a national retreat for George and wife Caroline to George’s death in 1883. A lithography published in 1878 shows their house together with a pump house and coach house, all enclosed behind a picket fence.
While George’s executors held an auction sales in 1886 For 25 hectares of land in New Concord, deed records for that year show that James Chesterman, one of the sons of George and Caroline, became the owner of the property. A card from New Concord from 1888 confirms this and shows J. Chesterman as the owner of the house and other real estate. James, a veteran of the civil war, probably benefited from his father’s real estate companies. The 1900 census simply mentions James as ‘capitalist’.
James spent a considerable amount that set up and decorated his new Concord house. According to the local newspaper, he spent the Chatham Republican, he spent “no less than $ 10,000 that adorn the interior.” He was also an art collector and showed “fine works of art” in the house.
Unfortunately it was all digested by a huge fire that burned the house on the ground in February 1888. Fortunately, no lives have been lost. James, a single gentleman, had left for a meeting in his lodge and the servants in the house, a cook and waitress, were able to flee. The coachman tried to enter the house to try to save valuable items, but the fire blocked his way. The newspaper reported the loss as an estimated $ 35,000. The house and its content, including the paintings, were insured. The cause of the fire was believed To be a lamp That had exploded in the Butler’s pantry.
Within a few months, two different local builders were mentioned as possible the contract to build a new house for James on the same site. By May he certainly decided to rebuild and the local builder Lewis Coon received the contract to convert A ‘precious house.”By October Masons were reported To be almost done with their work on the new home, but no further details about the house seem to have been published.
However, a sketch of the house made it into print in 1897. The sketch shows the facade of the house just as it appears today, with its complex roof line, wrapping veranda, shingles, roof crack and graceful flowering. The only details that seem to be missing are small pinnacles that adorn the veranda and the main facade.
In the same year, a deed shows that James sold his house to Henry Bedlow and moved to nearby rating, where he died in 1905. Bedlow did not have the building long, and there was a sequence of owners afterwards. It is not clear when the name Knollcroft was first associated with the building, but it seems to appear in pressure until the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1904, Brooklyn Hat manufacturer Robert Macfarland bought the real estate. He and wife Emily lived with their children On Trendy St. Marks Avenue In Crown Heights and used the new Concord building as their country house. Gossipy Blurbs in the newspapers of Brooklyn and Columbia County mentions the couple that Zomert in Knollcroft in the first decade of the 20th century. The couple owned the building until 1924.
Just like the outside, the interior shows the restoration work of the sellers, who have had the property for decades. The interior -filled interior includes geometric pattern board ceilings, coats, stained glass and more. The approximately 3,325 square foot house has eight bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms.
The main level includes a salon, library and dining room in the front of the house and an updated kitchen in the rear wing. Each of the public rooms comprises a cloak. The Salon Mantel has a fretwork bog and a tile edge.
The list photo for the dining room shows off the decorative ceiling and gives a glimpse of the cloak with mirror and trash.
A view of the kitchen shows an updated space in country style with a peninsula and chairs with bar. The room has access to a veranda.
Above the bedrooms are plentiful. Some have painted wooden floors and at least one cloak is shown in the photos. One bedroom connects itself with a petite sewing room with stained glass in the upper wings of the windows. Two of the bathrooms have claw football.
Outside, the site includes remaining planting around the house and the pump house. The latter is in view of the veranda and the nomination of the National Register speculates that it can date from the earlier house. The pump inside was still in a working state at the time of nomination.
The lawn around the house makes way for a trees -filled landscape. An aerial photo shows a path that leads to the spring -filled pond.
New Concord is located between the communities on the water along the Hudson River and cities in the Berkshires in the east. It is about a 30 -minute drive to the Amtrak station in Hudson, New York, and about the same distance in the opposite direction to attractions such as Tanglewood and Mount, the former country house of Edith Wharton in Lenox, Mass.
Mentioned by Kelcey Otten from Compass, the building costs $ 1.25 million.
[Photos via Compass unless noted otherwise]
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