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Small-Estate Privacy & Seclusion
Under 2 Hours from Manhattan
Minutes From the Fabled Neversink Gorge
Bordering 5,466 Acres of Forever-wild State Land
Distinguished Home Designed by Eugene Schoen
Private Swimming and Non-Motorized Boating
Exclusive Fishing on a Deluxe Bass Pond
Wilderness Hideaway with Abundant Wildlife
20 minutes from Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
5 minutes from Monticello Motor Club
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If you’ve been looking at real estate ads you may be wary of the listings for "sportsman’s dream," "hideaway retreat," "secluded home," fabulous lakefront," and all those references to living on "Golden Pond." Perhaps you know the trivia tidbit that the movie On Golden Pond wasn’t filmed on a pond at all, but on an 8,000-acre lake replete with motorboaters, jet-boat riders, waterskiers, and today even tour boats.
Want to really be on a fabulous, secluded, heavily wooded, good fishing and non-motorboating body of water? Not too far from amenities or the highway? Not too far from the metropolitan area? Want to leave the city on a summer Friday evening and be relaxing on the water, rod in hand, well before the sun sets? Want to watch abundant wildlife right outside the dining room windows? This property offers all of that and much more. Calling it "unique" is an understatement.
No less an authority than Frank Lloyd Wright recommended that property seekers should buy the environment, since you can always change the house in a beautiful environment, but you can't change the environment with a beautiful house. While other waterbodies in the Catskills are crammed with houses, or often without water (!), this property is exactly what we say it is; it features a modernized, warm, comfortable country home in a phenomenal location. It's best for independent-minded people who appreciate a well-built older country home, enjoy varied forms of all-season outdoor recreation, and desire a private country property that is not situated in a gentrified development.
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This matchless property, located in Forestburgh, the least-densely populated town in Sullivan County’s Catskills, was originally part of a fishing and hunting estate that belonged to several renowned industrialists-businessmen-sportsmen.
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The 6-bedroom, 4-bath 2,800-square-ft. house, built like a then-contemporary lodge in 1940, was designed by noted Art Moderne designer Eugene Schoen and prominently featured in the April 1942 issue of Architectural Forum magazine.
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A "mini-estate" at 9.64 acres, the property is accessed via a private 1/2-mile-long driveway, borders 5,466 acres of state land and a private 1,500-acre preserve, and has 475 feet of frontage on a superb 48-acre private fishing and boating pond.
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$899,000
Shown to Pre-Qualified Parties By Appointment Only
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