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Country Retreat Home in East Meredith, NY

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Weekend Getaway!

Dreaming of Owning a second home!  
This Country retreat, has three separate home’s on 3.6 acres of lovely land.  Ideal for an Artist retreat and studio. Live in one house rent the other house for weekenders.  Home has great potential .
Additionally you can purchase for $180,000 – 95 acres. 
This home was the original Ulster & Delaware Railroad Depot which stopped running in 1954.  This property has 3 buildings.
The building has the original rooms from 1898, with the living room formerly the waiting room, and the telegraph section looking to the front, now good for a dining table. The ticket buying area is now a bathroom, complete with shower. In the back the baggage area has been made into two bedrooms, with doors out onto the decks in front and back of the Depot. An oil furnace is in the cellar along with pump from artesian well in the yard.
The second building is off the back.  The deck continues to the newer building (1980-81) with steps coming up along a rhododendron bush. This building is heated by electric panels and a wood stove. Upstairs are kitchen, dining area, pull-out couch, built-in bookshelves, two closets. An office and bathroom (with tub and shower) complete the upstairs.  Downstairs are two bedrooms, with three skylights and large windows out to the Creek.
A third building was completed in 2000, A garage with two doors and space for tools and gardening equipment.  The upstairs Studio is a large open space with Kitchen, wood burning stove and bathroom.  Studio has a  large window overlooking the gardening beds below and over to the other two buildings. Heat is supplied by a propane gas stove with a large fan that distributes the heat effectively.
The home has two parking spaces off the tracks, which is now a road with gravel. The lane cuts through the trees from County Rte.10 and continues along Kortright Creek. Spirea bushes ending with a hydrangea tree are on the parking side of the Depot and grey pavers are under the overhanging roof.  Town taxes $7,496  School taxes $2,052.19.
Home is on 395.98 Acres
about 3.30 hours from NYC.
The home is just down the road from the Hanford Mills Museum.  Hanford Mills Museum is a historic grist mill and sawmill and national historic district in East Meredith.  http://www.hanfordmills.org/

Neighborhood:East Meredith, NY
Price:$265,000Lot Size:
Year Built:1898Driveway:yes
Rooms:Garage:two car
Bedrooms:5Taxes:$7,496
Bathrooms:3Basement:
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