Seneca Falls, N.Y. — Imagine living on your own private nature preserve with miles of trails, a pond to kayak on and wildlife to observe while sitting on the patio.
If this kind of rustic setting appeals to you, the majestic four-bedroom, 3,214-square-foot Italianate-style home at 2202 Black Brook Road in Seneca Falls might be worth a look. Situated on 95 woodsy acres with walking paths and a large pond with two small islands, the single-family home is selling for $750,000.
Built in 1862, the house was restored and modernized by the sellers, who purchased the property in 2006.
“They rehabbed it from the ground up,” said Kelly Spurlock, a licensed real estate broker at Hunt Real Estate ERA in Akron. “It was in pretty poor condition.”
The house has a year-round sunroom, central air, water piped to the garage, chimneys and two fireplaces installed in 2017. At the top of the home is a cupola that overlooks the grounds and makes for a comfortable, well-lit reading nook. The wiring and plumbing were redone during the lengthy rehabilitation process, which also saw the addition of a garage and the construction of the pond.
“(The owners) tried to keep the historic feel about the house,” Spurlock said. “There was an outhouse on the property, and if you look in the downstairs bathroom, there’s a piece of wood on the wall with three holes in it. That was the old outhouse seats.”
Located in the Finger Lakes, the house is walkable to the hamlet of Seneca Falls, home of the first Women’s Rights Convention in 1848 and believed by some to have been the inspiration for the fictional town Bedford Falls in the classic Frank Capra film “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
The house is a “magical place,” Spurlock said. “You can sit on the back patio and watch the deer and geese.”
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