TELL ME, WHAT IS IT YOU PLAN TO DO WITH YOUR ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE?** Did you spend a lot of time during quarantine soul searching and reconsidering your priorities? Maybe even leaving the rat race behind? Do your HOMESTEADING DREAMS include an HISTORIC COTTAGE, with land enough for A HORSE OR TWO, and definitely some chickens and goats? Would you really appreciate having land on both sides of a country road so no one could ever build a McMansion and ruin your view? This 1790's SCHOOLHOUSE with additions, on 23 ACRES of serenely beautiful and SCENIC LAND, consists of woodlands, meadows/pastures, wetlands and a protected stream corridor. Cahoon Creek runs across the property, and is a vital tributary to the Butternut Creek, which it meets in the village of Gilbertsville. This charming 3 BEDROOM home is as HISTORICALLY PURE as it gets, with EXPOSED BEAMS, WIDE PINE BOARDS, original windows, doors, hardware, and plaster walls. You can see the sturdy post and beam construction everywhere you look. The current owner has lived here since the 1960's and raised her family. She was always aware of the importance of stewardship for unique dwellings, and conservation of the home as well as the land. The 1st floor consists of an L-shaped living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen, a pantry with great cupboards, bathroom with clawfoot tub, and two small rooms currently used for storage. Upstairs there are two more good-sized bedrooms. There are lots of sweet original built-in cupboards. Also 4 porches, one of which is enclosed. There are 3 STOVES, all VINTAGE; one coal, one wood, and a gas cookstove fueled by propane. *See photos. The house has a solid laid up stone foundation well over 200 years old, and VERY GOOD BONES. Outbuildings include a SMALL BARN, (formerly used for horses), a machine shed, a work shed, tool shed and a spring house. There are TWO PONDS. The larger one in back of the house is a wetland ecosystem, teeming with wildlife. Perennials and flowering trees and shrubs are in abundance. No pollutants or contaminants have ever been used on this land. Morris schools. Gilbertsville's thriving artist community is nearby. 15-20 minutes to Oneonta. This property will attract buyers who appreciate the older, simpler ways of doing things, who care a lot about history and nature, and preserving our wild spaces for their family and future generations. **from Mary Oliver's poem, The Summer Day.
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