98 Fremont St, Callicoon, NY 12723

Capture the relaxed sophistication of the Hamptons in your own Catskills getaway. This gracious century-old Dutch Colonial Revival home has recently undergone a quality renovation that combines American farmhouse charm with 21st century comfort. The result is a country house that could easily grace the pages of today's shelter magazines. The exterior of the home features its original wrap-around porch leading to an expansive sunny deck with a sunken top-of-the-line Hot Springs spa and outdoor hot-and-cold shower. Two wide plantation-style staircases lead down to the front lawn and to the garden. The front porch is illuminated by two custom lanterns ordered from a Southern craft guild. Your guests will announce their arrival with the pull of an imported Victorian butler's bell reminiscent of Downton Abbey. The addition of a large two-story screened porch with barn-like timber frame construction and quality anodized aluminum screening offers a summer dining room on the main floor and a master sleeping porch above. The summer dining room features a gyro double ceiling fan for warm days, and on cool nights, simply draw the canvas draperies to transform the screen porch into a romantic tent lit by starry ceiling fixtures. The main floor of the home is flooded with natural light through numerous windows and French doors. The great room offers a view of the Delaware River though a wall of floor-to-ceiling custom Marvin windows originally destined for a church in Tennessee. The oak hardwood floors have been painstakingly hand-stenciled in a Colonial style checkerboard pattern. Cozy up with a book near the fireplace, or prepare a country meal in the open plan kitchen, which offers plenty of counter space, cabinet storage and stainless steel appliances. The elegant dining room features a sunny bay window, a rustic iron and glass chandelier, and oak hardwood floors hand-stenciled in a Colonial mariner's compass pattern. The main floor also includes a large bathroom with imported English over-sized schoolhouse tiles. Up the central staircase with cherry wood treads are two guest rooms, a bathroom, a linen closet, and a master suite comprising a private study/dressing room, bedroom and a dreamy sleeping porch with a marvelous view of the Delaware River. Two of the bedrooms include in-room porcelain pedestal sinks reminiscent of the Catskills rooming houses of yesteryear. The second floor exudes farmhouse charm with white painted, hand-hewn timber floors and Dutch Colonial gambrel ceilings. The bathrooms in the home offer top quality, solid brass fixtures by Sign of the Crab, Soho and Motiv in chrome-plated and polished nickel-plated finishes. Take a long soak in the romantic claw-foot bath tub upstairs or a relaxing shower under the large rain head in the oversize shower stall downstairs. Other features include a sound system with Bose speakers in the great room, dining room, screened dining room, and deck. In the basement are a front-load washer and dryer, a large utility sink, an extra refrigerator, and a new furnace and new oil tank. Park both of your cars in the double garage renovated to resemble a Victorian trellised garden house. The property is situated on a scenic bluff above the charming shops, restaurants and cinema of the village of Callicoon, yet it provides complete privacy and seclusion. Stroll down to the lower lawn of the property on the wide garden stairs to admire the picturesque pond with blooming water lilies in various colors, and the four weeping cherry trees. Enter your private perennial garden with its estate quality deer fence. Or simply relax on the charming wooden swing for two and admire your new Catskills retreat.