Exquisite turn of the century cottage in exclusive Tuxedo Park.
This very special cottage in the woods has been lovingly maintained and restored in one of America’s oldest private communities. Nestled at the end of a winding drive and over a babbling brook you will enjoy the peaceful surroundings with the distant sound of a nearby waterfall and birds for company.
This cozy home is the idyllic weekend getaway from the hustle and bustle of the city, a mere hour from Manhattan by road or train.
This beautiful cottage-style home features ornate hand painted moldings and paneling, leaded window panels on every door, beautiful ceiling details, antique fixtures and fittings including a brick fireplace and claw foot tub.
It could easily be extended into a much larger home by converting the adjacent five car garage. There is also an additional 3.7 acres of land available, which features a waterfall and woodlands listed at $500,000, with permission to build a further residence.
About Tuxedo Park
As the owners of this charming home, you will enjoy all this wonderful private and privileged community has to offer. Tuxedo Park consists of hundreds of acres of woodlands and three lakes. Its winding country lanes are bordered by stone walls and have many exclusive mansions and eclectic homes tucked away. The Tuxedo Country Club features fine dining, a swim club, an 18 hole championship golf course, ice skating, tennis, and riding.
Founded in 1885 by tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard, Tuxedo Park was the playground for socialites known at the time as the “New York Four Hundred.” It was far more exclusive than areas such as Newport or Long Island, and was the first home to the up-and-coming Roosevelt family.
The New York debutant season started with the Autumn Ball at Lorillard’s Tuxedo estate, where an outrageous new formal fashion for gentlemen was first introduced and promptly named after the community: the “Tuxedo.”
Famous inhabitants of the park included Emily Post, George F. Baker, Angier Biddle Duke, Richard Delafield and the Tuckerman family (Dorothy Draper), whose homes were built by the most prestigious architects of the times. In 1952, Tuxedo Park became an incorporated village, maintaining much of the elegance of its provenance.
The roads wind through 2,050 acres of parkland, charming because of its craggy, unspoiled beauty, and intriguing in this era of overcrowding and suburban development, because of its spectacular architecture and environmental planning. Tuxedo Park is a well-preserved village that lies peaceful and absolutely secure beyond a manned gatehouse that insures privacy, security, and tranquility.
A designated historic district, Tuxedo Park retains a number of significant residences, some of which date from 1886, and exemplifies nearly every important style of American domestic architecture.
The most popular styles of contemporary architecture were built in Tuxedo Park in the 1890’s. Structures in the Tudor Revival, Spanish Mission, Georgian, Jacobean, Gothic Revival,Queen Anne and Dutch Colonial Revival are all represented.
The architects whose work appears in Tuxedo Park read like a Who’s Who of the times, including Bruce Price, McKim, Mead & White, Walker & Gillette, Donn Barber, William A. Bates, T. Henry Randall, William A. Potter, Warren & Wetmore, Carrere & Hastings, John Russell Pope, T. Markoe Robertson, James Brown Lord, Richard Howland Hunt, Russell Sturgis and William Lescaze.
Few communities in the country retain such a remarkable number of these mansions in such pristine condition.
Convenient transportation includes the New York State Thruway (I-87), and commuter buses and trains to New York City. Complete shopping and dining facilities are located nearby as are both public and private schools. Recreational facilities abound and include swimming at the Wee Wah Beach Club for Tuxedo residents, and skiing at the nearby Sterling Forest Ski Center. Golf, tennis, fishing, hiking, boating, etc., are all nearby.
Private airports are readily accessible, as well as Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports. Stewart airport is within a half-hour and is convenient for private planes.
Tuxedo Park’s own private police force guarantees the utmost in security and privacy, and enables its residents to be free of modern day anxieties that plague the vast majority of present day communities.
