The old is new again, so much that this house is rumored that it is the oldest in Bronx, it is recently noticeable for sale.
Even if not, the old Hadley Farm House residence, a 2.5 bathroom and 2.5 bathroom residence, located near Fieldston, is undoubtedly one of the oldest surviving homes in the district. He listed this week for $ 1.49 million, according to Streeteasy.
“New York’s story really tells a house. And it’s not as if you drive along a tree line entry to get there. It is a bit right in the middle of your regular appearance Street,” Nick Dembowski, historian in Nearlandt.
The residence at the premiere covers 2,660 square feet and includes an glazed terrace, a separate garage for two cars and a large patio in 0.34 acres.
A historic stone fireplace and 2 -foot walls add to its old old -old world charm.
No one has certainly been able to leave the original stone structure of the house. The unconfirmed statements of the existence of the house in 1747 would be the Van Cortlandt mansion, which has the confirmed title of the oldest residence in the municipality. That year was only prior to the United States.
Not even Dembowski, who widely outlined the property of Kingsbridge’s historical society, can say that the home goes.
A farmer who is called Isaac Green was the first registered occupant of the house, in addition to five enslaved people. There is little information about his residence before the American Revolution. William and Elizabeth Hadley bought the house and their property in 1786.
The Hadley farm house saw a good amount of action that changed the war, when local skirmishes between the rebels and the British troops were common. The house served as an advanced British position when, in 1778, a bold French office led the rebel troops in a night raid of the property.
Colonel Armand, according to the records cited by Dembowski, sneaked into the troops in the dark, his kind of surveillance was drunk, and “the boy of the slapped a little and humiliated them.”
The rebels, according to an account, cool to Hadley Farm House’s troops “a very solid room.”
Armand proudly documented his exploits in a letter to George Washington.
The house assumed its current form in 1915, according to the Historical Designation Report, with an expansion and renewal of the renowned Dwight James Baum architect. Baum totally checked the house, but maintained some of its oldest details, including wooden beams made from half -trunks in half, intact bark.
Property records indicate that the property changed for the last time in 1999. Current owners listed the property in 2024 for $ 2.25 million higher, but did not find makers.
The current corridor of the list, James Endress by Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty, said the property is “basically in patrimonial condition.”
“It is in poor condition, anyone who leads to the house can see,” said Endress.
The exterior of the house is marked, so it will require care and special expenses in its restoration, but the separate garage is not. A new owner could knock him down and subdivide the 20 -foot lot, Endress said. Selling it to an investor could establish the inevitable renewal costs of the new owner.
The list urges buyers to “bring their architect and their imagination.”
“My sincere hope is that whoever ends up buying this house to really preserve it, because he needs a good amount of preservation work,” said Dembowski.
