306 Round Hill Rd
306 Round Hill Road, $1.825 million, on a 2011 price of $2.999. I’m baffled by this sale. It’s an 1804 home with much of the original building still intact but its surrounding land was sold off long ago and the Merritt Parkway built next to it. I love truly old houses, and Pal Nancy and I even restored an 1835 farmhouse in Maine when we were young and stupid, with plenty of time and no children on our hands. But I wouldn’t put that same labor into a house on just 2 acres that was buried under the noise of a highway.
Someone else is of a different opinion, obviously.
Lower in the food chain, 71 Riverside Lane, NoPo, sold for $600,000 “as is”. Figure land value plus, maybe, $50,000 for the house itself.
In case some of you don’t understand the ancient language Brokerbabble used in the listing, let me help.
In its original tongue:
CHARMING QUAINT MINI ESTATE ON ROUND HILL ROAD W/INTERESTING ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS & HISTORIC AMBIANCE
In plain English: Good luck with that HUGE renovation.
I listed this house (twice) many years ago. It was a cobbler’s house/shop in 1810. In the 1920′s or so (pre Merritt) it was the country house of John Twachtman’s daughter, Violet (sister of the builders Alden and Quentin). I have contemporary magazine articles about it then. It was a fabulous jewell from another time. Later, it was a country home (May and September) of the heiress to a large paper fortune furnished with priceless antiques and landscaped by Webl. I hope the new owners get it. There is huge history there.