Picturesque Villa With Cupola Near Newburgh, Yours for $748K

"The house boasts wide planked floor boards, a plethora of marble mantels, and an original stair. While there have been some changes to this Newburgh-area dwelling over the centuries, it still retains its picturesque charm inside and out. Likely dating to the 1860s, the house boasts wide planked floor boards, a plethora of marble mantels, and an original stair. The property on the market at 5091 Route 9W is in Balmville, a hamlet adjoining the northern edge of Newburgh, New York."

"Newburgh was a hub of design in the mid 19th century. Newburgh-born landscape designer and architect Andrew Jackson Downing was part of a group of architects there who would shape the American home in the 19th century, including Alexander Jackson Davis, Calvert Vaux, and Frederick Clarke Withers. The designers contributed house designs to each other's publications, and their work can be seen in completed villas and cottages in the region. Withers designed a brick manse in Balmville around 1857."

The house at 5091 Route 9W in Balmville, adjacent to Newburgh, is dated to 1862 and fits the hamlet's mid-19th-century villa era. Interior features include wide planked floor boards, numerous marble mantels, and an original stair, and the property retains picturesque charm despite later alterations. Newburgh served as a mid-19th-century design hub where Andrew Jackson Downing, Alexander Jackson Davis, Calvert Vaux, and Frederick Clarke Withers influenced American domestic architecture. The property is recorded as the Thayer House on a National Register evaluation, but the name likely reflects a local Thayer family rather than Sylvanus Thayer, who resided in Braintree and died in 1872.

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