About this home

Turn off the main road and the noise drops away. By the time the fields open up on both sides you have rolled the windows down without deciding to, and the last few minutes of the drive stop counting as a commute. Right now this is 3.35 acres and nothing else, which is the best part of it. Ground has not been broken. Nothing has been framed, poured, painted or decided. The approvals are already in hand, so there is no planning board to sit through and no year of paperwork standing between you and a shovel. Everything still open is the part you actually want to decide. Start with what the land gives you. Room for a fire pit far enough out that the smoke never matters and nobody within earshot minds how late it runs. Room for the garden to get as ambitious as you want. Room for the dog to open up at a full sprint instead of a lap. A tent in July, and a snowfall in January that stays clean all the way to the tree line because nothing is close enough to track it up. Evenings out here run long, and that is the part people underestimate until they have it. The plan runs 2,871 square feet, and the layout is what will get you. A formal dining room for the nights that deserve a real table, and an eat-in kitchen with an island that opens to everything else, because that is where everyone ends up anyway no matter how nicely you set the other room. Ceilings on the first floor run 9 feet so the light carries. Real wood trim around the windows and doors. A fireplace to hold the main living space through those four months when a Hudson Valley evening asks for one. Upstairs, 4 bedrooms, walk-in closets, and a primary suite with a big walk-in shower behind glass doors. Two and a half baths, and a real laundry room instead of a closet with a hookup in it. The cabinets, the counters, the hardware, the paint, the floors in every room are all yours to choose, which means you will never lose a Saturday undoing a decision you had no part in. The basement opens straight out to the yard at ground level, wide glass door and a real window, so it will never read as a basement. A whole extra floor waiting on whatever you decide it should become. A deck off the back steps down into the grass, and the covered front porch will get more use than you are picturing, because sitting outside watching nothing happen turns out to be the entire point of a place like this. The garage takes 2 cars and everything else you keep meaning to sort out. None of the quiet costs you anything either. Dinner at Ward's Bridge Inn when the week has earned one, mornings at Java Blue on Clinton Street, walking loops at Benedict Farm Park, the Walden Wallkill Rail Trail a few minutes up the road. I-84 puts Newburgh and New Paltz within easy reach, the train at Salisbury Mills is about 20 minutes out, and Manhattan sits 70 miles off on the days you need it to. Everything will be new, so nothing needs replacing and nothing sits waiting to surprise you three years in. But that is not what you will remember about this place. You will remember walking this land before a single thing stood on it, and already knowing exactly how the first night on that porch was going to feel.

Facts and features

Schools

• Valley Central High School

  high · 9-12 · 3.2 mi

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• Valley Central Middle School

  middle · 6-8 · 3.2 mi

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• Montgomery Elementary School

  elementary · K-5 · 2.7 mi

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• Chapel Field Christian High School

  high · 9-12 · 3.4 mi

• Chapel Field Christian School

  elementary · K-12 · 3.4 mi

• Walden Elementary School

  elementary · K-5 · 3.9 mi

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Price history

• Aug 19, 2026 · Listed$899,900

Tax history

• 2026$848 tax · $46,700 assessed

Home value

$880,050

• Quantarium$880,050
• Collateral Analytics$891,000
• Cotality$675,600

Where it is