1294 Albany Post Road, Gardiner NY

It was here before the hotel on the ridge.

A farmhouse on Albany Post Road in Gardiner, built in the mid-1800s and set back from the road under old trees. It was already standing in 1869, when the Smiley twins bought a ten-room inn on a lake up on the Shawangunk Ridge and opened their hotel the next year.

The rooms carry their age in wide-plank floors, exposed beams and two wood-burning fireplaces. A great room added later holds the kitchen, built around an AGA range. Upstairs, the primary suite opens onto a balcony that faces the ridge.

Bedrooms

5

Baths

2.5

Interior

3,758 Sq Ft

Year Built

Mid-1800s

Fireplaces

2 · Wood-Burning

MLS

20266477

Town

Gardiner

County

Ulster

Property Gallery

The front porch of the farmhouse, its wood floor and wood ceiling running past the front door toward the lawn and old trees.

A white farmhouse with a long front porch, set back across a lawn under old trees, Gardiner, New York.

The farmhouse seen across a wide lawn, framed by mature trees.

Two rocking chairs and a small table on the front porch, under a wood ceiling.

The corner of the front porch, white posts and wood steps down to the lawn.

The farmhouse and its porch seen from across the lawn in summer.

A brick fireplace with a white mantel, in a room with wide-plank floors and an exposed post.

A fire lit in the brick fireplace, plates set along the mantel above.

A wooden staircase beside the front entry, over wide-plank floors.

A great room with a long dining table under exposed posts and beams, the kitchen island beyond.

Exposed timber posts and beams over the kitchen island and its stools.

The kitchen: mushroom wood cabinetry, a butcher-block island and pendant lights.

A farmhouse sink under a wide window, with soapstone counters and mushroom wood cabinetry.

A cream AGA range against a tiled wall, between mushroom wood cabinets.

The kitchen seen down its length, wood cabinetry on both sides and windows at the far end.

A breakfast table beside tall windows, with French doors to one side.

A sink set into wood cabinetry beneath a window, in a room off the kitchen.

A room with a writing desk and paintings beneath a window.

The primary bedroom, with a ceiling fan and windows on two sides.

A freestanding clawfoot soaking tub turned toward corner windows and the pasture beyond.

The soaking tub beneath windows on two sides, the pasture beyond.

A tiled walk-in shower with a glass door.

French doors in the primary bedroom, opening onto the balcony.

A vanity with a vessel sink on a wood cabinet, beneath a long mirror.

The porch

Set back from the road, under the old trees.

The house sits back from Albany Post Road behind a lawn and a stand of old trees, and the porch runs the length of the front. Wood boards underfoot, a wood ceiling overhead, white posts all the way along.

It’s the first thing you see from the road, and it faces the lawn.

The farmhouse

Wide boards and old beams, and two fireplaces that burn wood.

The restored farmhouse keeps its wide-plank floors and exposed beams, and windows in nearly every room look out on the land around it.

There are two fireplaces, both brick and both wood-burning.

The great room

The great room came later, and the kitchen is in it.

Past the old rooms, the house opens into a great room added later: the kitchen, the dining table and the living space in one run, under exposed posts and beams.

The kitchen

Mushroom wood, soapstone, and an AGA range.

Mushroom wood cabinetry, soapstone counters and a farmhouse sink under the window, with a butcher-block island at the center and an AGA range against a tiled wall.

Mushroom wood comes out of the growing beds of old mushroom farms, nail holes and all. It’s the detail people remember.

Upstairs

A balcony that faces the ridge.

The primary suite has vaulted ceilings, a private office and a walk-in closet. Its bath has a Bain clawfoot soaking tub, turned to the windows and the pasture past them.

French doors open onto a private balcony that faces the Shawangunk Ridge.

Property Highlights

What makes 1294 Albany Post particular.

Interior

Wide-Plank Floors · Exposed Beams
Two Wood-Burning Fireplaces
Great Room with Chef’s Kitchen
Mushroom Wood Cabinetry · Soapstone
AGA Range · Butcher-Block Island
Primary Suite with Office & Walk-In
Bain Clawfoot Soaking Tub

Outdoor

Porch the Length of the House
Private Balcony off the Primary Suite
Views to the Shawangunk Ridge
Pastoral Views from the Bath
Mature Trees
Set Back from Albany Post Road

Property Details

Built in the mid-1800s
3,758 Sq Ft
5 Bedrooms · 2.5 Baths
Gardiner · Ulster County
About 15 Minutes to New Paltz
About 15 Minutes to Mohonk & Minnewaska
About 2 Hours to New York City

Location & Access

Between the old post road and the ridge.

The house is in the Galeville corner of southern Gardiner, near the Shawangunk town line, on the valley floor below the ridge. New Paltz, the Mohonk Preserve and Minnewaska State Park Preserve are each about fifteen minutes away, with the climbing, the farm stands and the wineries in between. New York City is about two hours south.

About two miles off is the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge, the old Galeville airfield, where short-eared owls hunt the grass in daylight every winter.

The Ridge

From The Edit

Mohonk Preserve, and the case for the ridge the Smileys would not sell.

The ridge this house faces is still open land because of a decision made in 1963, when the Smileys put it in a trust instead of selling it. Seventy miles of carriage road and trail came with it.

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Listed By

Felicity Taylor

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

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