If you’ve ever made your way through Westchester County, New York you may have noticed that there is a home in Pelham Manor that appears to be is frozen in time.
The house looks like you’re stepping into the home a family living in the 1960s or into a scene of the show “Mad Men.”
And you kind of are. Though the house has been carefully maintained over the years, the decor and design of the home have remained untouched for the last 50 years.
And if you’re into the retro vintage thing, you could own the home for just $1,498,000 and $43,797 a year in taxes.
“The structural bones of this beloved antique Colonial in Pelham Manor, N.Y., have provided more than just a home for its adoring inhabitants,” a blog post on Sotheby’s websites reads. “Owned by the same family since its construction in 1921, 680 Ely Avenue has the foundation of a strong ancestral past, where memories, people, and love have grown. So much love, in fact, that the family has refused to let it go despite its vacancy for the past 50 years.”
The home, which has been unoccupied since 1969, was built by Selah Masten one of the founders of Mamaroneck, NY’s Winged Foot Golf Club who owned a New York City Construction Company.
“He had the most expert craftsmen from all over the world working there for weeks on the stonework and the roof,” Kenneth Graves, Masten’s grandson, told The Journal News. “All of it is hand-cut field stone.”
The home rests on a half-acre of property and has three floors and a three car garage with an apartment above that used to be the chauffeur’s living quarters.
The home was also built with large lofty rooms with an open space layout. Fireplaces were installed in the living, dining, and sun rooms.
“The delft tiles around the dining room fireplace were hand collected by the grandson in his travels to Europe as a boy,” said the home’s listing agent Holly Mellstrom. “His father suggested they be used as a surround for that fireplace. Each tile is unique, there are no two alike.”
The 5,130 sq. ft. home includes five bedrooms with a massive master suite with a dressing room, four closets, and a sitting room. The entire home boasts three large bathrooms and plenty of closet space.
What’s unique about this home is that it is still filled with all sorts of antique items.
“They hope the future buyer appreciates all the details and the personality of this house while updating some of the systems to the standards expected by today’s families,” Mellstrom said.
You can read more about this exquisite home here in The Journal News.
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