Inventory #

239

Recent restoration of the historic Kinderhook station provides carefree condominium living right in the Village of Kinderhook; less than five minute walk to the village square. The “Great Room” with 12ft ceiling provides living/dining, open kitchen, and a charming alcove with small gas fireplace. Two light-filled bedrooms, two full baths and adequate closet and storage space throughout.      
This is a really special home created from the 1880 train station in the historic village of Kinderhook. It is on a side street of period houses, adjacent to the park. It has just the right amenities for today's living. Transforming the station to residential use, the developer took great pains to restore, and in some cases to reconstruct the historic exterior. The bedrooms and bathrooms were added to the rear in such a way as to be almost invisible from the street, thus serving to preserve the integrity of the original station structure facing Albany Avenue.
  The scale of the building, the traditional brackets that support the overhang of the hip roof, and the deck that surrounds three sides, clearly indicate the building's former use, yet at the same time assures that it is very much at home with the variety of residential styles along Albany Avenue.
  $150/mo condominium fee pays for exterior maintenance including repair or upgrading of exterior of the house (deck, siding, roof) as needed, spring and fall general clean up, snow plowing and shoveling, lawn mowing and tree maintenance. Such carefree existence is a rarity in the county. There is a parking space assigned to this property.
There is a small building at the rear of the condominium property with an 10' x 12' storage room storage provided for each unit.
All utilities and electrical systems were new when installed in 2000, and the new poured concrete foundation provides a full size and dry 4'-6" high crawl space with space for the furnace, ductwork and hot water heater. The house includes central air conditioning, with the condensing unit at the rear of the property.
The Village of Kinderhook is widely admired both for the grand residences that are widely spaced along Broad Street, and for the period homes along Albany Avenue, once the post road to the state capitol.  Albany Avenue has the scale and the quiet ambiance of a prosperous early 20th century village with well cared for residences built over more than a century  ago in a number of styles.
  Kinderhook Station is located two tenths of a mile from the village square within easy, and even pleasurable walking distance to the post office, the library, the bank, village hall and all the other amenities at the center
of the village.

 

County:

  Columbia

Address:

36A Albany Avenue

Town:

Kinderhook Village

School:

Ichabod Crane CS

Price:

$295,000

Sq Ft:

1200

Lot Size:

.14 acres

Year Built:

1880/ 2000

Type:

Victorian Station

Pool:

no

Fireplace:

gas iron stove

Porch / Deck:

on 3 sides, covered

Views:

village, park

Zoning:

residential

Rooms all:

5

Bedrooms:

2

Bathrooms:

2, full

Other Buildings:

storage bldg