8 Nelson ST Goshen, NY 10924
3 Beds
3 Baths
2,151 SqFt
Open House
Sat Aug 08, 11:00am - 1:00pm
UPDATED:
Key Details
Property Type Single Family Home
Sub Type Single Family Residence
Listing Status Active
Purchase Type For Sale
Square Footage 2,151 sqft
Price per Sqft $278
MLS Listing ID 1032819
Style Colonial
Bedrooms 3
Full Baths 2
Half Baths 1
HOA Y/N No
Rental Info No
Year Built 1921
Annual Tax Amount $9,682
Lot Size 7,348 Sqft
Acres 0.1687
Property Sub-Type Single Family Residence
Source onekey2
Property Description
You will feel it in the first ten steps. The foyer opens up instead of closing in, the light comes at you from more than one direction, and the running tally in your head just goes quiet. There is nothing to fix. Nobody cut a corner and hoped you would not look. The living room stretches nearly 19 feet, long enough for the sectional and the tree in December and still room to walk around both. The kitchen sits open to the dining area, so the person cooking is never exiled from the conversation, and the back room off the hall gives you a second place to land when you want the door closed and the game on. A half bath on the main floor means guests are never wandering upstairs looking for one.
Then you go up, and the primary suite is the moment you stop pretending to be casual about this house. It runs better than 20 by 28 feet, windows on three sides, big enough to hold a proper bed, a pair of chairs by the glass, and the kind of morning that does not require you to be anywhere yet. The walk in closet runs nearly 14 feet, so your things live on hangers instead of in a pile on the chair. The bath is yours alone. This is not a bedroom you sleep in and leave. It is the room you retreat to, the one that finally makes the house feel like a reward rather than a compromise. Two more bedrooms and a second full bath sit down the hall, and the laundry is right there on the bedroom level, which sounds like a small thing until you remember every basket you have ever carried up two flights.
The village gives you the rest. You can leave the car in the driveway all weekend and still have somewhere to be, walking out for a bagel and a coffee at Orange County Bagels, dinner at Limoncello or the long German kind at Franzel, a drink at the Stagecoach Inn, an unhurried hour at the library, Saturday morning at the Church Park farmers market. When the parade comes through town, you are not circling for parking, you are standing on your own block with a coffee in your hand watching it pass. The bus stop is a short walk for the days you go into the city, Salisbury Mills and Harriman put you on the Port Jervis line in 10 to 20 minutes, and Manhattan sits about 60 miles east for whenever you want it and not one minute before. Summer evenings, a meet runs at the Historic Track, and the sound of it carries across the village the way it has for more than a century.
Out back, a wood fence wraps a level yard that belongs entirely to you, with a deck for the grill, a fire pit that earns its keep the first cold night in September, and a shed already standing so the mower is not living in the garage. The two car garage gets to stay a garage. Central air handles August, natural gas heat handles February, and municipal water and sewer mean no wells, no tanks, no surprises waiting for you in year three.
The house is immaculate, and that word is doing honest work. There is no punch list taped to the refrigerator, no Saturday lost under a sink, no long conversation about whether the price plus the repairs still makes sense. You move in, you hang your things on the wall, and you get your weekends back. After everything you have looked at, that might be the thing that finally lets you exhale.
Location
State NY
County Orange County
Rooms
Basement Unfinished
Interior
Interior Features Cathedral Ceiling(s), Ceiling Fan(s), Crown Molding, Eat-in Kitchen, Recessed Lighting, Walk-In Closet(s)
Heating Baseboard, Natural Gas
Cooling Central Air
Flooring Carpet, Hardwood, Tile
Fireplace No
Appliance Convection Oven, Cooktop, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Stainless Steel Appliance(s)
Laundry Laundry Room
Exterior
Exterior Feature Fire Pit
Parking Features Driveway
Garage Spaces 2.0
Fence Back Yard, Wood
Utilities Available Cable Connected, Electricity Connected
Garage true
Private Pool No
Building
Sewer Public Sewer
Water Public
Structure Type Vinyl Siding
Schools
Elementary Schools Goshen Intermediate
Middle Schools C J Hooker Middle School
High Schools Goshen
School District Goshen
Others
Senior Community No
Special Listing Condition None
