PHEASANT RIDGE
Designed in 1891 by Bruce Price, this historic mansion called “The Japanese Cottage”, once owned by the son of Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of England and cousin of Rudyard Kipling, and by Mrs. Julia D. Steinway, set the architectural standard for Tuxedo Park.
The entrance foyer is graced with a sweeping staircase to the second floor. From the foyer you enter the formal living room with fireplace, formal dining room with fireplace, formal family room/den with fireplace and splendid sunroom all opening onto the terrace overlooking all of Tuxedo Park and it’s extraordinary lake. The new eat-in kitchen with fireplace and built-n barbecue also overlooks the lake and garden. There are two powder rooms and a mud room on this level as well as a secondary staircase upstairs/downstairs.
The second floor has 4 bedrooms ensuite with new full bathrooms and panoramic lake views. The third floor has 5 bedrooms, a full bathroom, a large walk-in cedar closet, and a walk-in linen closet.
The basement is walk-out with a billiards room, two car garage and storage.
There is an additional two car detached garage.
Sited on 2.1 acres, the home is in impeccable condition and is enhanced by the following amenities: living room has separate wet bar with ice machine, the new kitchen has stereo speaker system, the sunroom has surround-sound, and there are new sprinklers in the lower enclosed garden, new windows/screens, new central air conditioning, new oil tanks, new hot water heater and a pool with lake views buried the in yard that could possibly be re-instated.