You notice this house from the end of the block: navy clapboard, a gable of patterned shingles and a front porch deep enough for a couple of chairs and a slow morning. It was built in 1906, and much of what made it special then is still here.
The front door opens to a small foyer and a staircase with its original turned balusters and a wood newel post. To one side is the living room, where a bay window lets in light from three directions and a fireplace with a painted mantel gives the room a center. A wide opening leads to the dining room, which has picture-frame molding and a chair rail. That kind of detail is usually the first thing to go in a renovation, and here it was kept. Just past it, a small sitting room works as a reading room, a music corner or a place for the piano.
The kitchen runs back toward the garden. It has warm wood cabinetry with glass-front uppers, a gas range and a long run of storage. Then the room opens into a breakfast nook with windows on three sides, an easy, bright place to start the day. A powder room is tucked off the back hall.
Upstairs, the bay window repeats in the primary bedroom. Four bedrooms in all open off a wide hall, and one, at the back, looks into the treetops. There is a walk-in closet with its own window, and the bath is finished in marble-look tile with a floating wood vanity and a tub with shower. Below, there is a full basement with a separate storage room.
Out back, a mature shade tree anchors a fenced lawn edged with plantings. It is a private, green spot on a lot of a little under a sixteenth of an acre.
The real appeal is where it sits. N. Dutcher is a dead-end block that runs right up to Matthiessen Park, so there’s no through traffic. Old trees arch over the road, and it is the kind of street where neighbors know one another. Matthiessen Park is the village’s riverfront park, with a playground, spray pool, picnic tables and wide views of the river and the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. The Irvington Metro-North station on the Hudson Line and Scenic Hudson Park are a few minutes away on foot. Turn the other way and Main Street climbs past shops, restaurants and the Town Hall Theater, crossing the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail on the way up. The house is in the Irvington Union Free School District.
Four bedrooms, offered at $1,175,000.
For details or a private showing, text 914-826-0027.