One-Room Schoolhouse Shines in New Function as an Cute Tiny Dwelling

It’s laborious to think about a cuter tiny dwelling than this Elizaville Public Schoolhouse, which has already discovered a purchaser simply 10 days after it got here in the marketplace for $295,000. The darling domicile is at the moment pending a sale.

The just lately renovated schoolhouse was inbuilt 1860 to serve the farming neighborhood of Elizaville, NY—a hamlet within the cities of Clermont and Gallatin, which nonetheless had fewer than 2,000 residents as of 2022.

However the charming one-bedroom, one-bath, 706-square-foot home isn’t fairly as distant as you’d suppose.

The quarter-acre lot is tucked among the many Catskill Mountains and is only a 15-minute drive to the cities of Hudson or Rhinebeck, and two hours to downtown Manhattan.

Indicators of scholars

Regardless of the recent coat of paint and a small however modernized kitchen and bathtub, the house retains lots of its unique options, together with the loft bed room, the place the college’s headmistress as soon as slept.

“There are nonetheless marks within the flooring the place the desks have been lined up and college students’ names etched into the wavy glass home windows,” says itemizing agent Annabel Taylor. “The flooring, home windows, cupola, and metallic roof are all unique.”

The house has central air that may be managed remotely, in addition to a tankless water heater.

“One benefit to residing within the stunning rural city of Elizaville is that each one residents are granted entry to Twin Lakes, which is a good swimming spot simply three minutes from the schoolhouse,” Taylor says.

The home doesn’t fall underneath any historic covenants, so it may be up to date or expanded.

Nevertheless it’s laborious to consider altering a factor on this little white schoolhouse with a brilliant pink door.

“It’s fairly good as is, and stuffed with appeal,” Taylor says.