Whether your dream home is a quaint carriage house, a charm-filled cottage or a grand estate, there are plenty of drool-worthy houses in the region beyond Brooklyn to fantasize about.
For 100 years the Hurst Pierrepont estate was the country retreat of a family whose patriarch was a well-known jurist of the 19th century.
Here's a Bronxville manse that comes complete with a historic nickname and a past that begins well before the town's late 19th century boom.
It's a modest little shingled 19th century cottage in New Rochelle, but a little digging into the past seems to point to a connection with a major horticultural figure of the Gilded Age.
Don't let the winter weather keep you inside when there are still places to explore.
In a town packed with the full gamut of 19th century architectural styles, here's a grand manse on a Hudson, N.Y. block that is flush with houses from the 1840s to the 1900s.
If you've always wanted to lay claim to owning the oldest house in town, here's a little house that historians believe might be just that.
When constructed, this substantial stone mansion was considered a cottage, a country retreat from the city for the wealthy of the Gilded Age.
If you still need some holiday inspiration it isn't too late to fit in a visit to one of New York's festively adorned historic house museums.
Newburgh, an architectural wonder of a town along the Hudson River, celebrates the season in style with their annual house tour.
