The Waterfall House: History and High Design in Tivoli

Known as the Waterfall House, 28 Stonybrook Road was featured in the New York Times in February and has just come to market for the first time since its current owners bought it in 2020. The 36-acre property was redesigned by Adam Charlap Hyman, who this year received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award.

The main house is a 2,880-square-foot, 4-bedroom farmhouse with origins in the 18th century. Charlap Hyman kept the wide plank floors, beamed ceilings, and tall multi-paned windows while layering in unexpected textures and objects that give the interior an idiosyncratic quality the listing copy describes accurately as joyfully unpolished. There's a wood-burning fireplace in the kitchen, which flows into a formal dining room. A second fireplace is in the light-filled living room at the historic wing of the house, which has floor-to-ceiling windows on the garden side. Three bedrooms are on the second floor, with a fourth occupying the third floor on its own.

A separate 1,632-square-foot guest house built in 2008 functions as a fully independent residence with its own kitchen, living spaces, and two bedrooms. Attached to it is a woodworking shop with radiant heated floors, built for serious use.

The grounds are defined by Stony Creek, which runs through the property for approximately 2,200 feet, feeding an old millpond swimming hole and producing the private waterfall that gives the compound its name. Meadows, paddocks, and wooded trails make up the rest of the acreage. It's bucolic and the village of Tivoli—with its restaurants and life— is just a miles away on foot.

28 Stonybrook Road, Tivoli is listed at $3,500,000, offered by Joseph Satto at Compass Greater NY.