So this is what(and where) I’ll hopefully be working on for the next couple of months.
The main house
View from the side
A view of the lake from the Living room
The pavilion
The Stage
The dance floor
A layout of the main house
The place was built around 100 years ago by old school New York money and was bought by my grandparents and a bunch of other Communists back in ’48. The idea is to make it a Hotel/B&B with a restaurant, hosting cultural events(music, dances) at the pavilion. It’s 50 miles from the GWB, the train to Penn Station is 70 minutes away(after they fix it, the hurricane last fall washed out a bit of the line.) It’s on 80 acres with exclusive lake access, mostly surrounded by state forest. At some point we hope to plant some fruit trees on acreage that is lying fallow along with growing as much produce as we can on site. The restaurant would have some slavic food, but would also feature the best food to come from Orange County and the Hudson Valley.
The kitchen needs a bit of work and some bedrooms need to be converted back to their original dimensions, but it’s actually not that bad if we can just get past political headaches and egos. The Pavilion needs some ADA upgrades and the kitchen needs work(as does the bathhouse and snack shack) but with new LED lighting tech we can install a PA & lighting rig relatively cheaply.
