556 Empire Rd, Copake, NY 12516

Empire Farm.This historic farmstead graces both sides of a country lane, abuts large Hudson Valley cropland and is bi-sected by the Bash Bish River. From numerous places within the farm local bucolic, Taconic Range and Catskill views are obtained. On any of these sites, a major new Manor House might stand. Two substantial, elegant and matching four bedroom period houses and a 1900 cottage (all approached through an allee of ancient maples that shade fenced paddocks) evince an antebellum timelessness only augmented by four supporting antique barns. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed. Farm roads traverse crop fields, the remains of a half mile race track and natural settings that culminate in riverbank woods along the Bash Bish. More land (including Foothills Farm) available.