Tasteful friends- Historic New York Lighthouse for Sale

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The dining room is incredible. Is the sideboard attached?

The dining room is nice, the best room in the house. And the exterior has much appeal, not yo mention the setting.

It's an off interior, though, with s lot of builders' grade finishes and materials. It would be relatively simple to undo some of the cheap finishes and some if the overwrought woodiness that looks like a 1970s renovation. I would keep elements of quirkiness but give the interior a more unified, less hand-me-down cottage by the lake feel.

It’s so nice … in the summer. I love winter, but being right in the middle of the snowbelt with winds off the lake and gray skies might be hard to endure.

Suffocating "Bed & Breakfast Inn" Victoriana, inside and out. Pass.

Beauty!

I do not understand the open tub and toilet. Who would want to take a crap without closing a door?

I'm from Rochester and have friends who live on the lake in Irondiquoit which is one twon over from Hilton and the winters right here are absolutely brutal - being right on the lake right that, you'll seen people's houses literally turning into ice sculptures. from the cold and the wind and the water blasting across the lake. It's a great house that could be turned into something really special with some work to resituate the inside but that location is hell for at least four full months of the year. (Of course who knows, perhaps climate change will change that soon enough.)

Rugged cottage or lace doily town, pick a lane.

That circular sofa room looks like where ladies of the evening would sit to be examined.

Great in the summertime, not so GOOD in the winter.

Has anyone found or come up with an explanation for the open plan toilet and tub? Why?! It's clearly not a mid-winter, heat-preserving measure.

I has to be hunted.

We once stayed in a nice AirBnB in Costa Rica where the bathrooms were similarly in the bedrooms, separated by a half-wall. I made my husband go downstairs when I had to take a dump.

^ most of the furniture is indeed awful with the exception of this bedroom and the dining room

Try again

That sideboard in the dining room is FUCKING HIDEOUS! It's one of the most heavy and overbearing pieces of furniture I have ever seen. Or are you being sarcastic OP/R2?

Apart from that I love the house and it has great spaces and great bones. The floors and ceilings are incredible. I am not familiar with the area (the winter sounds brutal) but I really love the house and the setting at the time the pics were taken. I could definitely live there.

That is lovely, at least the main house. The guest accomodation is nowhere near as nice, although its livable, but that open bathroom situation is weird, looks like a bad 70's reno as R3 says. That dining room and the awesome sideboard are very cool though, and I like the furniture in the main house overall, that part is much better done

Well I love it @R16 It is an imposing piece of furniture.

Would suit me but I have no friends or family remotely near Rochester.

[quote]The dining room is incredible. Is the sideboard attached?

The sideboard (with lighthouses!) is not attached, R2; though the frieze at the top looks as though it might be engaged to the wall the small bun feet across the front indicate otherwise.

Via the 3-D view you can see that the dining table and chairs in the same room appear to be en suite, same wood, same period, same style, repeating the unusual freestanding aspect of much of the carving as well as some other specific motifs. In the entry hall with the L-shaped stair there is another piece from the same suite, a glazed cabinet. Odd to imagine that there was either sufficient market for making lighthouse themed furniture or for selling sufficient highly encrusted lighthouse themed furniture to an extremely specific market, but such was the 19th Century.

Why assume it was industrial furniture. Perhaps custom made.

The furniture was certainly made in a factory, R21, perfectly contemporary with the lighthouse/light keeper's house of 1895, perhaps customized to order with specific elements added on, or a specialty catalogue design to appeal to the burgeoning business of lighthouses at the time (there were 12509 major lighthouses in the US in the 1890s).

One article mentions that original architectural drawings and many furnishings have been passed along to later owners.

Thanks, Mr. Know It All.