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Sunny Bluff House at Cantine’s Island Cohousing
14 Ann St.
Saugerties, NY 12477
$440,000
2 bedrooms | 1 bathrooms | 897 sq ft | Built 1840
Perched on the sunny bluestone bluff looking over the Esopus Creek waterfall, this home lives large within Cantine’s Island Cohousing, benefitting from a common house, a woodshop, a boat house, a beach, and a 9.5-acre wooded sanctuary.
COMMUNITY AND NATURE
The Sunny Bluff House has it all. Take a moment at the bluff, enjoy the waterfall and Catskills on the horizon, and come home to your senses.
Notable features include:
Right-sized living in the spirit of Sarah Susanka. Check out Sarah’s interview on the Regenerative Real Estate Podcast for inspiration
Multiple bonus spaces await your creative uses–yoga, art, guest rooms, music, crafts, or wild fermentation experiments with the season’s bumper crops
Terraced personal garden space
Built in 1840 as the original Mill Keeper's House
Community — the antidote to isolation
The Sunny Bluff House is located in Cantine’s Island Cohousing Community. Nineteen privately-owned homes sit on over 9.5 acres of community-owned land beside the Esopus Creek within an easy walk to the Village of Saugerties.
“Cohousing is an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space.”
The term originated in Denmark in late 1960s and has paved ways for more meaningful living since. The benefits of living in community are great with strong evidence that it helps decrease isolation while positively impacting inhabitants’ physical and mental health and overall quality of life.
Some other benefits include:
Security and safety
Chances to be sociable
Privacy when you need it
A nourishing place for kids to grow up
Opportunities to share knowledge and skills
Collaboration with your neighbors on shared interests
Shared meals (the food always tastes better!)
A sense of togetherness and belonging
Read more about “Why Cohousing” on Cantine’s Island’s website.
Life List at Cantine’s Island Cohousing Community
PLANTS, TREES & Annual VEGGIES:
River Birch grove, which is an endangered species of the birch family
Annual vegetable production of salad greens, green beans, zucchini, garlic, chard, tomatoes, and okra (to name a few)!
Enjoy and variety of edible berry patches on the grounds
BIRDS:
Osprey
Bald eagle
Great blue heron
Ducks
Cormorants
Pileated woodpeckers
and more!
FISH & Other Wildlife:
Anadromous fish migrate from the ocean to spawn in the springtime including herring, striped bass and American eels
A harbor seal makes his home in the inlet next to the boat house
Work—and lots of play!
The community maintains a boathouse with kayaks and canoes, many of which are shared among community members. It’s an easy and gorgeous paddle to the Saugerties Lighthouse, with soul-warming views of the Catskills and the Village of Saugerties on the return. Families spend summer days swimming and playing at the small beach and the entire community holds summer barbeques and other activities beside the creek.
“The current is very gentle where we are, and when it’s hot out — even in fall — the water feels great!”
- Resident
The vision of the Cantine’s Island Cohousing Community is to live gently beside Esopus Creek, deepen our community through cooperative work, play, and breaking bread together.
The five roots of regeneration
Health & Wellness
Enjoy the deep support and sense of wellness that is possible when you’re surrounded by a community of care.
Breathe deep as you stroll the 9.5-acre woods and waterfront.
Enjoy a restorative pause at one of the multiple waterfront seats–the swing on the bluff or the benches in the meditation cove.
Sustainability
Use less, share more.
This home provides an opportunity to right-size your living space and develop an inter-connected lifestyle that embraces the values of generosity and abundance in community.
Community
Enjoy weekly opportunities to connect over a meal, a happy hour meetup, or a garden work party with neighbors
In community sharing of resources is commonplace–baking supplies and kitchen equipment, kayaks and canoes, and tools and skills shared regularly
Enjoy a common house with a large kitchen and gathering space, a large workshop, a boat house, and common picnic areas to expand the common amenities that would be difficult to provide and maintain on your own.
Ecology
This home is embedded in such rich ecology, nestled atop a beautiful bluestone bluff over the Esopus Creek.
The inlet near the swimming hole is home to Sophie the seal, a wildlife rescue who migrated up from Mystic Seaport Rescue and has made it her home ever since. She’s a frequent visitor and co-inhabitant in this stretch of the Esopus.
The mature, wooded sanctuary that abuts the Esopus allows immediate immersion and space to commune and play within a vital ecosystem.
Spirit
Come home to children playing, the fresh air of the forest, the sound of the river in the background, set your things down, and there is warm, attentive community at your doorstep. Imagine the peace of mind.
Land Acknowledgement
This home occupies ancestral lands stewarded by the Haudenosaunee (ho-dee-no-SHOW-nee) past and present, the Shinnecock Nation, the Unkechaug Nation, the Stockbridge-Munsee, the Lenni Lenape, and others no longer living in the region. Indigenous peoples do not believe that the land and waters belong to them, but that they belong to the land and waters. With this Land Acknowledgement, we honor, with gratitude, these communities and, through their example, we commit ourselves to honoring the earth and all of her gifts.
Proximity
A short picturesque walk over the Esopus above the waterfall and stroll up into the historic town of Saugerties
20 minutes to Woodstock, Kingston, or Catskill
35 minutes to skiing, hiking, climbing in the Catskill Mountains
2-hours to New York City
Let’s set up a tour
For inquiries please connect with:
David Todd
(503) 267–4197
david@chooselatitude.com
This property is advertised through the Ulster County Board of Realtors MLS# 20223644
