Known as Brook House, the property at 116 South Mountain Road was bought by its current owners in 1993 for $490,000.
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Over the last 33 years, the owners have worked on a major restoration to update the 1880 home while keeping its rich creative history intact.
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Listed by property brokerage Ellis Sotheby's International Realty, the estate first went on the market earlier this year for $2.295 million before the price was lowered by $300,000 in September.
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According to real estate records published on Realtor.com and Zillow, Brook House has had only four owners in the last 110 years.
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It was inside this stone house that Kurt Weill and his wife, singer and actress Lotte Lenya, lived for more than three decades.
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While living there, Weill wrote famous theater songs, including "Mack the Knife" and "Alabama Song" from The Threepenny Opera.
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Before Weill and Lenya, the home belonged to Rollo Peters, a well known American stage actor, director, and co-founder of the Theatre Guild.
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The estate sits within the historic South Mountain Road area, an artists' community in Rockland County once home to notable cultural figures such as playwright Maxwell Anderson, sculptor John Mowbray-Clark, and painter Arthur B.
Davies.
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Listing agent Richard Ellis of Ellis Sotheby's International Realty spoke about the home's appeal in property marketing materials.
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"Brook House offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to own a residence where architecture, landscape and cultural history converge in one of the Northeast's most quietly legendary artist communities," Ellis said.
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The main colonial-style home spans about 4,600 square feet and blends traditional 19th-century craftsmanship with modern structural updates.
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Inside, the home has old hand-cut wooden beams, exposed stone walls, and four wood-burning fireplaces with period mantels, including one from the 19th century and a Louis XV-style French limestone design.
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The living room has tall ceilings, wide white oak floors, tray ceilings, and French doors that open out to the grounds.
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To finish the interior restoration, the current owners worked with New York-based interior designer Gail Jacobs.
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Jacobs, known for her work on high-profile historic homes including Leonard Bernstein's former apartment at The Dakota in Manhattan, helped find period-appropriate fixtures such as antique Holophane-style lighting and Ann-Morris decorative pieces.
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In total, the estate has five bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms across the main house and other buildings on the property.
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The property is officially zoned as a legal two-family home, with a separate guest house that has its own living room fireplace, full kitchen, two bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, and a walk-out lower-level den.
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Other structures on the 5.5-acre property include an oversized garage now used as a workshop, an old brick potting shed, a large garden shed, and a chicken coop.
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A private well continually supplies water to the grounds.
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The natural landscape is designed like a private arboretum, with flowering gardens, rolling fields, and original dry-stone walls.
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The West Branch of the Hackensack River runs directly through the property, crossed by a rebuilt stone arch bridge.
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To help protect the land around it, Lotte Lenya once donated eight acres of neighboring land to the West Branch Conservation Land Trust.
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Today, Brook House borders the 91-acre Davenport Preserve, keeping the estate surrounded by protected woodland.
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Tax records listed on Realtor.com show the estimated annual property tax for the estate is $25,979.
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