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When aggravating to anticipate the Second Empire-style appearance of Victorian architectonics one usually conjures up an exuberant, mansard-roofed cake of a abode that looks ripped anon from a 19th aeon arrangement book. The adventurous John O’Brien abode in Rhinebeck turns out to be aloof such a abode — a aeon architect’s ideal account home.

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The absorbing three-story abode is a archive of architectural elements archetypal of the time period: mansard roof, adamant cresting, bay windows, a abundant affiliated cornice and a deluge of accessory window surrounds. Amid abreast the centermost of boondocks at 46 Livingston Street, the photogenic abode is on the bazaar for $1.695 million, listed by Vicki Hickman of Hh Hill Realty.

The abode was complete in 1875 for bounded citizen John O’Brien. We haven’t been able to dig up abundant advice on O’Brien but he absolutely chose to body a affecting abode in a arresting spot.

The abode at the bend of Livingston and Mulberry in an 1890 bird’s-eye appearance by L. R Burleigh. Illustration via Library of Congress

While the admirable calibration of the abode ability advance O’Brien set his abode on all-inclusive acreage, it is amid on a bend lot appropriate abreast the centermost of Rhinebeck. An 1890s bird’s-eye appearance of the boondocks shows the beautiful abode amidst by added admirable homes.

Who congenital such a adventurous abode for O’Brien? According to the analysis actual for the Rhinebeck Apple National Register Celebrated District, the abode was advised by Gilbert Boswick (known as G.B.) Croff and congenital by Henry Latson. Latson was a bounded architect amenable for a cardinal of bartering and residential structures in the town, but Croff was an out-of-towner.

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Based in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Croff was an agog backer of the Second Empire appearance and specialized in admirable hotels and houses. In accession to designing barrio for clients, Croff awash affairs for houses and appear a cardinal of arrangement books, including Model Suburban Architectonics and Aboriginal Designs for Advanced Entrance Doors.

His Progressive American Architectonics of 1875 provided affairs for barrio of “every appearance and class” and included an acclivity and attic affairs for a “residence accomplished in Rhinebeck, N.Y.” that is assuredly the O’Brien house. The alone aspect not rendered is the two-story balustrade currently on the house. It appears in added 19th aeon illustrations of the abode and was best acceptable allotment of the aboriginal design.

The O’Brien abode appears somewhat bashful compared to some of the added Victorian confections that Croff included in the volume. The book is a actual access of mansard roofs, building and intricately abundant window surrounds. Croff included attic affairs with abstracts for abounding of the buildings, giving us a bit of a blink into the aboriginal blueprint of the aboriginal floor. For all of the absurd quirkiness and amplitude of the exterior, the autogenous blueprint is applied and able-bodied considered.

The abode in 2013. Photo via J. Ettenson Realty

The acreage was on the bazaar for $.19 in 2013, as Brownstoner acclaimed at the time. It was a bit added angry and gothic attractive with a aphotic amber acrylic job. Despite this, our description of it was “swoon, swoon, and swoon.” It awash in 2015 for $1.472 actor and it’s attractive a bit beneath Adams ancestors with new ablaze dejected siding.

A advance was completed in 2015, according to the listing; fortunately, abounding of the Victorian aeon capacity survived.

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There’s no attic plan with the advertisement so it’s boxy to acquaint how abundant the aboriginal attic adheres to the aboriginal layout. But the arced access still occupies the advanced anteroom and the heavily carved woodwork of the advanced aperture appears intact.

The bay window and marble broiler of the aboriginal sitting allowance are there to actualize a comfortable acquisition spot. There are four marble mantels in the house, although alone two accept retained their fireboxes. (It’s cryptic if they are in alive order.)

Some adorning plasterwork and beam medallions survive on the aboriginal attic and what may be reproduction adorning painting on the dining allowance ceiling.

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At some point the rear apartment of the abode were acceptable opened up to actualize a added avant-garde kitchen and bistro space. The kitchen has dejected marble counters from a bounded quarry, according to the listing. The absorbed bistro breadth has congenital affectation cabinets and advanced axle floorboards.

The abode has six bedrooms advance out on the high two floors, including a adept bedchamber with a bathrobe room, en apartment ablution and laundry. According to Rhinebeck historian Nancy Kelly, Mr. O’Brien was reportedly the aboriginal in the apple to install contemporary gas accessories in his house, so he ability acknowledge consecutive owners all-embracing avant-garde domiciliary technology like the gas broiler admit in the bedroom.

The abode has 4.5 baths and the ones photographed accept been adapted in a clean, but somewhat over-the-top appearance — which conceivably fits in altogether with the animated attributes of the abode itself. The adept ablution has a marble beef shower, freestanding tub and acrimonious floors.

The abode is amid abreast the celebrated centermost of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County. Rhinebeck is accepted for its bizarre downtown, shops and aces 19th aeon architecture. Nearby are abundant celebrated sites, including Wilderstein, a Victorian acreage endemic by an FDR cousin. Rhinebeck is about a 2.5 hour drive from Brooklyn, but it’s aloof a few afar from the Amtrak base at Rhinecliff.

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