This beautiful Georgian-Federal style home in Sharon Springs, New York is the home of Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge. According to The New York Times, the couple bought the 200-year-old home (with red barn) in 2007 and named it "Beekman 1802 in honor of its original owner, William Beekman, a judge and state senator". In addition to sparsely furnishing the home to show off the architectural character, they have an organic goat farm that produces cheese and soap..
The home has four bedrooms, seven fireplaces and 14-foot wide hallways! Dr. Brent Ridge was, until last September, "vice president for healthy living at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia."
We appreciate that even though this is a HUGE home, the sparsely furnished rooms really show off the space and are clutter-free:
"The new owners took things slowly: Instead of “filling the rooms full of things from Pottery Barn,” Dr. Ridge said, the couple decided to “be minimal with the furniture; we wanted the house to shine through.”"
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Comments (14)
Beautiful. I love that minimal did not have to mean modern. Just classic and clean.
Ditto that.
what a beautiful place. It reminds me not to go nuts about keeping my floors pristine. Old, aged wood floors with scratches and dings look amazing. I almost want to let the kids brings their trucks inside. Almost.
I loved this article and their home - they have a great website too: http://www.beekman1802.com/1802_homepage.html
Nice. The only drawback to living in these old places are all the ghosts.
I share a house with Mary, to live in a place so beautiful. She sounds like an American Girl story, a publicity draw perhaps. Breathtaking house and the goat farm makes it beyond fabulous.
Beautiful home, I love the colors and the furniture, "I want to go to there"
nice pheasant in the 1st pic.
lovely eclectic home... aside from that table full of stuff in the bedroom
Nice - but / and of course they could AFFORD to not have to" just go go to Pottery Barn " - ahem.
it does look like a wedding cake!
who you gonna call?
ghostbusters!
Their second home? Jeesh.
It's a dreamy house, but I think the furnishings are too spare. It doesn't look comfortable or personal. A house like that would showcase furniture so well.
I'm tickled that the guy was an ex-drag queen.
"The size of the goat herd varies according to the season" means that the kids are sold, probably, as meat animals. Dairy goats have to be kept in lactation. That means constantly producing kids, and having them taken away to be fed milk substitute and fattened (most of them) for slaughter. (Just so you know what goes into cheese production... it's true for cows, too.)
thanks, forestdweller...another reason to go VEGAN.