The home was designed by Cutler Anderson, who designed Bill Gates’s house in Washington State.
The Hudson Valley home of Susan Orlean, the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning movie Adaptation, starring Meryl Streep and Nicholas Cage, has come on the market.
The author, who was portrayed by Streep in the Spike Jonze-directed and Charlie Kaufman-penned film, is asking $3.495 million for the 55-acre property, in Gallatin, New York.
The home overlooks surrounding mountains.
The author and her husband bought the property in 2005 and had the home custom built. It was designed by Cutler Anderson Architects, the firm that designed Bill Gates’s house in Medina, Washington.
The fireplace has two side and can be used indoors and outdoors.
The modern home features floor-to-ceiling windows showcasing views of Stissing Mountain and the surrounding forests. There are built-in bookcases and storage, and wood and stone paneling, throughout the three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom home, which also features a double-sided, indoor-outdoor stone fireplace.
The property also has various accessory structures, including one used as a home office.
An accessory structure is used as an office.
It’s listed by Ira Goldspiel and Steve Peter of William Pitt Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty and currently has an accepted offer.
I’ve been working as a journalist in the New York metro area for more than a decade and have developed a specialization in luxury real estate, writing about everything
…I’ve been working as a journalist in the New York metro area for more than a decade and have developed a specialization in luxury real estate, writing about everything from the post-recession housing market in Fairfield County, Connecticut, to the third-home market in the Hamptons. I’m currently also a regular contributor to Newsday and Hamptons Cottages & Gardens. If you spot me in my Brooklyn neighborhood and I’m not knitting, I’m probably admiring the beautiful Victorians that surround my apartment building (and trying to figure out what they would sell for).