Newburgh, N.Y. | $599,900

An 1856 brick house with four bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms

Frederick Clarke Withers, a British-born architect who was a partner of Calvert Vaux, designed this Victorian home for David M. Clarkson, a horticulturalist. Originally called Glenbrook, it is in the hamlet of Balmville, two miles north of the restaurants, galleries and spas of Newburgh’s renovated waterfront district and across the road from the Powelton Club, a country club established in 1882. When the house was built, residents could see the Hudson River. New York City is 70 miles south.

Size: 5,545 square feet

Price per square foot: $108

Indoors: Extensive repairs were recently made to the heating, plumbing and electrical systems; the original slate roof was fixed and the gutters replaced. The property could still use refinished floors, updated bathrooms and possibly new wall treatments, depending on the buyer’s feelings about the existing wallpaper. The kitchen is approximately 20 years old.

Double glass entry doors lead into a vestibule followed by a foyer with a marble floor. Immediately to the right is an eight-sided library with 10-foot ceilings incorporating decorative strapwork and a hardwood floor inlaid with concentric octagons. (The architect’s original house plan referred to oak and black walnut as the specified woods.) The fireplace mantel is in Mr. Withers’s signature neo-Gothic style; a copy is displayed in the Metropolitan Museum’s Gothic library period room. The original built-in bookcases are mahogany.

A 24-foot-long drawing room lies straight ahead of the entrance hall. It has parquet floors, two large, gilded mirrors, a bay window and plaster swag decoration below the crown molding. Two sets of French doors with brass cremone bolts open to a stone-paved veranda. The carved marble fireplace mantel has a central figure of a young girl with a tiny rabbit on her lap.