is an architectural tour de force. It is one of the most painstaking and remarkable restorations in the history of Dutchess County.

As were the families of Revolutionary War Captains Oliver Hanchett and Lemuel Bates commingled first in honor and then by marriage of their son and daughter, so has Daryl Hall, the renowned performer, conjoined their ancestral homes - the disestablished and re-erected 1786 Oliver Hanchett House from Suffield, Connecticut and the nearby 1770 Bates Tavern of East Granby, Connecticut - through a beamed, fireplaced and catwalked great room to create a cohesive 24 room country manor house.

It now presides grandly over a 114 acre private estate in North East, New York where the house enjoys 100 mile Catskill views and 40 mile easterly prospects of the Litchfield Hills.

It boasts 9 fireplaces, 4/5 bedrooms, 5 full and 2 half baths, a center hall, numerous parlors, sitting rooms and libraries, a country kitchen, paneled and fireplaced keeping room, the original tavern room, state of the art pool and party house and mechanicals (conversion-ready for geo-thermal) and museum quality period detailings far too numerous for enumeration here.

The entire estate includes a rear quadrangle with colonnaded pergola, three guest houses, gardens, mature groomed and natural woods, meadows, farm roads, stone walls and walks, terraces, a neolithic fire pit (created and installed by internationally respected British landscape designer Keir Davidson), and a pond.

The long meandering entrance driveway fronts on a gravel road connected to some of the major historic estates of Smithfield Valley.

Neighbors include hundreds of acres of conserved land, major farms, a winery and the Kildonan Preparatory School. More land available.

The Millbrook horse country, Sharon, Connecticut and the train to Westchester County and New York City are in close proximity and is less than a two hour drive from Manhattan.