Historic ‘fairy tale’ house asks $3.9M in Hudson Valley

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A 19th-century fairy tale-style Victorian mansion in the Hudson River Valley has hit the market for $3.9 million.

The Upper Nyack estate, built in the Queen Anne Victorian style, is a cacophony of turrets, color, stained glass windows and multiple balconies jutting out at different angles — all overlooking the Hudson River. 

The estate was once owned by the economist Alvin Johnson, who co-founded The New School in 1918 and became its first director in 1922.

Johnson — known for creating the “university in exile” program, which helped 200 scholars flee Nazi persecution — bought the property in 1919.

He and his wife home schooled their seven kids here, where Johnson lived until his death in 1971. 

In his autobiography, “Pioneer’s Progress,” he wrote in a poetic, rambling style that reflected the architecture and asymmetrical structure of the home itself: “There I have lived since 1919, there I will live until ‘the Master of all good workmen calls me to work anew.”

The residence, at 309 North Broadway, Nyack, was originally built around 1887, designed by Horace Greeley Knapp for J.A. Bennett, US Consul to Bogotá, Colombia. That year, it was on the Christmas Eve cover of the Rockland County Journal, under the headline: “One of Rockland’s Artistic Residences, a Beautiful Building Recently Erected.”

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