$3 Million Homes in New York, Texas and Massachusetts – The New York Times

Rhinebeck, N.Y. | $2.95 MillionAn 1892 converted carriage house with six bedrooms and six and a half bathrooms, on a 5.96-acre lot with a swimming pool

The Gilded Age architecture firm McKim, Mead & White designed this Georgian-style carriage house for George N. Miller, a doctor, as part of his inherited estate known as the Grove. Twentieth-century owners converted the slate-roofed building into a residence and gave it Asian-inflected decorative features and modern mechanical updates. The sellers added a second master suite and a guest bedroom, as well as two new bathrooms. (They also converted a downstairs half bathroom into a full one.)

The home is set back from the main road, two and a half miles northeast of the town of Rhinebeck, and four and a half miles northeast of the Amtrak station in Rhinecliff, N.Y. (The ride to New York City, about 100 miles south, is less than two hours.) It is about seven miles northwest of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies.

Size: 7,800 square feet

Price per square foot: $378

Indoors: The house has walls of plaster and exposed brick, and floors of hardwood and stone. Paneled exterior doors are gracefully arched, and high, square windows along the north side indicate the location of what once were horse stalls. Beyond the columned entry porch and vestibule is a living room with a large slate fireplace and a box-beamed ceiling that opens, atrium-like, to the second floor. (This was formerly the carriage room, where a pulley system hoisted vehicles to the attic for storage.) Three sets of French doors lead directly to the rear pool area.

The dining room also has a box-beamed ceiling and a fireplace (the surround is decorated with Asian-inspired figurative tiles). The kitchen includes nine-over-nine windows, dark-wood cabinets and double sinks, ovens and dishwashers. A central island has a built-in cooktop.

A study on the main level includes a slate fireplace with a conical copper hood. There is also a downstairs bedroom suite with direct access to the pool area and a bathroom with a separate tub and shower faced in decorative tile. The stone-topped vanity has vessel sinks with copper hardware; set above it are circular mirrors positioned in a larger reflecting glass.

Noteworthy in the upstairs master bedroom are a vaulted wood ceiling and a central partition that serves as a king-size headboard with built-in bedside tables. The large area behind the partition is lined in closets. Beyond that is an en suite bathroom with large stone tiles cladding the floor, walls and sides of the separate tub and walk-in shower.

Additional upstairs bedrooms include rectangular dormer windows as well as arched windows with tracery. A room used as a study has floor-to-ceiling bookshelves built into a quirkily shaped wall. Among the several bathrooms is one faced in mosaic tile, with a separate bathtub and glass-partitioned shower. Another has Tuscan-style tile inset with Renaissance portraits.

Outdoor space: The property has an extensive front lawn with a stone gate. The rear courtyard includes the swimming pool with a full pool bathroom converted from a potting shed, an outdoor dining area and two firepits.

Taxes: $52,540 (2019)

Contact: Rachel Hyman-Rouse, Gary DiMauro Real Estate, 917-686-4906; garydimauro.com

A modern-style rarity among the traditional architecture of the upscale River Oaks neighborhood in Houston, this home formerly consisted of a house and a separate garage. The two structures were united after the seller bought the property in 2012, enclosing the breezeway to conform with the architects original intentions and making many other improvements.

The house is about four miles southwest of downtown Houston; three-quarters of a mile southeast of the River Oaks Country Club, which abuts Memorial Park; and across the street from the River Oaks Elementary School.

Size: 6,298 square feet

Price per square foot: $476

Indoors: The front door takes you into a foyer with a 14-foot ceiling with exposed metal beams. To the left is a living room with 24-inch-square stone tile and ceilings that rise to 18.5 feet. To the right is a formal dining room with a concrete floor, a monorail light fixture and a wall of custom windows looking out to the courtyard (dual doors provide access).

The kitchen has Shiloh cabinetry with floating concrete countertops, Viking and Miele appliances and a breakfast bar with quartz accents. It flows into a family room that has a wall of built-in cabinetry, an entertainment niche and a hidden wet bar with a concrete countertop. A 70-square-foot wine room includes built-in storage.

A main-floor guest suite includes an adjacent bedroom and sitting room, both with gray-stained bamboo floors and access to the patio and interior courtyard. The en suite bathroom has an Italian porcelain walk-in shower with a rain shower head.

The main floor also has a powder room with a vessel sink on a floating concrete countertop, a toilet room and custom wallpaper designed with original photographs of Caracas, Venezuela.

The second floor includes a 21-by-19-foot master bedroom with a 14-foot-high metal barrel ceiling and a built-in king-size headboard that doubles as a room partition. The en suite bathroom is 27 by 18 feet and includes a walk-in shower with river-rock accents, a separate Victoria and Albert tub and a water closet with a Toto toilet. The walk-in closet has extensive built-ins.

A second suite includes a bedroom with a bamboo floor and a bathroom with a sauna and Vichy shower with seven shower heads. There is also an Air Bubble tub.

This level also includes an office with a metal barrel ceiling and a frosted-glass balcony that is open to the living room.

An additional bedroom suite is on the third floor. It includes a room with an elevated platform that was formerly used as a media room, an adjoining study area, a walk-in closet and an en suite bathroom with a walk-in shower.

Outdoor space: The front yard is professionally landscaped with river birch trees; the interior courtyard has lacebark elm trees and a fountain with built-in planters. Parking is in a two-car attached garage with rolling automatic grates, a separate one-car carport or the double-wide driveway.

Taxes: $52,404

Contact: Clayton Katz, Compass, 832-512-2180; compass.com

This single-family home is on a tree-lined, one-way cobblestone street at the border of the Back Bay and South End neighborhoods. It is a few minutes northwest on foot to the Back Bay train station and the Copley Place shopping center. A small park is directly across the street, allowing light to penetrate the lower floors.

The house received a gut renovation in the early 2000s and has had additional upgrades since then, including a roof deck that was installed in 2016. The current owners bought the property in 2018 and remodeled the kitchen, refinished the fireplaces and added climate-controlled 600-bottle wine storage to the unfinished basement.

Size: 2,212 square feet

Price per square foot: $1,347

Indoors: Entry is on the parlor floor, into a foyer that opens to the kitchen. The original floors are maple hardwood, and the new cabinets are white and traditionally styled, with solid and glass fronts. A long work island has some room for seating, and there is an adjoining breakfast nook looking out to the street. A ceiling-high partition with additional storage divides the kitchen from a living area with a fireplace. Sliding-glass doors open to a balcony overlooking a back patio.

A second living space (and fireplace) are on the lower level. Exposed brick and floor-to-ceiling open shelving line the walls, and there is a bathroom the sellers renovated with a walk-in mosaic-tiled shower. A door provides direct access to the back patio.

Two bedrooms (one with a wall of bookshelves), plus a bathroom dating to 2015 with a combined shower and tub, are on the second floor. (There is also a laundry area on this level.) The master suite takes up the skylighted third floor; it has a bedroom with sliding translucent doors that open to a sitting room or study. The five-year-old bathroom includes a double vanity and a walk-in mosaic-tiled shower with a rain shower head.

Outdoor space: A straight set of stairs takes you to the roof deck, which has water and electricity and is wired for sound (as is the entire house). Views are of downtown Boston and the Back Bay skyline.

A spiral staircase descends from the kitchen-level balcony to the ground-level back patio.

Taxes: $25,391

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