$500,000 Homes in Mississippi, Missouri and New York – The New York Times

Jackson, Miss. | $459,000A 1916 Tudor Revival-Craftsman house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a 0.75-acre lot

This is one of two houses on Gillespie Street designed by Noah Webster Overstreet (1888-1973), a local architectural engineer and designer, and built on what had recently been farmland. Today, the house occupies 2 1/3 lots in the Belhaven neighborhood, a historic district about two miles northeast of the center of Jackson, the states capital, and minutes from schools (Belhaven University, Millsaps College) and health care facilities (Baptist Medical Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center).

Decorative exterior features include clay tiles inlaid in stucco, Craftsman brackets supporting the eaves, restored window boxes, accessible through upstairs windows, and hand-stenciled concrete walkways. After the roof was damaged in a storm four years ago, the owners replaced the French clay tiles and copper gutters to match the originals. They also updated the plumbing and electrical systems.

Size: 3,120 square feet

Price per square foot: $147

Indoors: The entrance is on the side of the house, through a door the owners had locally milled. To the left of the vestibule is a red living room with white-painted molding, original heart-pine floors and built-in bookshelves. This room flows through a lofty doorway with a transom window into a sunroom with arched windows, stucco walls and clay-tile floors.

Straight ahead of the entrance is a family room with a decorative brick fireplace and its own sunroom access. On the right is the updated kitchen, which has original heart-pine floorboards, subway and pressed-tin accent tiles, laminate-topped cabinetry and stainless steel appliances, including a Viking gas range. The kitchen is connected to a butlers pantry with a wall of vintage cabinets; this area flows into a sunny dining room with more examples of the robust Craftsman-style molding found throughout the main floor.

Leading out to the backyard is a large windowed room with linoleum floor tiles, built-in cabinets and a full bathroom. Currently used as a crafts room and laundry room, it could easily be converted into a bedroom. There is also a half bathroom next to the staircase, with dog-patterned wallpaper.

The second-floor landing wraps around the upper part of the staircase with the original Craftsman banister. The four bedrooms radiating from it include a master with banks of mullioned windows, a niche with a window seat, two closets and a bathroom with a combined tub and shower. One guest room is currently used as a study and has a built-in cupboard. A corner guest room has a window seat with storage and built-ins. There is also an upstairs sunroom with two walls of windows and built-ins, and a hall bathroom with a claw-foot tub.

A door in the downstairs butlers pantry opens to a staircase descending to the basement. What were once maids rooms are currently used for storage. A fireplace and the remains of a bell system to summon the staff are still there.

Outdoor space: The house has a remote-controlled driveway gate, a fenced front porch and a side garden with a gazebo and paths; it is fully enclosed in the back. The sunroom walks out to a back deck that descends to the yard, with additional multilevel decks on the other side of the house. Parking is in a rear carport, with plenty more room in the driveway.

Taxes: $2,150 (2019, with exemptions)

Contact: Lynn Fillingham, RE/MAX Marketplace, 601-941-1105; lynnfillingham.com

This third-floor unit in the Sophian Plaza, a luxury building across from Southmoreland Park, is in the heart of Kansas Citys cultural district, less than five minutes on foot from the Nelson-Atkins Museum and Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park, which it overlooks, and the same distance from the Kansas City Art Institute and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. The historic Country Club Plaza shopping center is about a half-mile away.

Size: 1,850 square feet

Price per square foot: $270

Indoors: The main entrance to the eight-story brick building with limestone and terra-cotta detail is approached through a columned forecourt. The grand lobby is clad in black-and-white marble and hung with brass chandeliers and wall sconces.

This particular unit, which is on the northeast corner and has been updated in the last decade, opens to a hallway with hardwood floors and charcoal-gray walls with white picture rail molding. (A second, service entrance was blocked to create closet space, but could be reopened.) At the end is a sitting room with the same features and color scheme; it connects through two doorways to a carpeted living room (previously a third bedroom and a sunroom that were combined) with an antique marble fireplace flanked by built-in bookshelves. On the other side is a formal dining room. All of the rooms, except the bedrooms, have plantation shutters on their large windows, and there is a built-in sound system with speakers in every room.

The kitchen has countertops and floor tile of marble, and Bosch appliances. There is also a small, marble-topped breakfast bar.

Turning left from the front entrance takes you into the master bedroom. The marble fireplace here and in the living room are gas powered and have television screens above the mantels that appear as mirrors when not in use. The en suite marble master bathroom has a waterfall shower, heated floors and another mirrored television. There is also a Bosch washer and dryer in the unit, supplementing free laundry facilities in the basement.

The guest bedroom is off the kitchen; it is carpeted and has three closets and dark-painted molding. Its en suite bathroom has Nero Marquina marble tile walls and a combined bath and shower.

Most of the furniture in the unit is for sale.

Outdoor space: A side terrace encircled by a portico offers communal seating. This unit has a deeded parking space and basement storage. (Additional parking spaces rent for $100 a month.)

Taxes: $4,885, plus a $985 monthly homeowner fee covering heat and water

Contact: Judy Rea, Brookside Real Estate Company, 816-210-7730; brooksiderealestate.com

Quaker Hill is a 12-mile-long ridge in eastern Dutchess County, N.Y., that was a mid-20th-century retreat for New York power brokers and is still popular with writers, actors, artists and gentleman farmers. In 1926, the writer and radio broadcaster Lowell Thomas bought 350 acres there and sold off parcels to his acquaintances. In 1948, Mr. Murrow paid $47,500 for this five-bedroom weekend house, which his son called Rumblewood, after the sound of the wind sweeping over the surrounding pastureland. Originally designed by George Kosmak and Ernst Payer for Charles E. Murphy, a lawyer, it was built by carpenters who worked on the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 Worlds Fair.

The house is 5.5 miles northeast of Pawling, a village of about 8,300 people with a Metro-North stop. The area includes parks, conservation lands and a trail system including the Appalachian Trail. New York City is about 70 miles south.

The proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Face-to-Face Project, a nonprofit that helps poor communities in Africa plant and maintain victory gardens.

Size: 2,700 square feet

Price per square foot: $183

Indoors: The seller bought the property in 2015 from the estate of Cliff Carpenter, a radio, television and film actor who was blacklisted in the 1950s. He renovated the kitchen and bathrooms and replaced the windows (the roof is 15 years old). He also conducted soil testing and replaced the oil tank.

Designed to comfortably accommodate children and guests and exploit western views, the house is entered through one of two doors at the edge of a large gravel auto court. A hallway bench and open staircase were kept simple to avoid the appearance of clutter. The living room at the end of the entrance hall has a vaulted ceiling, a wood-burning stone fireplace, a long window seat and a dining area with direct access to an outdoor patio.

Around the corner of the dining area is a kitchen with skylights, red subway-tile backsplashes and a built-in banquette.

The main floor has an office (it could also be used as a bedroom or studio) with a full bathroom to the left of the entrance. A studio with views to the west and a vaulted master bedroom with a full bathroom are on the other side. A pair of bedrooms on the second floor have a Jack-and-Jill bathroom.

Outdoor space: Parking is in an attached two-car garage. The property has a 10-acre easement and offers frequent sightings this time of year of bluebirds and woodcocks.

Taxes: $21,000 (estimated)

Contact: Adam Hade, Compass, 914-804-1754; compass.com

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