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The Sububs: most New Yok-
es eact with avesion to
the thought o esh ai, quiet
steets, and divingack!but o
those who see the Big Apple as only
a place o wok and play, nding the
endlessly symbolic dwelling we call
home means going elsewhee. The
bustling, yet sometimes ovewhelm-
ing, enegy o the city
oten daws the heats and minds
o stay-eyed twenty-somethings
looking to become twenty-something
somebodies. The thiving dynamic
oce may be the citys allue at st,
but ate a ew yeas, one hunded
Booklyn lot paties, and a dozen
siniste oommates, the gown-up
lie o stability you secetly wanted
all along (but petended you wee
too cool o) aives just in time. In
the end, most New Yokes will stay
to eel connected to the histoy and
legacy o the ats, theate and media
industies, but othes would athe
connect to the histoy o home. Fo
those commutes, Bonxville and
South Oange Village, ae the best
getaways.
The Lawence Pak His-toic Distict is whee the
Mohican Indians deeded
the teitoy to Thomas
Pell and the st white set-
tles in the seventeenth
centuy. Its esidential
histoy is ounded on the
vision o wealthy busi-
nessman William Van Du-
ze Lawence (who also
ounded Saah Lawence
College in Bonxville in
1920). Van Duze bought
the 86-ace am and
tansomed it into a sub-
divided esidential aea in
1891 with the help o the
well-known, decadent Vic-
toian achitect William
Bates. Soon ate, the aea
became a hot spot esi-
dence o New Yok City
authos and atists, likeChalie Chaplin and Wil-
liam Howe, who sought
its pictuesque evival
styles. Lawence Pak
looks almost no dieent
today, maintaining the
same magnetism om the
neighbohoods distinc-
PeriodHomes
Outsidethe City
Leaving New York City doesnt mean leaving a rich and vital
history
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tive design, sweeping lawns and goomed
landscapes. One moe expensive home, is a
two-stoy 1886 hilltop Dutch revival com-
plete with a ull atist studio at $3.2 mil-
lion. Howeve this beautiul peiod home
doesnt come close to the $9.2 million ve
bedoom mansion tucked away in Maste-
ton Woods. The moe modest on the spec-tum is, a still gogeous,
$310,000 pe-wa
two-bedoom, suitable o any small am-
ily.
Ceda Knolls is anothe designated his-
toic distict in Bonxville and a geat place
to look o peiod homes. Each o these a-
chitectually unique homes is potected
by the aeas Landmak Status ganted in
1996. Although located in Yonkes, Ceda
Knolls shaes an addess with Bonxville,
which boasts itsel the 21st most auentin the nation. The homes,
built beoe the
Geat Depession, wee constucted as
pat o the colonial, Fench Noman, Ital-
ian renaissance and Mediteanean e-
vivals, each given its own distinguishable
aesthetic and design. The chaming ga-
den subub is ideal o amilies who seek
the assuance o a tight-knit community,
oten lost in a densely populated city. As o
August, the median list pice o one o the
144 Ceda Knolls homes is $272,000. A-
odability anges, but thee ae plenty ooppotunities o state homes
with one
bedoom houses anging om $84,000 to
$275,000. Fo those with a geate income
the most expensive homes ange om six
bedooms at $975,000 to eight bedooms
at $1.8 million.
New Jesey: anothe two wods that
make most ubanites cinge. I youve
lived in the city long enough, youe pob-
ably well awae o the nice pats o New
Jesey. South Oange Village is anothe
aea ipe with histoy. The teitoy was
puchased om the Lenape Native Amei-
cans in 1666. The 1800s saw the develop-
ment o county clubs, an infux o wealthy
amilies om New Yok City, and the his-
toic Village Hall. While the homes ae lessmodest than that o
Bonxville, they ae
moe aodable on the auent side and
moe spacious. Fo example, a spawling,
seven bedoom and six bath, Gand Colo-
nial is just $975,000. Howeve the typical
pice o any one o these landmak homes
is aound $600,000.
Leaving New Yok City doesnt
mean leaving a ich and v ital his-
toy. These quaint and beauti-
ully designed neighbohoods
ae ideal o puchasing peiodhomes.
Mohican Indiansdeeded the
territory to ThomasPell and the frst
white settlers in theseventeenth
century
Federalist Style Architec-
ture: Central Pavilion Ton-
tine Crescent by Charles
Bulfnch, 1793-1794
Trinity Church, South
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