c. 1840 Bookstore - Cherry Valley, NY

Jen S. | 2 comments

5 years ago

Buy it as an AirBnB… check out this one in Scotland! Guests can stay upstairs and run it for a minimum of one week. It is booked through 2021 and has a wait list for after that date! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/books/open-book-wigtown-bookstore.html

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Ross | 2549 comments

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5 years ago

How totally fabulous. Thank you for the link!

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Zann | 507 comments

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5 years ago

That is absolutely brilliant.

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susan | 1 comments

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8 months ago

Godbless people like you – this made my heart happy. I mean I’m not subscribed to the nytimes, so I couldn’t read the article… but the concept made me weep.

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Eileen M | 281 comments

5 years ago

Wow! What a cute cottage this could be.

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Zann | 507 comments

5 years ago

For someone looking to retire or at least live a quieter life, this is a perfect opportunity. If I were 20 years older, this would be ideal.

Bookstores may be a dying breed, but for $52,500 you can own the building, no rent, no lease, so who cares if you sell more than three books a month?

The town itself is very picturesque.

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Joan | 55 comments

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5 years ago

How cute is it to renovate the bookstore and live upstairs you get a new occupation and a new home address at the same time I think you can make money

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Zann | 507 comments

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5 years ago

That was my thought. Especially if you’ve retired from your previous life. You would own your business and home. One power bill/water bill/etc. You would have your pension, so if you sold anything great. If not, your bills are still paid, so who cares?

Where I work, it is very common for people to retire after 25 years and move on to a new career. There are people in their late 30s with 15 years already under their belt. I could see this easily attracting someone with plenty of yourthful energy and gumption left to do the remodel themselves.

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Georgena Cameron | 1 comments

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4 years ago

Do it, NOW ……likely by the time that you are twenty years older, it will be too late for a multitude of reasons.

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hollyq | 74 comments

5 years ago

I wish there were more pics of the living area.

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Susannah Gaddis | 507 comments

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5 years ago

If 800 sq ft is accurate, I think we saw all there is to the living area. Part of the upstairs is taken up with bookshelves. I was thinking about it last night, and I realized there were no bathroom or kitchen photos, which kind of puts a damper on my zeal. I suppose they could fit into the area where the upstairs shelves are?

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Sandy B | 937 comments

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5 years ago

Good questions for the listing agent……… and…..depending on the configuration of the lot, could a kitchen/bath be added to the rear of the building?? Of course city water and sewer would have to be available. Cute town, I love all the old, “general store,” type buildings.

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brigid | 614 comments

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5 years ago

Trulia lists it as 1 bed 1 bath and Zillow lists the bedroom as ‘studio’. Would be nice if there were photos.

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Karen | 1831 comments

5 years ago

I love that register! I grew up in a house with one large central register, and one of these fancy ones in the ceilings of the first floor. The heat didn’t rise up enough to make a difference in our Western NY winters, but those registers are so pretty!

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Unruly Julie | 430 comments

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5 years ago

I spent an absolutely frigid night in an old farmhouse in Attica NY one Christmas vacation. It had beautiful old registers in the floor as well. They did no discernable good as far as I could tell! It was however, a good way to eavesdrop on the adults in the rooms below! ?

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Karen | 1831 comments

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5 years ago

TX, you’re right! One year, my sister and I knew everything we were getting for Christmas, because we’d heard through the register in our bedroom, our parents talking about what they’d bought us! And, one year, My mother asked what I wanted for Christmas. I really wanted and electric blanket. She asked why-her bedroom was downstairs where it was warm-and I said I was tired of using 4 or 5 blankets at night to keep warm! So, then, my sister and brother wanted an electric blanket, too. Good idea, in an old house! We did eventually get a new furnace, that used baseboard heat through out the house. Then, I was mad my mom hadn’t gotten forced air, so we could have air conditioning. If it gets very cold in this area in the winter, it also gets hot and very humid in the summer! They say its why Niagara County is just as good for growing wine grapes as the Finger Lakes and California! : ) I do wish I had those registers, though. On either HGTV or DIY tv stations, I saw where someone had taken a bunch of them, and made a fence for the edge of a loft in a house. It was so darling, such a good idea for a way to re purpose them!

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VMaloney | 97 comments

5 years ago

I wonder if it includes the books too…I could rummage around in there for hours!

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Unruly Julie | 430 comments

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5 years ago

It says in the description that they are included.

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Jennifer Wirt | 66 comments

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5 years ago

Yes the books are included. That is a double bonus in my eyes.

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Deborah W Mann | 130 comments

5 years ago

Clear out the books and live there!! Or…..make it a little shop of various things…and a few books. Baked good maybe. A place to sit and read, relax and wifi. Just a thought.

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JJ | 92 comments

5 years ago

I would buy this for the books alone. The cute cottage would be a bonus. I would be in literary heaven!

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brigid | 614 comments

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5 years ago

JJ I agree! I would buy this just for the books. I could care less if I sold any I just want to sit and read in the chair out front or maybe the stairs inside if it was cold.

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Karen Abadie | 119 comments

5 years ago

Does the sale include the books?

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Mandy | 252 comments

5 years ago

I could live in a bookstore like this.

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Rondi | 13 comments

5 years ago

What an absolute dream! I am already imagining this life. It’s wonderful!

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Cora | 3166 comments

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5 years ago

It’s adorable! I would shop there often if it were near me. All those books…in that setting… imagine the treasures those shelves hold. ?

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Sandy B | 937 comments

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5 years ago

As a, “bookaholic,” I am totally enamored by the prospect of buying this totally charming store and cataloging ALL those books!! There may even BE some from 1840…..sure be fun to hunt through.

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5 years ago

In a world of cell phones, kindles, streaming, this is a time capsule that would be worth escaping to. It has just enough comfortable clutter to make me feel at home. My own book collection looks like this piled on the floor, stuffed into cabinets and bookshelves. A book is a tactile experience as well as the pleasure of the written word. Not unlike removing a record from its sleeve and putting it on the turntable, listening, and admiring the album cover. The good old days.

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Sandy B | 937 comments

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5 years ago

Tapwater, your comment could easily have been written by me. My books sort of ooze out of every possible space in my house and I love it. The different subjects seem to represent different eras of my life. I also believe the tactile experience in reading a book completes the pleasure of it, thus never liked cheap books with cheap paper.

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kmmoore | 419 comments

5 years ago

Ummm yes please! How magical!

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Ryan | 447 comments

5 years ago

This makes me wish I had learned to read!

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Gigi Regnier | 36 comments

5 years ago

A library of my very own! Wonder if there are any first editions in that lot? Mercy, just shot the door & lock me in.

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5 years ago

I could live here and sell local honey, maple syrup, apple butter and serve coffee with scones every day! What a great price for a ready made lifestyle.

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Sandy B | 937 comments

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5 years ago

Add a couple of comfy wingback chairs and you’d have a line out the door!!!

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Catt | 45 comments

5 years ago

Wait. You get the building AND the books?! No words. No—-I—-how——me!!!

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KathyC | 34 comments

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5 years ago

this is actually the first place here I am seriously looking into-this would be perfect

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Zann | 507 comments

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5 years ago

If you do, please let us know! If you keep the store open, OHD readers would need to come visit you.

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KathyC | 34 comments

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5 years ago

oh-I would TOTALLY keep it open! Probably do some cleaning and straightening, but other than that, I would become the new old books store seller!

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Zann | 507 comments

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5 years ago

That would be awesome. If you go for it, consider this as me wishing you the absolute best of luck and cheering you on.

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Emma's mom | 13 comments

5 years ago

This is my dream come true. Hw lovely. I feel joy just looking at the photos.

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Knothere2day | 17 comments

5 years ago

Oh how lovely! A little slice of heaven on earth.

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Mimi | 222 comments

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5 years ago

Quaint & wonderful— one of my favorite things— a historic book shop:-)
If there was a way to have indoor plumbing for a tiny bathroom might be possible to live upstairs. Unfortunately due to that does not seem feasible to have the Scottish arrangement. If it were it might be a fabulous idea.

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jimtown | 82 comments

5 years ago

I can just imagine the good ‘old’ smell in there. It reminds me when we took our grandson into an antique store with us. First thing he said when we walked in the door was, “It smells good and old in here”. We knew we were doing our job then.

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Robin | 1 comments

5 years ago

Hmmmm, buy it, add more marketable things (candles,lotions and locally acquired items) and list the books online…should be profitable!

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abevy | 292 comments

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5 years ago

Darling, as a retired Librarian this would be a dream. Remember I was retired before shushing was bad, before computers, and the newer less appropriate books were popular. I would get rid of the fly tape and close the hole for the old furnace and perhaps a quick slap of paint and I would be happy.

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Patrick | 26 comments

5 years ago

I just bought a similar, but larger 1926 building with a shop and garage on the first floor and a 2 bed living quarters upstairs. It’s 3 blocks from Lake Michigan and a state park. I am retired and am going wild with imagination with what to do with the potential retail space on the first floor. I’m thinking of a fake coffee shop with bad coffee and yesterday’s newspaper. I won’t make any money, but will have lot’s of free conversation. I can’t wait to get moved in.

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Leah S | 182 comments

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4 years ago

I have thought about (okay, DREAMED about) this place several times since seeing it on OHD last summer. I even researched the little town and it’s history. How can it be that it is still on the market? It looks heavenly. And the books … the books!

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brigid | 614 comments

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4 years ago

It actually has ‘haunted’ my dreams, also. I am totally amazed this hasn’t sold. If it were in my town or close to it there’s no doubt I would have bought it!

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Sandy B | 937 comments

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4 years ago

I loved the bookstore also…..along with a lot of us…….and thought how great to buy the following 1900 house with great bones, which was last listed at 34,000. It’s now again off the market, but that doesn’t mean it’s not available. Knowing little about that part of NY, I’d redo the house while I inventoried and ran the bookstore……sounds like a reasonable plan to me at pretty amazing low cost.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/35-Church-St-Cherry-Valley-NY-13320/216225422_zpid/

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