Start outside and you’ll lose yourself in a fairytale setting as you view the canal through weeping willows, past trellises dotted with color and zinnias alive with butterflies. The splash of fountains will follow you as you cross the patios to the house.

Built c.1860, this 4 bedroom house still retains its original architectural details. A little breakfast table beside mullioned windows brings the outside into the kitchen, with country cabinets, soapstone counters, Dutch door. The kitchen passes through to a formal dining room with built-ins, high ceiling, wood floors. Large living room has original wood floors and fireplace. Upstairs, a sitting room separates two bedrooms, with a full bath and laundry, with a master bedroom and a second full bath. Downstairs, you have in-law potential with a walk-out door to a patio, tile floors, wood stove in the family room and full bath.

Welcome to Point Pleasant…once a busy center of commerce as a major shipping point for farmers from the interior, it is today one of the havens of escape for city folk looking for country peace and quiet.