SHERBURNE, N.Y. – As a native of Sherburne, the picturesque small town on the northern border of Chenango County, Jansen Casscles was well aware of the beautiful home at 52 East State Street.
“It is a landmark,” he said of the house.
It was built in 1932, on four acres on the edge of town, for Clarence Gaines, who revolutionized the dog food industry in 1928 when he introduced “a complete dog meal product that he had perfected for his own pets.”
“They were eating me out of house and home and not doing any good either,” Gaines once said.
(Dog owners might remember buying Gaines Burgers at their supermarket.)
The five-bedroom home remained in the Gaines family until 2005 when it was put on the market.
Casscles was interested in it.
“The house was essentially original,” Casscles said. “It was very well-built and had many unique features.”
The home features brass water lines, no fuses and is held up by steel I-beams.
A friend of his bought it instead, but it remained vacant for the next years.
He said he and his friend had many “back-and-forth” discussions about Casscles purchasing the property.
In 2014, he bought it.
“The timing was much better then,” he said.
He thought the property checked a lot of boxes for his growing family. It embodied everything good about “small-town living.”
The four acres were large enough for he and his sons to play baseball on and the home was within easy walking distance of schools and Paddleford Park, which has a community pool and pavilions for picnics.
Inside, his family of seven had more than enough space to move around in.
“The house has so many rooms to sit in,” Casscles said with a laugh.
The main living room is “gargantuan,” and the formal dining room can seat 12 people.
A sitting room, surrounded on three sides by windows is great for reading, while the “Octagon” room is perfect for breakfast and is where the children work on art projects because the “natural light there is incredible.”
Downstairs, in the walk-out basement, there is a toy room for the children to play in and they enjoy watching movies in the cozy den which has a beautiful stone, wood-burning fireplace in it.
Two years ago, a small ranch home, with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, was built on the property for Casscles' parents.
Constructed specifically for older people, the home has no stairs and has extra-wide doorways.
The new home is extremely energy efficient and Casscles jokes that “you can heat it with a candle.”
“My parents bought a load of firewood (for the fireplace in the living room) when the house was finished,” he said. “They would burn three sticks and the whole house was hot. It was insane.”
Casscles has another 100-acre property nearby and is looking to “consolidate.”
He closed by the interview by describing the enormous possibilities of his property on East State Street.
“The small house could be used for your in-laws or guests or as a rental,” he said. “The owners could live in it and then use as the main house as a bed and breakfast.”
For more information about this property, please contact realtor Michele Schachtler, of Coldwell Banker Sexton Real Estate. Her information is below.
THE DETAILS
Address: 52 East State Street, Sherburne, N.Y. 13460
Price: $799,000
Size: 4,546 square feet (this is a combined total for both homes)
Acreage: 4.02 acres
Monthly Mortgage: $2,705 (based on this week’s national average rate of 3.03 percent, according to Freddie Mac, for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with a 20 percent down payment. Fees and points not included.)
Taxes: $9,787 (Based on assessed value of $255,000)
Built: 1932
School District: Sherburne-Earlville
Kitchen: “I enjoy cooking there,” owner Jansen Casscles said about his spacious kitchen. There is a lot of room there which there has to be when all seven people are trying to make breakfast on school mornings. The room features soapstone counters, plenty of storage space, and appliances that are less than five years old, including the induction stovetop, which can boil a pot of water in about 90 seconds. He enjoys the views of the backyard from the window.
Living areas: The home is “essentially original” but has been updated. The hardwood floors have been refinished and geothermal heat pump has been added, provided hot water on demand and radiant heat in the floors. It is a very spacious house with rooms for every occasion. The living room is described as “gargantuan.” The dining room seats 12 people and has French doors which lead out onto an enclosed front porch. The “blue room” is a nice room for reading as it surrounded by windows. A unique “octagon” room is used by the children to work on art projects because the natural lighting is so good. A den in the walk-out basement, with a beautiful stone fireplace, is a quiet place for watching movies. The children often use the area as a hangout with their friends. There is a “toy room” for their things. A first-floor office could be remade into a bedroom. There is a first-floor laundry. The enclosed porch is the main point of entry and used primarily as a mudroom. There is an old-fashioned woodstove there.
Bedrooms: There are five bedrooms on the second floor, many of which have unique built-in dressers, drawers, and closets. The spacious master bedroom has two walk-in closets, built-in shelving, and its own dressing room. One of the children’s rooms has a built-in bed and desk.
Bathrooms: The home features three full bathrooms and two half-baths. They feature modern fixtures, but the original sinks have been kept.
Second house: A small, approximately 1,300 square foot, ranch-style house was built on the property two years ago for the owner’s parents. It features a living room, custom kitchen with Quartz counters and a 1967-era jukebox, two bedrooms and two bathrooms. It is very energy efficient and has a wood-burning fireplace in the living room. It was built for older people, with no stairs and extra-wide doorways.
Outdoors: Home is built on a “park-like” four acres and is located at the edge of the town of Sherburne, right where the sidewalks end. Owner loves the small-town feel of the community. The house is a short walk to the schools and to Paddleford Park, which has lighted baseball fields, a community pool and picnic pavilions. The back patio is great for outdoors entertaining. In the back yard there two sheds, a horse run, and a small paddock. The main house has new windows, a new metal roof and two new driveways. A new two-car garage brings the total garage spaces on the property to seven. The attached garage is heated.
Agent: Michele Schachtler
Coldwell Banker Sexton Real Estate
Address: 16 College Street, Clinton, N.Y. 13323
Phone: (315) 404-1398
Email: ShellySchachtler@Icloud.com
Website: www.sextonrealestate.com
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