East Huntingdon farm could be idyllic retreat or commercial venture

Owners of a 57-acre property in East Huntingdon call it their little “Piece of Heaven,” but now they’re ready to pass their idyllic retreat to someone else.

Featuring a brick farmhouse and wooden barn dating to 1856, the property just south of Scottdale is listed for $639,900.

“It’s close to town, but you don’t feel like you’re close to town. It’s very quiet,” said Realtor Joshua Crowe, the listing agent for Berkshire Hathaway Home Services The Preferred Realtor.

The longtime owners say they have taken pride in owning and maintaining the property but plan to retire to the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

The three-level, 2,470-square-foot house has been renovated and features four bedrooms and two full baths. The finished walk-out basement includes a bedroom, bath, laundry room and office area.

There is cherry hardwood flooring and paneling throughout with custom cherry cabinetry in the modern kitchen.

A massive wood-burning fireplace in the living room was built with stone gathered from the surrounding property.

A front porch running the length of the house gives a sweeping view of the acreage and “is just a great place to sit and relax,” Crowe said.

The house also has a metal roof, hot water heat, a water well and public sewer.

Bordering Jacobs Creek, the property could be put to a multitude of uses, Crowe said.

It encompasses woods, fenced pastures and tillable acreage, along with several outbuildings, including the large wooden bank barn, three garage spaces, chicken coop, garden shed and small pole building.

The owners have operated Schwartz’s School of Tae-Kwon-Do in a space adjacent to the garages.

“I think the buyer is going to be someone who just wants to get out of the city and have space around them — or the buyer will be someone who’ll come in and put in a beautiful wedding venue or something like that,” Crowe said.

There are no zoning restrictions on the property, he noted.

The setting “hold(s) a lot of history, including Daniel Boone spending a winter here on the property and Native American Indians once occupying a part of the property,” the owners said. “You can go digging up on our hill and still find arrowheads.”

For more information or to schedule a tour, call Crowe at 724-593-6195 or visit zillow.com.