The Real Housewives of Recent York City alum Dorinda Medley is selling a portion of her iconic Blue Stone Manor mansion.
People reported on Thursday, July 30, that Medley, 61, is selling just below 3.7 acres of her estate in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, for $1.2 million. The land comes with its own private entrance and access road, and is surrounded by protected conservation land on the edges.
“Once you’re on this property, it’s unlike anything you’ve ever experienced,” Medley told the magazine. “I all the time say, the minute I’m going through the gates, time just stops. You allow the whole lot behind. It’s such as you’ve entered into an entire different world. It’s peaceful and calm and restorative, in a way words can’t do justice.”
Dorinda explained that she had the property professionally surveyed for the primary time since her late husband, Richard Medley, purchased it in 2005, which led her to comprehend that the house actually sat on nearly 20 acres.
“I believed to myself, ‘Why do I want 20 acres?’” she said. “I’d been blissful with nine! Now I came upon I owned 19 and a half! It just felt excessive. And I believed to myself, ‘I don’t wish to pay all these taxes on this land I’m not even using.’ It felt wasteful, since the land I own is to date away from the home. I don’t use the land like they did when the house was first built. It isn’t necessarily for the property anymore.”
Dorinda previously believed that the land had been owned by another person.
“I’m going on quite a lot of long walks, especially in the autumn. And for years and years, I’d been walking on that land pondering I used to be trespassing on another person’s property the entire time!” she said. “I’d say to anyone who was with me, ‘We’re gonna walk the horse trails, but I don’t know who owns it, so we gotta be quick.’ Seems, it’s me! I own it!”
Dorinda subsequently hired a law firm for a full evaluation of the land before reorganizing the property into three lots. Considered one of those lots is now up on the market.
“I kept three acres behind my house for protective reasons,” she said. “However the property that I’m selling is way down there that nobody would even notice it was meant to be connected to this land.”
For Dorinda, her hope is that the brand new owner feels a connection to the space. “I hope whomever buys it builds a phenomenal historical home here,” she said. “Something that basically matches into the spirit of this special, special place.”