Inside Peary Homestead, a $4.5 Million Manor in N.Y.’s Germantown

Upstate New York‘s Germantown is a place of great cultural significance. A group of German migrants known as the Palatines settled in the riverside town in the early 1700s, hence the name. The area also has ties to the Revolutionary War and the Rockefeller family. One 19th-century property steeped in that rich history could now be yours.

The Gothic Revival manor, dubbed Peary Homestead, has stood tall in Germantown for nearly 200 years. Captain Robert Peary had the namesake…