Exclusive | Third-oldest home in New York visited by George Washington, King Philippe, and friendly ghosts hits market for $8M

A slice of really cool New York history is up for grabs. Glen Sanders Mansion, the riverfront estate in Scotia, NY, believed to be the third-oldest surviving dwelling in New York State, has hit the market for $8 million, The Post has learned. The 75,000-square-foot property traces to 1658, when Scottish merchant Alexander Lindsay Glen built a stone dwelling on the Mohawk River and named the settlement Scotia, after his homeland. That one-room structure still stands, folded into the mansion around it, and the family held the estate 266 years until it was sold in 1962.“That room is still part of the house, which would make it the third oldest,” listing agent Angelo Michael Mazzone Jr, son of the mansion’s current owner, confirmed to The Post. Restaurateur Angelo Mazzone Sr bought the estate in 1988, opening it a year later as the flagship of what became Mazzone Hospitality. “We used to cater on their lawn.So when the house went up for sale, I said, well, we can make this a great restaurant and banquet hall,” Mazzone Sr said.Now 75, he said the decision to sell comes down to age. “I’ve worked 40, 50 years struggling, working really hard to keep everything up and running,” he said. His son isn’t taking over: “I’m an opera singer and a real estate agent,” Mazzone Jr said.

“I decided not to do this.”Mazzone Hospitality, the operating company, was sold to Compass International five years ago, but Mazzone Sr remains sole owner of the real estate itself. “It was my baby.I grew a company from this facility to a $70 million food and beverage company,” he said.

“But there’s really no one in my family that wanted to do it.”The mansion’s calling card is its list of storied visitors. George Washington stopped there while surveying the region’s northern defenses in 1775, though historians have long noted he slept across the river at the John Glen House in Schenectady’s Stockade District. “It’s been verified that he was the...