The great room of the main residence: hand-carved timber trusses, a lit two-story stone fireplace, a brass fire pole, the mezzanine above, and a greenhouse window wall opening to the forest.

Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania

The
Clearing

A three-parcel estate on Swiftwater Creek: fifty acres, two houses, a hand-built main residence, and a single owner.

Walk the property
50 acres ±
three contiguous parcels
2 houses
residence and 1902 farmhouse
Swiftwater Creek
frontage and a stocked pond
90 minutes
from New York and Philadelphia

The package

Three parcels.
Two houses.
Fifty acres.
One ownership.

Three contiguous parcels under one ownership, sold as a single transaction. The main residence sits on Parcel I; the 1902 farmhouse and standing barn on Parcel II; an adjoining buffer lot is Parcel III. Acquired in one window, held in one hand, marketed in one breath.

A retroactive assembler would need three willing sellers, three closings, frontage water on at least one parcel, and a residence that cannot be flipped because it was hand-built. That sequence is no longer available in this corridor.

The maker

The main residence was designed and built by the owner, not commissioned, not flipped, not a developer build.

The buyer’s first email is answered directly by the same person. There is no listing-agent layer and no broker. The Clearing is sold the way it was built: in one hand, on a long timeline, without intermediaries.

The mezzanine walkway running the long axis of the house beneath hand-carved timber trusses.
The mezzanine walkway, beneath the trusses.

The main residence

A house built once,
by hand.

A hand-built timber and stone shell at the center of the property. Hand-carved exposed trusses cross the great room. A two-story stone hearth anchors the dining wing. A greenhouse window wall opens the salon to the rear lawn, a mezzanine runs the long axis of the house, and a commercial kitchen with a stone island bar serves the great room.

8Bedrooms
4Bathrooms
25Sleeps

Offered fully furnished and turnkey, with a whole-house generator.

The grand salon: stone fireplace, sectional seating, and the two-story greenhouse window wall opening to the forest.
The salon, beneath the greenhouse wall.
The commercial kitchen with a stone island bar, opening to the great room with the mezzanine above. The entry foyer with timber stairs and a stone wall.
The stone turret entrance at the front of the house.
The stone turret entrance.
  • Hand-carved timber trusses
  • Two-story stone hearth
  • Working brass fire pole
  • Greenhouse window wall
  • Commercial kitchen, stone island bar
  • Kosher kitchen
  • Home theatre, tiered seating
  • Game room: billiards, foosball, ping pong
  • Cedar sauna
  • Stocked koi pond, gazebo, windmill
  • Children’s treehouse and net
  • Two fire pits, hot tub at the forest edge

Embedded into the residence is a decade of New York City architectural salvage. Each object kept its origin and was built into the structure rather than displayed alongside it.

Pieces of New York

Objects of New York, held over.

Not decoration. Salvage with provenance, set into the building and still in use.

A round porthole window of pink Carnegie marble above a live-edge bench.

From a Carnegie Hill brownstone

A pink marble porthole and the bluestone foyer stairs, reset into the salon and the entry.

A working brass fire pole rising through the great room between the upper and lower floors.

From a New York City firehouse

A working brass fire pole, still operable, joining the two floors of the great room.

The rooms

Eight bedrooms, a theatre, and a game room.

A bedroom lined with built-in bookshelves, with a sofa and a wall-mounted screen.
A bedroom lined with shelves
A bedroom with twin beds and a deep bay window onto the forest.
A bay window on the forest
A bedroom under the eaves with a corner of windows and a forest view.
Under the eaves
A bedroom with a timber ceiling and windows to the trees.
A corner of windows
The home theatre with tiered red seating.
The home theatre
The game room with a billiards table set in the timber loft.
The game room

The grounds

Creek edge,
pond, and forest.

Swiftwater Creek runs the rear boundary. A stocked pond, a gazebo, a working windmill, a hot tub at the forest edge, a flagstone patio, and a fire pit sit between the residence and the creek. The buffer lot to the south is undeveloped, held intentionally as privacy.

The back of the house at dusk: the greenhouse window wall lit from within, a flagstone patio, a fire pit, and tall forest trees.
The rear elevation, the patio, and the forest threshold.
The stocked koi pond with a gazebo and a working windmill.
Swiftwater Creek running over rocks, with a single chair at the water.
A six-person hot tub set at the edge of the forest.
The deck at dusk: a long table set for dinner under string lights, the house glowing behind.
Dinner on the deck, after dark.
The grounds under snow: the gazebo and pond in deep winter.
The same grounds, under snow.

The land

Three pieces of land, assembled along the creek.

  • Parcel I

    The architectural main residence on landscaped grounds, roughly seven acres at the center of the property, with a stream through the southwest corner.

  • Parcel II

    A 1902 farmhouse with a standing barn, just under forty-one acres. Interior, condition reports, and the transaction structure for this parcel are shared directly with qualified buyers as part of the standard transaction package.

  • Parcel III

    An adjoining undeveloped buffer lot, included for privacy and contiguity.

Fifty contiguous acres leave room to shape: a private family compound, room to build, or a single retreat held whole. What it becomes is open, subject to local zoning and a buyer’s own review.

Held in one hand, the three parcels run to about fifty acres along Swiftwater Creek. A certified Shupp boundary survey dated February 2022 supports the structure, with Parcel II at 40.9985 acres ±. The full survey, parcel identifiers, and title context are shared by direct email after a qualified introduction.

The certification header of the boundary survey of The Clearing LLC, Paradise Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, dated February 11, 2022.
Certified boundary survey · Jonathan Shupp, P.L.S. · February 2022

The area

Private, but not remote.

The Clearing sits in the wooded interior of the Pocono Mountains, screened and quiet. Yet the slopes, the water parks, and the casino that fill the region are minutes away, and the city is a morning’s drive.

5 to 15 minutesCamelback, for skiing and snow tubing. Great Wolf Lodge and Kalahari, the indoor water parks. Mount Airy Casino. The Crossings outlets.
30 minutesJack Frost and Big Boulder.
90 minutesNew York and Philadelphia.
Close byEveryday shopping at ShopRite and Walmart, and Lehigh Valley Hospital–Pocono.
On footA summer camp with a daily minyan. Chabad, with a mikvah, a short drive on.

How to inquire

If the package
fits, write.

The Clearing is sold direct by the owner, with no broker, no public price, and no third-party tracking. Tell us who you are and what draws you to the property. Acquisition context, the diligence you would want to review, and your timing window all help. Serious inquiries are answered directly, and seller financing may be available to qualified buyers.

Or email owner@theclearingestate.com