A 19th-century Westchester County horse farm once owned by the Bailey family — of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus — has sold for $3.85 million.
It first asked $6.95 million in 2017.
Long before it was part of the “Greatest Show on Earth,” George Fox Bailey, the son of Bailey Circus founder Hachaliah Bailey, owned the property — at 306 Hardscrabble Road in North Salem, New York — in the 1840s.
He eventually took the circus nationwide and became a partner in the P. T. Barnum show.
By the 20th century, the spread was owned by a family of dairy farmers.
The current sellers were Paul Friedman, a former network news producer, and his wife Gillian, whose renovation in 2000 added a great room/family room with a Christopher Peacock farmhouse kitchen to the Federal-style home.
At 5,285 square feet, it features five bedrooms, four bathrooms and a powder room. The property also features two barns, 25 horse stalls and both indoor and outdoor rings.
There’s also a pool, a putting green and gardens — over 26 acres. The annual Golden’s Bridge Hounds fox hunt, one of the country’s oldest, runs through the property every fall.
The listing brokers were William Pitt Julia B Fee Sotheby’s Joanna Rizoulis and Amy Smith-Sroka.
