In the 1920s, after its stint as a tavern and stagecoach shop for travelers - Saratoga Springs used to be a booming resort destination referred to as the “queen of the spas” for its naturally carbonated mineral waters - a pair of women purchased and expanded the property, tacking on an addition out of which they operated a cafe called the Singing Kettle Tearoom that, this being the Prohibition era, might have sold other beverages more covertly. By then, too, the pace of their lives was wearing on them.īuilt in 1833 from limestone quarried on the property, the Old Stone House, as it’s known among locals, has seen much life over the years. But the design process dragged on, and then the pandemic hit, which meant that the construction work never really got started. In 2018, the couple, who by this point had two young daughters in tow, purchased and embarked on a gut renovation of a detached two-story home in Windsor Terrace. Eventually, she joined Martin uptown, after which they moved first to a condo in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood, and then to a rowhouse in Crown Heights. “It was like a long-distance relationship,” jokes Ventosa Martin. When they met, in 2003, they were both living in Manhattan, but at opposite ends of it - he in Washington Heights and she in the Financial District.
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Ventosa Martin grew up on Staten Island and Martin, who grew up in D.C., moved to Manhattan’s Lower East Side at 19. For many years, Melissa Ventosa Martin, a fashion stylist, and her husband, Walter Martin, a musician, lived in New York City and, as is common in its complex real estate market, in various parts of it.