A Catskills estate lists for the first time in 200

A $14 million marvel born of old American money is up for sale in the Catskill Mountains.

Descendants of the Livingston family — whose patriarch once quite literally lorded over the Catskills — are selling their 1,600-acre estate after more than two centuries.

The offering, first reported by the Wall Street Journal , marks the first time Lake Delaware Farm and its country house will change hands since the founding of the United States. 11

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The 7,000-square-foot lakeside home — more than three hours by car from Midtown Manhattan — is a time capsule of well-to-do colonial taste, with doric columns, coffered ceilings, glossy parquet wood floors and marble fireplace mantels.

Its founders, the heiress Gertrude Livingston and early New York Governor Morgan Lewis, built the hom