In 1986, when John MacMurray was 10, his parents bought a crumbling 19th-century farmhouse in New Lebanon, New York, near the border of Massachusetts, that few others would have considered.

“We didn’t even want to get out of the car because it was such a dump,” MacMurray recalled to The Post. “But my dad fell in love with it. And I understand why. It’s remote, situated on a beautiful piece of land.”

Nearly 40 years later, the Mossford Estate — as the family came to call it — has been listed for $2.47 million with Anthony D’Argenzio of Houlihan Lawrence. 15

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The property spans 144 acres in the Hudson Valley and includes a 3,686-square-foot main house, an antique barn, a pond, a tennis court and broad meadows framed by forests.

The house, dating to around 1800, had been left

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