Webb Horton House
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Webb Horton House
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Partial south elevation, 2008
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| Location | Middletown, NY |
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| Coordinates | 41°26′19″N 74°25′33″W / 41.43861°N 74.42583°WCoordinates: 41°26′19″N 74°25′33″W / 41.43861°N 74.42583°W |
| Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha) |
| Built | 1906 |
| Architect | Frank Lindsey |
| Architectural style | Various 19th and 20th century revival styles |
| NRHP Reference # | 90000690 |
| Added to NRHP | 1990 |
The Webb Horton House, is an ornate 40-room mansion in Middletown, New York, United States, designed by local architect Frank Lindsey. Built 1902-1906 as a private residence, since the late 1940s it has been part of the campus of SUNY Orange. This building is now known as Morrison Hall, after the last private owner, and houses the college's main administrative offices. A nearby service complex has also been kept and is used for classrooms and other college functions.
The mansion is an extravagant combination of styles and materials that has been altered very little during its ownership and use by the college. In 1990 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The house sits on a low hilltop on South Street between East Conkling and Grand View avenues in the southwest quadrant of the city. It has a view to the southeast. The five-acre (2 ha) lot that was originally the mansion property is now part of the college campus, but it still has its original curvilinear road and path system as well as four contributing outbuildings. On the north (rear) of the house is its original 1.7-acre (6,900 m2) lawn, sloping gently down toward Wawayanda Creek behind the college. That lawn now serves as the college's main quad.
The college campus surrounds the house on three sides, with a large modern building called Hudson Hall immediately to the east. A 6½-foot–high (2 m) stone and iron fence, ornamented with scrolls and the initials "WH" on the main gate, screens the house from South Street and the parking lots across it. Large, mature trees grow around the house. The neighborhood around the campus is residential.
The house has load-bearing walls sided in rock-faced marble tied into its steel frame. It is 118 feet (36 m) long and 80 feet (24 m) wide. It rises two stories above a high basement, with all windows protected by cast and wrought iron grilles, to steeply pitched hipped roofs surfaced in green ceramic tile and pierced by ornate dormer windows. Three-story towers rise on the front and rear facades.
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