Building
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 out to the southeast. The five-acre (2 ha) lot that was originally the mansion property is now part of the college campus, but 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 towards Wawayanda Creek behind the college, which 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 off the campus is residential.
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