{"nrhp_refnum":"90000690","name":"Horton, Webb, House","other_names":["Morrison Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"115 South St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Middletown","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.43865860400007,"lon":-74.42577187099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large marble mansion at 115 South Street in Middletown, Orange County, New York, built from 1901 as the residence of retired tanning industrialist Webb Horton, with four surviving estate outbuildings. It is now called Morrison Hall and serves Orange County Community College.","why_significant":"The house is a very large, architecturally intact mansion with elaborate marble carving and high-quality interiors, set apart from its modest neighborhood. It is tied to Webb Horton, whose tanning business was described as perhaps the largest of its kind in the world. It also reflects the work of Middletown architects Frank Lindsey and David Hastings Canfield.","narrative":"Built beginning in 1901 and finished around 1907, this marble mansion at 115 South Street in Middletown was the home of Webb Horton, a retired tanning magnate, and his family. The house measures about 118 by 80 feet, rises two full stories above a high basement, and carries three-story towers, marble-faced dormers, tall paneled chimneys and green ceramic tile roofs. Corinthian columns, carved cartouches with the monogram WH, and a porte cochere mark the exterior. Inside, a central hall is paneled in Circassian walnut, and the principal rooms include a music room, a circular reception room, a library and a mahogany-paneled dining room. Architect Frank Lindsey is credited with the design. Horton lived there only briefly before dying in 1908. The estate later became the campus of Orange County Community College, and the house, now Morrison Hall, remains well preserved. A garage and stable complex, greenhouses and a tool house also survive from the estate.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frank (Franklin J.) Lindsey, architect of the house; David Hastings Canfield, architect of the stable and garage complex (1908)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as part of the Orange County Community College campus (education/college); little altered, though porches have been enclosed and some windows changed for office space.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.773024-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90000690.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000690/7995fa0eea-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000690/7995fa0eea-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morrison_Hall,_SUNY_Orange,_Middletown,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morrison_Hall,_SUNY_Orange,_Middletown,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320676","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb_Horton_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7978656"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/horton-webb-house-90000690/"}