 The house is located on a one-third-acre () lot in the corner between the two streets, at the bottom of a steep hill King descends from the east.It is at the eastern edge of downtown Chappaqua, an unincorporated hamlet of the town of New Castle nestled in a level area of a hilly region.The Saw Mill River, paralleled closely by the eponymous parkway and Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, are in a corridor to the west.