 All the other houses on the street to the north of the one-acre () lot where the building stands are of modern, late 20th- and early 21st-century construction and design.To the east is the former Butterfield Memorial Hospital, another large abandoned property awaiting restoration.A line of mature trees stands along the top of a slight drop to the south which gives it a view over the Hudson River to the United States Military Academy at West Point to the south, Crow's Nest, Storm King and other peaks of the Hudson Highlands to the east and Newburgh Bay to the north.