Spiderweed Preserve

On a public walking trail in Middletown sits the ruins of Helen Lohman’s summer home. Lohman was an NYC resident who used the circa 1740 house as a farmhouse. Each year when she would return to the house in the late spring she would see the garden in a state of decay covered weeds, thus she coined the house and landed “Spiderweed”. In 1967 the land and house would be donated to the Middletown conservancy. The house's legacy is preserved in the woods about half a mile from the trailhead of the preserve: without vandalism, amidst the undergrowth, the house remains in a remarkable state.