Considered the oldest residence in the village, this house, built in 1750, was known for generations as the Haight family homestead. Originally owned by early entrepreneur Philip Hart, it was purchased in 1795 by Ebenezer Mott and sold in 1802 to John Haight Jr. The structure is actually two houses combined, with one half moved here when the Haight farm and apple orchard were developed to become Millbrook. Harts Village, an earlier hamlet named for the Hart family, was a busy manufacturing center farther along the road on the east branch of Wappingers Creek, whose water power drove several important and successful mills. An 1817 watercolor by Jonathan Thorne depicts the Philip Hart House, its outbuildings, and one of Hart's mills. Today Harts Village is part of the Village of Millbrook.