{"id":574,"slug":"borland-house-montgomery-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Borland House is the doubled — the '1780s' that's the first's build, the 'Greek added' that's the '30's grand. The 'lawyer's' is the owned — the 'District Attorney' that's the man's rank, the 'five lines' that's the owners' count. The 'hundred years' is the kept — the 'Borlands' that's the longest's name, the 'Hintz' that's the match's run.","The 'feet shadow' is the seen — the 'footsteps' that's the dining's sound, the 'TVs turn' that's the spirits' play. The 'warmth felt' is the claimed — the 'happy' that's the ghosts' mood, the 'kept well' that's the owner's care. Borland House is the grand — the 'pocket doors' that's the detail's mark, the 'Doric' that's the columns' kind.","The file keeps Borland: the doubled build, the lawyer's rank, the shadowed feet, and the happy spirits.","Borland House is the archive's New York file — the inn where the ghosts approve of the upkeep."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Borland House is the archive's New York file — the B&B where the spirits are content.","A house keeps its owners — the file's suggestion being that Borland's hold is the kept: the 'five lines' that's the lineage's count, the 'hundred years' that's the run's length, and the 'happy' that's the ghosts' verdict."]}],"name":"Borland House","aliases":["Borland House Bed & Breakfast"],"type":"BED_AND_BREAKFAST","type_label":"Bed And Breakfast","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic inn with staff and guest reports of footsteps, shadows and television anomalies.","full_desc":"Borland House is a bed and breakfast in Montgomery, New York. Historic inn with staff and guest reports of footsteps, shadows and television anomalies. The house dates to the 1780s, with an early nineteenth-century Greek Revival expansion; Charles Borland Jr. and Isabella Hill Borland were associated residents. Reported lore and claims include: The trail attributes late-night footsteps and shadow figures to a manager’s account, and footsteps outside guest rooms and televisions switching to guest reports.","address":"130 Clinton Street","city":"Montgomery","county":"Orange","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.521266,"lon":-74.238661,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Guest rooms and public dining areas only for booked guests or authorized events; do not disturb other residents.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.borlandhouse.com/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":61.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":437,"type":"FOOTSTEPS","description":"The trail attributes late-night footsteps and shadow figures to a manager’s account, and footsteps outside guest rooms and televisions switching to guest reports. Borland House, a hotel in Montgomery, New York, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. Witnesses report it; the record leaves it there. The account appears in 'Borland House'. It's the sort of report that survives precisely because it asks you to listen, not look.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Borland House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-borland-house-bed-breakfast","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The house dates to the 1780s, with an early nineteenth-century Greek Revival expansion; Charles Borland Jr. and Isabella Hill Borland were associated residents. Borland House's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Borland House' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Borland House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-borland-house-bed-breakfast","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Borland House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-borland-house-bed-breakfast","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}