House by the Railroad is a 1925 oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper.

[1] The house that is said to have inspired the painting is a Second Empire style Victorian mansion in Haverstraw, New York, where it still stands today.

[2] The painting is reported to have influenced the Bates home in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho,[3] one of the homes in the 1956 film Giant directed by George Stevens, the home Charles Addams created for The Addams Family,[4][5] and the house in Days of Heaven.

MoMA acquired it in 1930, one of the inaugural pieces to become part of the then new art institution's holdings.

[7] The work was donated to the MoMA by the Singer sewing machine company heir, art collector, and philanthropist Stephen Clark.