Red House (Seneca: Jóë́’hesta’) is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.

Locals have expressed skepticism about claims that the house was haunted by members of the Frecks family (the Internet rumor claimed a number of the wealthy family's members died in an affair that involved fraternal adultery, exile, suicides, and the mysterious death of the family patriarch) has any historical basis,[3] and a 1965 description of Red House's name origin lists the original owner of the house as being "unknown.

[3] A 1953 column in The Bradford Era made note of a legend that the house was originally owned by a native American at the time logging began in the area;[6] a variant of the story, printed in another newspaper in 1962 and reprinted in 1972, states that only the door of the house was painted red.

Beginning in 1967, coinciding with the construction of the Kinzua Dam, the state began an eminent domain campaign to buy out the remainder of the town; at the time, the path of the Southern Tier Expressway (then "new Route 17," now Interstate 86) was routed directly through the core of the hamlet of Red House, allowing the state to seize and destroy most of the town residents' property.

In 1973, the state tried but failed to claim the remaining privately held land in the town for park expansion.

[8] The eminent domain campaign has mostly gone quiet since the late 1990s; the state still has a standing offer to purchase any property that is either abandoned or put up for sale in the town.

[3][9] A local church was forcibly moved to Jimerson Town; another, a Roman Catholic chapel, remains standing but abandoned.

Mail service from that point to the present day has been handled by a rural free delivery route through the Salamanca post office.

[12][13] William R. Costello, owner of the grocery store and the last postmaster for Red House, would later be reassigned to Limestone.