Monday, August 23, 2010
"Desirable Houses in Hudson"
The article published on Friday from a February 1867 issue of The Daily Register made reference to "a large number of splendid and costly residences" recently erected in the city. The same newspaper contained the advertisement reproduced below, offering for sale these houses, then newly constructed on North Fifth Street.
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Later, of course, according to Bruce Hall's book Diamond Street, those buildings became among the most notorious brothels in Hudson's famed red light district.
ReplyDeleteAnd Kevin Walker installed a red light on his three-story house which the new owners have kept in place.
ReplyDeleteJennifer--Was that to commemorate its former status as a brothel? Walker has a similar light fixture on his little Greek Revival house on Willard Place, and Willard Place was never a red light district.
ReplyDelete326 Union has a red light, too--supposedly a former brothel attached to the bar that was on (now) City Hall Pl.
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