Ear to the Ground
Gossips has received word from more than one source that the owner of The Maker is buying the former Hudson Supermarket building at 310 Warren Street, next door to two buildings that are now being transformed into The Maker hotel complex.
The news inspires me to share this still from the 1959 movie Odds Against Tomorrow, showing the supermarket building as the only anomaly in an otherwise intact, although probably then unappreciated, 19th-century streetscape.
Just as a reminder, this is the house that once stood on the site.
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I hope the new owners put another story on the building, it would blend into the streetscape a lot better.
ReplyDeleteIs there any motion on the former Police building on Warren St? That's another example of crappy 50's architecture that would be improved with an additional story.
$1.7M.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the great still shot of Warren St. in the 50's
ReplyDeleteThe comparison you showed actually brought pain to my eyes.
ReplyDeleteAnyone care to explain ... THE MAKER ... project. I for one do not understand it.
ReplyDeleteI certainly appreciate what the early architecture was and how so many are being renovated, renewed. But for many of us, Hy Miller's store (Sam's son) was not an eyesore to the hundreds of families that once occupied the streets. It was more about the loving spirit of the people and less about the building back in the 60's and forward. I loved Hy, and as far as nostalgia for that building, that people now see as an eyesore, my mother's last conscious breath was inside that store. There much more to the history of any building, no matter whom the next owners happen to be or what it looks like from century to forward through the decades and ever forward until all is destroyed once again. Appreciate the history along with the bricks and sidewalks. ~ Frances Drabick
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty sad to see what Hudson has lost. The city doesn't seem to appreciate the treasures it has and had. There is a long history of razing historic and important and beautiful buildings. Now there is an emphasis on affordable housing, which is good. So why tear down old and affordable housing on Green Street to enlarge Stewart's? It makes no sense whatsoever. Hudson surges forward in eliminating the past. SMH
ReplyDeleteThe Historic Preservation Committee needs to rethink the direction it has been headed in these last several years. Way off course, IMHO. But the Stewart's expansion is not the problem. These are neither historic buildings nor are they important to the affordable housing question. BnBs, vacant buildings, and public goodies given to "low income housing" developers who are not low income housing developers == that's where you need to focus your attentions.
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