Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Remembering a Building's Beginning

The county office building at 401 State Street, where the Columbia County Board of Supervisors meets and where the currently beleaguered Board of Elections is headquartered, started its life as Hudson High School. 
Construction of the school building began in 1914, but it wasn't dedicated until January 6, 1916, because on October 12, 1914, when the building was still under construction, the roof and part of the State Street facade collapsed. Here's the headline that appeared in the Hudson Evening Register on that day.

In 2015, in a post called "Hudson's Nightmare Capital Project," Gossips told the story of the catastrophe and the subsequent measures taken to ensure that the building was "perfectly safe and in every way structurally adequate for its intended uses." No picture of the collapsed building accompanied that post.

 Yesterday, while doing research at the Columbia County Historical Society, local historian Paul Barrett came upon this photograph of the building as it appeared on October 12, 1914,  and shared it with Gossips.

Photo: Columbia County Historical Society
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  1. windleJanuary 10, 2020 at 1:59 PM

    Carole do you know the architect’s name ?

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    1. Carole OsterinkJanuary 11, 2020 at 9:14 AM

      All that information is in the article reproduced in the post I linked to https://gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/2015/12/hudsons-nightmare-capital-project.html There it says it was "Architect Towner, of New York."

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