This morning, John Knott, who purchased the building after the Home for the Aged ceased to exist in 2014, sent me this historic photograph of the 1906 addition, with its porches as they were originally.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
A Bit of Gossips Pedantry
Yesterday, I sat through two presentations about the plan to convert 620 Union Street, the former Home for the Aged, into a 50-room hotel, and heard the west wing of the building described as an 1870s addition. It is not. Also, at the Planning Board meeting, the architect for the project said the original house, built in 1835 as the home of Robert and Sally McKinstry, became the Home for the Aged in the 1870s. It did not.
To correct the history, for readers who care about such things, Robert McKinstry died in 1870, predeceased by his wife, Sally, who died in 1862. The McKinstry estate was in dispute for decades after Robert McKinstry's death, and it wasn't until 1895 that the Home for the Aged purchased the house. After improvements were made to ready the house for its new function, it was occupied by the residents of the Home in 1896. The addition to the building was constructed in 1906. Much of this information is found in a history of the Home for the Aged presented by Henry M. James, which appeared in the Hudson Daily Star on December 11, 1939.
This morning, John Knott, who purchased the building after the Home for the Aged ceased to exist in 2014, sent me this historic photograph of the 1906 addition, with its porches as they were originally.
The plans for the proposed hotel would locate a new restaurant space where the original porches once were.
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This morning, John Knott, who purchased the building after the Home for the Aged ceased to exist in 2014, sent me this historic photograph of the 1906 addition, with its porches as they were originally.
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Ugh, there goes what could be a beautiful garden for a beautiful home. A very grandiose plan for that location I would say. Is there still room for parking? For those 50 rooms and various events? There is the Elks Club public parking lot nearby but that is already an event space. The 7th street parking spaces are pretty busy already. Perhaps there is a need for another hotel, perhaps not so large, but Hudson is pretty crowded already, especially on weekends when events presumably would take place?
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