In 1871, the home of J. H. Lant occupied the lot at 427 Warren Street.
Eighty years later, in 1951, the building, then a combination of residential units and commercial space, was destroyed by fire.
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Sometime in the 1950s, the building was replaced by single story commercial building. It wasn't constructed to be a police station, but that's what it became sometime in the early 1980s and remained so until 2017, when the Hudson Police Department and the city court moved to their new digs on Union Street.
In the past year, the building was been transformed and is now the location of Finch. At its last meeting, the Historic Preservation Commission granted a certificate of appropriateness to yet another change to the building: the addition of a second floor, into which Finch plans to expand.
The addition of a second floor will be welcomed by many. The building's greater mass will make it more compatible with the 19th-century buildings that surround it and less of an interruption in the street wall than it has been for the past seventy years.
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Bravo!
ReplyDeleteGreat of-the-moment modern design adding to the lexicon of architecture in Hudson.
ReplyDeleteA very welcomed development for that building !
ReplyDeleteThe building was the NY Telephone business office until the city moved HPD which used to be where the Treasurers office is currently in City Hall around 1978-79.
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