The title of this post is borrowed from the 1994 book by Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built.
The buildings in Hudson have long and often varied histories--few so varied as that of 29 North Third Street.
In 1905, it was a grocery store--a "cash market"--one of two locations of Waltermire & Whiteman. (The second location was at Columbia Street and Park Place.) Given the design of the building, it's likely it didn't start out as a commercial space.
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| Photo: Illustrated Hudson, N.Y., 1905 |
At some point, the building was divided up into rental apartments, and it remained so for quite a while. During that time. the condition of the building deteriorated. This is how the building appeared in 2012.
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It's too bad the entrance door and the size and placement of the windows couldn't have been returned to what they likely were at the beginning.
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This is quite an amazing story, Carole. And I would add the current context here -- that the new Mosque, in finishing stages, is right next door. Do you have any pics of old buildings to the left or right?
ReplyDeleteSadly, no. Early pictures of buildings not located on Warren Street are rare. I have this picture only because, as one of the locations of Watermire & Whiteman, it appeared in the 1905 booklet "Illustrated Hudson, N.Y."
DeleteOne of the bldg. next door was Nabozny Press. The business moved to the 500 block of Warren in the 1970s.
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