{"nrhp_refnum":"03001142","name":"Houses at 37-47 North Fifth St.","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"37-47 N. Fifth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hudson","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.25072807400005,"lon":-73.78533465199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A row of six attached, two-story, three-bay wood frame rowhouses at 37-47 North Fifth Street in Hudson, Columbia County, New York, built about 1869-1871 and listed as a district.","why_significant":"The row is argued to be an intact, representative example of working class residential architecture in Hudson, meeting Criterion C in architecture. It shows typical Italianate features such as bracketed cornices and two-over-two sash. Built as rental flats, it reflects the city's nineteenth-century industrial and commercial importance and the need for inexpensive housing.","narrative":"Six nearly identical, attached wood frame rowhouses stand at 37-47 North Fifth Street in Hudson, New York. Built between 1869 and 1871 by builder Freeman Coons, the row was developed by a family of lumber merchants, the Travers, as an investment in rental housing. Each building is two stories and three bays wide, with a continuous gable roof, bracketed cornices, two-over-two windows and side-hall entries; the corner building at #47 has a wraparound storefront. Census records point to working families, including carpenters and printers, living in the flats. The row is considered significant as an intact example of modest working class housing in a neighborhood on Hudson's north side, where plain two-story frame buildings were typical. It reflects the city's nineteenth-century industry and commerce and the demand for affordable homes. After years of poor maintenance, the buildings were rehabilitated and now serve as apartments and counseling offices, with exteriors largely unchanged.","period_of_significance":"c. 1870","architect_builder":"Coons, Freeman (builder)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Recently rehabilitated; used as apartments and counseling and administrative offices for a substance abuse services agency, with exteriors remaining as built apart from an access ramp.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.879645-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03001142.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001142/e6a31daad1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001142/e6a31daad1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_at_37-47_North_Fifth_Street,_Hudson,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_at_37-47_North_Fifth_Street,_Hudson,_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85003363","name":"Hudson Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/hudson-historic-district-85003363/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317014","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_at_37%E2%80%9347_North_Fifth_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q776304"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/houses-at-37-47-north-fifth-st-03001142/"}