{"nrhp_refnum":"100007849","name":"Hudson Historic District (Boundary Increase II)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roslyn Ave., Elm, Aurora, Baldwin, Chapel, Church, Division, Hudson, North Main, North Oviatt, Owen, Brown, and West. Prospect Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hudson","county":"Summit County","state":"OH","lat":41.2436,"lon":-81.4419,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"2022-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district centered on the Village Green in Hudson, Summit County, Ohio, covering about 70 acres of houses, churches, schools and commercial buildings mostly from the early to late 1800s, with a clock tower added in 1912.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Hudson is a fine example of early development in the Connecticut Western Reserve, in both architecture and town planning. The Green, ringed by brick commercial buildings and white frame houses, represents the 19th and early 20th centuries. The district is rich in 1820s-1840s buildings in Greek Revival, Federal, Gothic Revival and vernacular styles, and it has ties to Owen Brown and John Brown and to the Porter family of builders.","narrative":"Hudson's historic district surrounds the Village Green in Summit County, Ohio, and takes in about 70 acres of houses, churches, schools and shops. Settled after 1799 by David Hudson and his partners from Connecticut, the town built up most heavily in the 1820s, 1830s and 1840s, and the district keeps many buildings from that period in Greek Revival, Federal, Tuscan, Gothic Revival and plain vernacular styles. Members of the Porter family, including Simeon Porter, designed many early houses and the 1865 Congregational Church. After fires in 1892 and 1911, a village ordinance required fireproof materials, so brick and stone shops now face the Green. The Clock Tower of 1912, a gift from James W. Ellsworth, is a local landmark. The district also holds sites tied to Owen Brown and his son John Brown, and it shows how an early Western Reserve town was laid out and built.","period_of_significance":"1806-1912","architect_builder":"Simeon Porter, Orrin Porter, Lemuel Porter, Henry Hardenberg (Clock Tower), John Corbusier (1907-09 remodeling), Augustus Baldwin, Benjamin Whedon","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Federal, Western Reserve, Tuscan, Gothic Revival, and vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good, altered and partly moved; buildings remain in mixed commercial, residential, religious, museum and government use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.899506-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001542.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100007849/ea891bdd85-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100007849/ea891bdd85-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_street_hudson_oh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_street_hudson_oh.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001542","name":"Hudson Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/hudson-historic-district-73001542/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991593","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Historic_District_(Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5928727"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/summit-county/hudson-historic-district-boundary-increase-ii-100007849/"}