{"nrhp_refnum":"89001452","name":"Hudson Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Hudson Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Hudson St., Old Orchard Dr., Aurora St., Oviatt St., Streetsboro St., and College St. to Aurora","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hudson","county":"Summit County","state":"OH","lat":41.24370433650003,"lon":-81.43310430301602,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Hudson Historic District in Hudson, Summit County, Ohio, covering residential streets (Streetsboro, Oviatt, Aurora, Hudson, Chapel and part of North Main) with 150 contributing and 22 noncontributing buildings, dating mostly from the 1820s to the early 1900s.","why_significant":"The area adds neighborhoods built during the railroad-driven expansion of the 1850s, including Day's Addition, which show distinctive architectural styles and local builders' work (Criteria A and C). It also reflects James W. Ellsworth's early 20th-century restoration and community planning of the village.","narrative":"This boundary increase extends Hudson's historic district to several tree-lined residential streets east and north of the village green, including Streetsboro, Oviatt, Aurora and Hudson Streets. It contains 150 contributing buildings, mostly wood-frame houses with sandstone or concrete block foundations, built between about 1826 and the early twentieth century. Styles range from Federal and Greek Revival to Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival, including the Ellsworth estate gatehouse at 250 Aurora Street. The area matters for two reasons. The arrival of the railroad in the 1850s prompted speculative building, notably Henry Noble Day's Day's Addition, and local builders such as Noah Carter and Ransom Sanford shaped the streetscapes. Later, James W. Ellsworth's early twentieth-century restoration and planning helped preserve the older buildings and give the village its cohesive character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Noah Carter, George W. Church, Ransom M. Sanford, Harlow Davis, Orin Porter, J. W. C. Corbusier, James William Thomas","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Colonial Revival, Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently used mostly as single-family dwellings; a few houses have been converted to two-family use, and alterations are described as not harming architectural integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.617164-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/89001452.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001452/ea891bdd85-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001452/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":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986280","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-89001452/"}