Hudson Avenue Historic District

Hudson Avenue in Newark, Ohio, is a tree-lined residential street about seven blocks long, stretching from Stevens Street south to the elevated S.R. 37 freeway. It continues North Third Street, which borders Courthouse Square, and has long been regarded as one of the city's finest places to live. Development ran from the early 19th century into the early 20th century. The earliest documented building is a c. 1849 sandstone Greek Revival temple-form house at 166 Hudson, and the latest is a 1940 apartment house. Between them are Italianate, Italian Villa, Queen Anne, Dutch Colonial and Colonial Revival buildings, with single-family homes predominating. Houses sit close together on narrow lots, sidewalks run the full length, and carriage houses remain along the alleys. Several buildings are made of locally manufactured concrete block that imitates stone. A survey of Newark found Hudson Avenue to be the most intact and cohesive collection of late 19th and early 20th century housing in the city, which is why it was listed as a district.