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Published: March 1st 2008
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St. Mary's Church
This cathedral like structure, with it's soaring campanile and ornate decoration is a multi-stylisitic late 19th Century creation - part Gothic, part Romanesque, a little bit of everything, known as "American Ecclesiastical Architecture!" A category unto itself The City of Hudson is known for it's architecture. Established in the 1820s as the largest inland whaling port in the US by refugees from Nantucket, it began life as a copy of a New England seaport town. Rumor has it that some of the actual houses first erected were shipped in bundles from from the same mills and housewrights who built most of the old Nantucket houses. The remaining early houses certainly wouldn't be stylistically out of place on Nantucket's streets.
Through the ups and downs of the nearly two centuries of its existence, the City has become home to a multiplicity of architectural styles, leading it to be dubbed "a museum of American Architectural style." Famed Photographer Lynn Davis did a series of architectural portraits of the buildings along the mile long Warren Street (the main thoroughfare of the city). Hudson's history has been detailed in a number of books, including
this profusely illustrated one by local resident Byrne Fone.
It's a fairly compact place - less than three square miles - and home to only about 7,500 residents, making it one of New York State's smallest cities. Yet walking the street and alleys unfolds a
Grace Church Epsocopal
Just a few steps away from the decorative fiesta that is St Mary's, Grace Church is a relatively severe, unostentatious building, but impressive nonetheless. forty or fifty years older than St Mary's, it's dark brown stone flaring buttresses and truncated tower speak to a more down-to-earth, solid and practical approach to the spiritual life. map of life past and present of never ending detail, with the comings and goings of today's life mixing with the constantly emerging detritus of the 19th and early 20th centuries, against a background of landscape and architecture that spans everything from the best of the Federal Period to the worst of 1980s "remodeling!"
Here are a few images of buildings in the City. More will be forthcoming as I continue my travels - to the Stop And Shop and back!
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