Hotel Portland

This hotel/rooming house (photographed here c. 1905) once stood at the corner of 1st and Warren streets in Hudson.

It was among nearly an entire block of buildings demolished with Urban Renewal funds, administered by then-HCDPA director Bill Loewenstein—to make way for a supermarket, designed by Lew Kremer, which never materialized. Today, the resulting low-slung and generic structure serves as the Hudson branch of COARC. Urban renewal’s offices were across the street in my old place, the Curtiss House, at 32 Warren.