Main Street downtown, West Street to Bean Creek
The Downtown Hudson Historic District, listed on the National Register, along Main Street (M-34) from West Street east to the Main Street bridge over Bean Creek, with the 1905 Carnegie library at Market and Fayette streets and the city office at 121 N Church Street. Census blocks on this stretch held about 100 homes in 2020, many beside or above storefronts, so ask early how a building with a storefront would be financed.
Tiffin, Jefferson and Buchanan streets
North of downtown between the Bean Creek valley and North Maple Grove Avenue, on Tiffin, Jefferson, Jay and Buchanan streets. One block at the north end of Tiffin Street held about 90 homes in 2020, and the master plan names the north end of Tiffin and the corner of Jefferson and Buchanan among the few places where apartments are allowed. About 135 homes in all. The north side block group shows owner values near $122,600, with a wide margin, and a typical build year of 1944.
Railroad, Willow and West streets
The blocks north of Main between West Street and the creek, out to Water, Cross and Gregory streets near Thompson Field, the football stadium at Tiger Drive and US-127. About 120 homes in 2020. The master plan marks this area for infill and repairs to match the older grid south of Main and lists West and Railroad streets as an apartment site.
Lafayette, Seward and Washington streets
The in-town grid south of Main and west of Church Street, on Lafayette, Seward, Howard, Washington and Cobb streets. The master plan's In-Town Residential area runs from Main Street south to Pleasant Street between Oak and Market streets. With about 170 homes in 2020 it is the largest of the areas on this page. The block group here shows owner values near $95,000, a typical home from 1947, and about four in ten homes built before 1940.
Maple, Center and Division streets on the southwest hill
The southwest corner rises to about 950 feet, and Maple, Center and Division streets drop steeply east toward Bean Creek, per the master plan. Grove, Oak and Pleasant streets run along the crest, with US-127 (Meridian Road) on the west edge. About 115 homes in 2020. Across US-127 the land is Pittsford Township in Hillsdale County, even where the mailing address reads Hudson.
Summit Street and the South Church Street parks
Around the William G. Thompson House Museum, an 1891 Queen Anne house at 101 Summit Street on the National Register, with Thompson Park and Memorial Park on South Church Street at the southern city limits and the Thompson Trail linking them to the Bean Creek Trail. Only about 30 homes in 2020.
Hill Street and the east side above the creek
East of Bean Creek on both sides of East Main Street, on Hill, Wilcox, Lincoln, Joppa and North Wood streets up toward Jefferson Street and North Maple Grove Avenue. About 150 homes in 2020. Most of it falls in a block group where only about half of the homes are inside the city, with owner values near $176,000 and a very wide margin, so the parcel record tells you more than the Census here. The Findlay Trail crosses the east side.
Webster Park and the Wood Street woods
Webster Park at Madison and State streets sits on a bluff about 30 to 40 feet above the Bean Creek fields. To the southeast, School, Spring and South Wood streets lead into the city's wooded edge, where the master plan describes large lots in a rural setting inside the city line. About 80 homes in 2020. The Garrison Drain runs through this side of town.
Maple Grove Avenue, Lincoln School and Will Carleton Park
The north end of town along North Maple Grove Avenue: Lincoln Elementary, the middle and high school on a bluff about 940 feet up, Maple Grove Cemetery, and Will Carleton Park on Cadmus Road with three shelters and two ball fields. Homes cluster near McClellan Street and Meadowbrook and Brookview drives, about 60 in 2020. Wetlands lie near the high school, and open fields east of it separate the homes from the industrial park.
