Historic Preservation

McKown Sheldon House

BUILT c.1871, enlarged and remodeled c.1910

ADDRESS: 67-71 North Fifth Street, Hudson, New York

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AFTER

Between approximately 1835 and 1855, William E. Dodge, a New York City businessman who cofounded in 1833 a metals importing company that later became one of the largest mining operations in the United States, purchased in the city of Hudson large tracts of land north of State Street up to Underhill Pond and from Short Street over to North Sixth Street. He later divided these parcels into small lots that were sold individually. In 1870, Eliza Ann McKown purchased the lot located on the west side of North Fifth Street at the intersection with Prospect Street.