320 Hudson Street

The corner of Hudson Street and Plymouth Avenue has been occupied since the 1850s when the 90' x 116.5' lot served as the location of a brick manse built by Charles Lamphier.

In the late 1880s, the house was torn down and architect-builder father-and-son team of Richard and William Caudell constructed four houses on the former site of the manse at 11 Plymouth Avenue and 314, 318 & 320 Hudson Street and subdivided the lot for individual re-sale.

The Caudell family was one of the foundational members of the Plymouth Methodist Episcopal Church, located two blocks to the north. So it was not surprising that Lucien Munsell was 320 Hudson Street’s first resident, a business man and Sunday School teacher at the Plymouth Methodist Church.

After nearly a century after it was built, 320 Hudson Street was lost to a fire. Because the original 1850 manse’s lot dimensions formed a perfect rectangle, 320 Hudson Street’s lot was combined with 11 Plymouth Avenue and a garage was built, circa 1980, with cedar wood shingles.

Although the lots at 314, 318 and 320 Hudson Street are included in the Allentown Historic Preservation District listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 11 Plymouth Avenue was not. However, the house was made a local landmark in 2003 so that all the houses built on the lot are under the protection of the Buffalo Preservation Board.