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160 Hudson Place




  • Completed in 1999 on Lot 382 in Tract 8320
  • Original commissioner: Robert H. Ahmanson
  • Architect: Craig Edwards
  • The current 160 Hudson Place replaced an earlier house built in 1950 closer to the corner and facing Hudson Place rather than West Second Street, as the current dwelling is situated. A permit for a foundation for a two-story, 12-room residence on Lot 382 in Tract 8320 was issued by the Department of Building and Safety to retired mining engineer and real estate operator Robert Nym Park Sr. of 250 South June Street on November 20, 1945. The house was not built. A notation on the foundation permit signed by the contractor reads "I agree to demolish & remove all portions of the foundation which, after checking by the engineers of the Dept. of Bldg & Safety, are found not to conform to the requirements of the Bldg. Code...." It is unclear as to whether this was a boilerplate notation or if the foundation was demolished completely, or if it, or portions of it, might have remained on which the 1950 building rose. A permit for that two-story, eight-room house (with attached garage) facing Hudson Place was issued to real estate operator Edwin Victor Fallgren, recently of 508 Rimpau Boulevard, on May 15, 1950. A demolition permit for it was issued to Do W. and Jin S. Chang on November 21, 1997
  • December 16, 1998, the Department of Building and Safety issued Robert Ahmanson a permit for a new two-story, single-family residence on Lot 382 in Tract 8320 at the northeast corner of Hudson Place and a dead-end section of West 2nd Street, the building facing the latter. The new 160 Hudson Place formed an adjunct to 150, which Ahmanson had acquired by 1963 


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