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College Street #88 - Western Reserve Academy - Hayden Hall
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| Title | College Street #88 - Western Reserve Academy - Hayden Hall |
| Description | The building known as Hayden Hall, which today houses the music department at Western Reserve Academy, was once used as a cheese warehouse, a feed mill, a clubhouse, library, day school and restaurant. This building was built in 1878 as a cheese warehouse for Straight & Son, the successful Hudson-based cheese company of Seymour Straight (1816-1896). After Straight, Civil War veteran Samuel Rideout (1841-1928) used the building for his feed mill business. In 1908 James Ellsworth (1849-1925) remodeled the building to be a clubhouse for the town. The clubhouse served as a local community center and included a billiard room, bowling alley and gym. The clubhouse also featured a small private library, the beginnings of the Hudson Library & Historical Society. The Hudson Country Day School and "The Academy Bell" a restaurant, were occupants in the 1920s and 1930s. The building was named Hayden Hall after former headmaster of Western Reserve Academy Joel Hayden (1888-1950). |
| Date | 1950 |
| Subject | Hudson (Ohio)
Streets and Roads
Photography
Western Reserve Academy
Schools
Private Schools
College Street
Businesses
Libraries
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| Names | Moos, William
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| Contributors | Hudson Library & Historical Society
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| Type | Image
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| Format | 5 in. x 3.5 in. |
| Source | HU_College_WRA_18.jpg |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Houses of Hudson Collection
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| Rights | This material from the picture file is protected by the copyright law. The library makes this picture available for the personal use of the borrower to be used for private study, scholarship or research. Reproduction, alteration or derivative use of this visual image for the purposes other than those listed above without the express written permission of the copyright holder may constitute an infringement of copyright law. |
| Creator | William Moos
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| About the Creator | William Moos (1919-1984) was a painter, architect and beloved arts and crafts teacher. He also directed the art department at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio. Mr. Moos was reared in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and studied architecture at St. John's College and Yale University. He later practiced architecture in New York City and worked as a field engineer and interior designer before coming to the academy in 1945. He was responsible for the design work for the restoration of Western Reserve Academy's Chapel and Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson, Ohio. He had a keen sense of historic preservation of buildings and served as a founding member of the Hudson Heritage Association. Later in life he also served as a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union. |
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