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Key to the Baldwin House changes hands
12/3/2007
The Hudson Community Foundation is one step closer to a permanent home.
  
On December 3, Deborah Hoover, president of The Burton D. Morgan Foundation, turned over the key to the Baldwin House to Hudson Community Foundation leaders.
   
“I thank the Burton Morgan Foundation for this wonderful generosity,” Community Foundation President Jim Hackney said.
    
The Burton D. Morgan Foundation purchased the Baldwin House and an adjoining brick building on Aurora Street in 2005.  The two-building complex had served as the Hudson Library & Historical Center for decades.
    
The buildings were separated and the brick building was renovated for offices for The Burton D. Morgan Foundation, which moved from Akron to Hudson when that building was completed in the fall of 2006. The Morgan Foundation continued to do exterior work on the 1832 Baldwin House through much of this year, including a new roof, new windows – some of the old ones were literally being held in place by paint – and a new porch. The home has been painted pale yellow, shutters put into place and the outside has been landscaped.
    
The frame house – the birth home of Hudson library founder Caroline Baldwin Babcock – is being leased to the Community Foundation for a nominal fee of $100 a year.
    
“Several years ago, we envisioned a concentration of philanthropic activities on this corner in Hudson, and it has now become a reality,” Hoover said.
    
Hackney said the Hudson Community Foundation will now begin interior renovations on the building, which will include electrical and heating work. The Community Foundation is planning to ask Hudson residents to help with the cost of the interior renovations.
   
The Hudson Community Foundation hopes to make space in the Baldwin House available to other non-profit organizations serving Hudson.
   
“We envision a synergistic relationship between the foundations and look forward to working together in the future,” Hoover said.
   
The Community Foundation was established in 2000 and has assets of nearly $3 million, according to Hackney. It has been using space available around town, most recently occupying an office on Georgetown Road.
   
Hackney said he hopes the Hudson Community Foundation can be ready to move into its first permanent home by spring.







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