Hodgson Houses Around The World
Connecticut
Lakeville
Camp Sloane YMCA started with 20 Hodgson houses in 1928 and they paid $20,000 for them. Today, there are 6 left due to the efforts and passion of maintaining the houses by Chris Wadsworth, Director of Facilities and Maintenance his contact email: maintenance@campsloane.org.
Camp Sloane YMCA
124 Indian Mountain Rd.
Lakeville, CT 06039
800-545-9367
Maine
Bristol (house is actually in Pemaquid)
608 Old County Road - 1940 Hodgson Home is pristine condition inside and outside. The inside looks like it is right out of one of the Hodgson catalogs; period wallpaper, sconces on the wall, wood trim on the ceilings and an Empress Atlantic cook stove in the kitchen. It's amazing.
Exterior:
Porch:
Interior:
These pictures were taken by Steve Gleason of Warren, ME. His grandfather, Carroll C. Gleason Sr., lived at 10 Meeting House Hill Rd. (formerly 11 Hodgeport Lane). Both his grandfather and father served in WW II. His father was a career Navy man.
Burnt Island
E .F. Hodgson House house on Burnt Island, still stands, although it is uninhabited and in rough shape.
Massachusetts
Dover
170 Dedham Street, Dover, MA
36 Centre Street, Dover, MA - Present and Past
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built by E.F Hodgson., for daughter Geraldine.
1939 - shown on page 2 in 1939 E. F. Hodgson Catalog
45 Centre Street, Dover, MA
47 Centre Street, Dover, MA
131 Centre Street, Dover, MA - For Sale
80 Dedham St, Dover, MA
located near the Sawin Memorial Building - 1930 Shed in the process of being restored.
7/7A Haven Street, Dover, MA
23 Haven Street, Dover, MA
7 Church Street, Dover, MA
19 Church Street, Dover, MA
21 Church Street, Dover, MA - House designed
by Richard Hodgson, E.F.Hodgson's son died 1943.
1 Meeting House Hill Road, Dover, MA
2 Meeting House Hill Road, Dover, MA - Present and Past
1935 - shown from page 28 in 1935 E. F. Hodgson Catalog
3 Meeting House Hill Road, Dover, MA
4 Meeting House Hill Road, Dover, MA
5 Meeting House Hill Road
, Dover, MA
6 Meeting House Hill Road, Dover, MA
8 Meeting House Hill Road, Dover, MA
10 Meeting House Hill Road
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Dover, MA
12 Meeting House Hill Road
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Dover, MA
14 Meeting House Hill Road, Dover, MA
16 Meeting House Hill Road
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Dover, MA
4 Shady Lane. Dover, MA - Hodgson Shed. The shed at 4 Shady Lane, Dover (on page 51 of the 1935 catalog you can see it in our book "Portable and Prefabricated Houses of the Thirties The E.F. Hodgson Company 1935 and 1939 Catalogs Unabridged Reprint"). Harvey Howell is the current owner and is standing in front of the shed on the porch in the second picture. The building was originally put up on the current site of Dover Country Properties located at 4 Walpole Street by Phyllis Draper and used as her office for Draper Real Estate. Apparently Perry who was the developer of the Shady Lane-Tubwreck Road area (in fact mother originally wanted to buy the house behind 4 Shady Lane on Tubwreck) and he evidently got hold of the building and put in on Harvey's house lot. The house is in great shape. l
17
Springdale Avenue, Dover, MA -
Dover Church
office and library
2 Dedham Street, Dover, MA - Original E. F. Hodgson Company Factory Site. The Dover Public Works occupies the site today.
Ernest F. Hodgson began with the manufacture of "PEEP-O-DAY" brooder
houses for hatching and growing baby chicks. The early factory behind the depot
at the railroad tracks looked like this in 1897.
The
Hodgson Portable House Factory eventually grew to be the largest commercial
operation Dover ever had. The buildings extended about six hundred feet behind
the railroad tracks where the Department of Public Works is now. Lumber, siding,
shingles, hardware and other building materials arrived by rail at the New York
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entrance to the factory was through a latticed wooden arch beside the
railroad station. In this photograph takenby Louise Emmons sometime
about 1926, the sign lettersat the top of the arch announce the
"PORTABLE HOUSE EXHIBIT".
View in the factory yard in the 1930's. The water tower pipe and support legs are visible at the left. The Model House Exhibit is beyond the end of the buildings.
The Portable Houses Exhibit area behind the factory buildings covered more than an acre and featured full scale models of the houses. This photograph from the Hodgson House Catalogue was probably taken sometime in the late 1920's.
1 Old Meadow Road
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built by E.F. Hodgson for wife, Florence, last Hodgson House built in town,
1940.
2 Old Meadow Road
4 Old Meadow Road
Click map below to view a Architectural Walking Tour Map of 12 Hodgson Houses, Site of original factory, gravesite of E. F. Hodgson in Dover, MA.
E. F. Hodgson Grave Stone
located in Highland Cemetery on Centre Street, Dover, MA.
Chatham
23 Sears Road, Chatham, MA
Dennis
76
Oliver Dr, East Dennis, MA
Millis
460 Main St., Millis, MA
South Yarmouth (Cape Cod)
63 River Street,
in Bass River, on Cape Cod -1922
Woods Hole
5 Mast Road, Woods Hole
Before and After pictures related to disassembling in August 2005 and reassembling with improvements completed by August of 2007. Incredible transformation. Its like a brand new Hodgson House.
Wareham
52 Circuit Ave, Wareham, MA
Minnesota
Sand Point Lake, Minnesota (swimming distance to the Canadian Border)
The Ingersoll Estate is located within Voyageurs National Park in St. Louis County Minnesota. The property qualifies as a Seasonal Estate according to the registration requirements set forth in the Multiple Property Nomination form for Tourism and Recreational Development in Voyageurs National Park. The property includes the main cabin and boathouse, as well as a caretakers’ cabin, workshop/sauna/icehouse, a privy, generator shed, remnants of a garden, garden elements, stone steps, stone paths, other circulation routes, lights, and the ruins of several buildings. Non-historic resources include a dock, signs, and the ruin of a greenhouse that was built in the 1970s.
Ingersoll’s Island is a 7.58 acre island made up of a large rock outcrop situated in Sand Point Lake, Minnesota. It is located approximately six miles north-northeast of the community of Crane Lake, Minnesota, and less than one-eighth of a mile west of the Canadian border just northwest of Harrison Narrows.[1] The terrain slopes steeply along the north, east, and west sides of the island and includes wooded areas and large rock outcrops. The main cabin is located in the north-central portion of the island, perched approximately 45 feet above the lake atop a large rock outcrop near a steep rocky ridge commanding a dramatic view of the lake and landscape to the east and northeast. Nearby, another cliff overlook is located on the north end of the island. The boathouse, caretakers’ cabin, and other service-related outbuildings are located in the southern portion of the island where the ground gradually tapers to the elevation of the water. Remnants of a garden are situated on a relatively level site near the eastern shore between the service-related area and the main cabin.
Ingersoll found it necessary to keep a utility vehicle on the island to carry luggage and visitors up the steep hill to the main cabin.[2]
Main Cabin
The main building is a prefabricated, panelized, one story, four-bedroom wood frame house. It was manufactured by the E. F. Hodgson Company of Dover, Massachusetts, and erected in 1928. The basic structure forms a rectangle 60'- 1.75" long (along an approximately north-south axis), by 21' 10.25" wide. The front door opens from the south wall onto a screened porch which, at 18' 5.5", is only slightly narrower than the house wall, and is 8' 2.75" deep. A 7' by 11' 10.25" open porch is attached to a side door, which is well to the south of the center of the west wall. The medium-pitched hipped roof peaks at 18 feet.
[1] USGS Map, Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, 1979.
[2] Betty Best, longtime seasonal resident of Crane-Sand Point Lake area, interviewed by telephone by John Hurley, 6/21/94.
If you want more information please contact
Mary Graves
New Hampshire
Dover
Dover Point Cottage, Dover, NH - 500 sq ft "t" shaped hodgson house
Gorham
Pinkham Notch, Gorham, NH - 1930's
New Jersey
Skillman
Skillman, NJ - 1939 - originally was purchased for Elizabeth D Embler,
c/o Raymond Bowers, 180 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ then disassembled and
relocated to the present address in Skillman, NJ
New York
on Canandaigua Lake upstate
House was delivered to Naples, New York by train then to the property by horse In 1927.
Southold, NY - Jo Anne & John Gouveia residence at 55405 Route 48, Southold, NY
Hodgson House was built in the 1930's. All of the floor plans, narrative and pictures provided by Jo Anne & John Gouveia who own the home today. They can be reached at email: jjgouveia@msn.com.
Southold NY Hodgson House Narrative.pdf
Pennsylvania
Lake Wallenpaupack
A cabin that was built around 1929. The original owner was Earl W. Flosdorf.
Vermont
North Hero, Vermont
If you are looking to stay in a authentic Hodgson House, there are 5 cabins (for two) and a housekeeping cottage located in North Hero, VT. In the village, on the water, panoramic views across City Bay from the Islands to Mount Mansfield. North Hero is located in the northwestern corner of the state. It is the most northern island of the beautiful Champlain Islands. It is home of the Rockwell family who produced many steam boat captains for almost one hundred years, including Eli Rockwell, the oldest captain in the world. The drive to North hero is a scenic drive up Route 2 through the islands. You will know when you have arrived in quaint North Hero because the town is just over the drawbridge.
There are beautiful sunsets over the New York Adirondack Mountains on the West Shore and the breathtaking sunrises of the East Shore over the Green Mountains from the center of town.
Cabin number 6 is one of the original older cabins from the 30's, as is the cabin used for storage. The rest were put up in the early 50's. The original cabins were designed to have just a sink and toilet because showers were in a separate "bath house". The original cabins were smaller than the newer ones. There was originally 9 cabins in a row on the hill. They sold two and rearranged the others when they renovated the main house a few years ago.
Aqua Vista - Five sleeping cabins for two.
Address: 3821 US Route 2, North Hero, VT 05474
Telephone: 802-372-6628
Email: heroway@aol.com
West Newbury
West Newbury, VT - 1930 Hodgson Portable Cottage - in process of
being moved
Pictures of the disassembly to relocate house May 2008:
Virginia
Orange, Virginia
BASSETT HOUSE. Tucked away in a secluded corner of
James Madison’s Montpelier is a small cottage, called Bassett House. It
was built in the 1930s for Carroll K. Bassett, Marion duPont Scott’s
accomplished steeplechase jockey and trainer, who was also a talented
sculptor and botanist. The home was a “kit” house, produced by E.F.
Hodgson Co. of Boston, assembled on site, creating a cozy, white,
seven-room clapboard home with a porch and cedar-shingle roof. Later
additions and detailing were designed by the Charlottesville
architectural firm Johnson Craven Gibson. In the 1950s an informal
cottage garden designed by noted landscape architect Charles F. Gillette
was installed adjoining the house.
Also on the grounds is a one-half acre Oriental Garden, designed by
Bassett and Marion Scott with help from Gillette. The landscape is a
remarkable early American adaptation of a Japanese garden. It features
a series of small pools linked by a stream, winding stone paths,
authentic Oriental stone sculpture, and a remarkable variety of mature
Oriental and American plants. Enclosed by several different styles of
wooden fence, the garden offers a peaceful and serene experience. The
Oriental Garden is registered with the Archives of American Gardens at
the Smithsonian. The house, open for the first time during Historic
Garden Week, is currently the residence of the President of Montpelier
Foundation, Mr. Michael C. Quinn, and his wife, Carolyn. Copies of
Gillette’s original designs will be on exhibit.
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/042008/04102008/366459/index_html
Kit house is a hidden treasure at Montpelier Bassett House..pdf
Basset House is located on the back exit road from Madison's House. You will need to go through the main entrance gate to Madison's house and museum and then exit through the back entrance. The back entrance has an electronic gate it can only be accessed for entry by employees but it does open automatically to exit without a key card.
West Virginia
Arthurdale, West Virginia (where 50 homes were built and still exist today)
A non profit corporation, founded in 1985, dedicated to preserving the history of Arthurdale, West Virginia, the First New Deal Community in the United States, created in 1933 and homesteaded in 1934.
Hodgson Houses are located on the Arthurdale website under the heading "Arthurdale in the Past" sub heading "Houses" then click on "Hodgson".
If you are planning on visiting Arthurdale, West Virginia please click on the link of the "Arthurdale WV Self Guided Driving Tour". You will see Hodgson Houses on this tour. The other 1930 map shows all the locations of the Hodgson Homes, Wagner Homes and Stone Homes originally built at Arthurdale.
Arthurdale WV Self Guided Driving Tour.pdf
Arthurdale Map Computer Generated from 1930.pdf
Hodgson House behind the Arthurdale Museum and Giftshop. The owner of this house has offered to donate the house to Arthurdale to be part of the museum and other buildings . The main issue is whether or not Arthurdale can raise the money to restore and maintain.
Remodeled Hodgson House diagonally across the main road to the left from the Arthurdale Museum and Gift Shop.
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