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By Mary Beth Breckenridge
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 11:56 a.m. EDT, Jun 12, 2009
HUDSON: The preservation of Jennifer and Denny Baughman's home started years before they moved in.
It began with the previous owners, J. Neil and Almalee Henderson, who planted dozens of native trees on the property during their 43 years there and took steps to protect the land from development.
Their dedication inspired the Baughmans, who have since worked to restore the home's signature elements while updating the house in a way that respects its heritage.
Next week, they'll welcome the public to see their efforts when the home is part of the Hudson Home and Garden Tour.
The house was built in 1910, making it a mere adolescent compared with Hudson's other landmark homes. With its low profile, horizontal lines and emphasis on craftsmanship, it's rooted in the Prairie School, the architectural movement most often associated with Frank Lloyd Wright.
The home's first owners were Daniel and Katherine Henderson, who were not related to the later owners. Daniel Henderson's father, Thomas, had founded the Henderson Motorcycle Co. with his brother, William, and owned the land on which the house was built, according to the Hudson Historical Society.
The home was constructed on the foundation of the Grissom House, which was built in 1830 and moved about 200 yards southwest in 1909. Eventually the Grissom House was moved again to Owen Brown Street.
Almalee and Neil Henderson bought the Henderson house in 1963 because they wanted the land, Almalee Henderson said from her current home in Berkeley, Calif. One of their sons, however, already had his eye on the place. He'd passed the house with his father, an avid birder, on their way to the Aurora Sanctuary, and from age 9 or 10 he used to say he'd like to live there. ''So eventually he did,'' she said with a chuckle.
At the time the area was rural, and the land behind the house was mostly field, she said. The Hendersons planted a pine grove, built a pond and put in about 100 native trees, her late husband's passion.
Eventually they granted an easement to what is now the Western Reserve Land Conservancy to preserve three acres at the rear of the property. Their aim, Mrs. Henderson said, was ''to preserve a little space of natural area in the midst of all the asphalt that surrounds it now.''
When the Baughmans bought the house in 2006, it had become obscured by overgrown shrubs and was showing its age. They had considered building a Craftsman-style home, but the lure of preserving one was strong for the couple, who had already rehabilitated an 1840s Gothic-style house in Kent. Besides, historical preservation is Denny Baughman's business; he owns Dennis Baughman Co., a construction and old-home consulting firm for which Jennifer Baughman also works.
The Baughmans, with the help of design and construction professionals, spent a year renovating and reconfiguring the house before they moved in. They've since had an addition built to house an office, a garage and a music room.
The work involved reconditioning and replacing the glass in the windows, which had been painted shut. They also restored as much of the original chestnut woodwork as they could keep and reused the birch doors, sanding and glazing them to highlight their patina of age.
When the Baughmans added elements, they tried to keep them true to the home's roots. The kitchen, which they moved to the site of the old dining room, has new cabinets decorated with detailing copied from the original staircase, as well as cabinet doors that repeat the design of the home's windows. The flooring on the first floor is reclaimed wormy chestnut, and the five-panel doors upstairs were found in a salvage shop. The old blond-brick fireplace in the living room got a new surround of black slate, tile and reclaimed lumber, a nod to the home's Japanese architectural influences.
Denny Baughman even replicated the tiger striping on the door hinges, a decorative treatment used in Arts and Crafts homes.
That's not to say the house has been restored to its 1910 appearance. The living-room ceiling, for example, is painted in silver metallic and accented by black picture molding, a color scheme inspired by the room's coffee table. One of the bedrooms has been converted to a den, with glossy back trim and Denny Baughman's prized guitars hanging on the walls.
Perhaps the most striking room is the powder room, with its red lacquer walls and a glass-topped pedestal that holds a bowl sink decorated with cloisonne, an artistic enameling process. The bamboo-design faucet mimics a Japanese water spout in a garden being created by Jennifer Baughman, who in addition to working with her husband has a garden design and maintenance business called Living Colors Gardens.
Outside, the Baughmans swapped the old yellow paint for a more historically appropriate dark gray, which is highlighted by black window casings and green on the window muntins. They added a sunken concrete patio that they plan to eventually stain and border with lacquered panels for privacy.
The Baughmans often get comments from people who say they never noticed the house before their restoration work. Now the couple is happy for the chance to let others to see it.
''When you have a home like this,'' Jennifer Baughman said, ''it's not just yours.''
Mary Beth Breckenridge can be reached at 330-996-3756 or mbrecken@thebeaconjournal.com.
Tour details
The Baughman house will be one of eight stops on the Hudson Garden Club's Home and Garden Tour, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through June 20.
The tour will also feature four other homes with gardens, along with three additional gardens. On tour days, plein air-style painters will be at work throughout Hudson, and a garden shop will be open from noon to 5 p.m. and a tea room from 2 to 5 p.m., both at Hudson Middle School, 77 N. Oviatt St.
Tickets are $15 in advance at the Learned Owl, 204 N. Main St., and Acme Fresh Market, 116 W. Streetsboro Road, both in Hudson. On tour days, tickets may be purchased for $20 on the village green at state routes 91 and 303, at the Garden Shop in Hudson Middle School or after noon at any tour stop.
Information is at 330-653-9092 or http://www.hudsongardenclub.org.
HUDSON: The preservation of Jennifer and Denny Baughman's home started years before they moved in.
It began with the previous owners, J. Neil and Almalee Henderson, who planted dozens of native trees on the property during their 43 years there and took steps to protect the land from development.
Their dedication inspired the Baughmans, who have since worked to restore the home's signature elements while updating the house in a way that respects its heritage.
Next week, they'll welcome the public to see their efforts when the home is part of the Hudson Home and Garden Tour.
The house was built in 1910, making it a mere adolescent compared with Hudson's other landmark homes. With its low profile, horizontal lines and emphasis on craftsmanship, it's rooted in the Prairie School, the architectural movement most often associated with Frank Lloyd Wright.
The home's first owners were Daniel and Katherine Henderson, who were not related to the later owners. Daniel Henderson's father, Thomas, had founded the Henderson Motorcycle Co. with his brother, William, and owned the land on which the house was built, according to the Hudson Historical Society.
The home was constructed on the foundation of the Grissom House, which was built in 1830 and moved about 200 yards southwest in 1909. Eventually the Grissom House was moved again to Owen Brown Street.
Almalee and Neil Henderson bought the Henderson house in 1963 because they wanted the land, Almalee Henderson said from her current home in Berkeley, Calif. One of their sons, however, already had his eye on the place. He'd passed the house with his father, an avid birder, on their way to the Aurora Sanctuary, and from age 9 or 10 he used to say he'd like to live there. ''So eventually he did,'' she said with a chuckle.
At the time the area was rural, and the land behind the house was mostly field, she said. The Hendersons planted a pine grove, built a pond and put in about 100 native trees, her late husband's passion.
Eventually they granted an easement to what is now the Western Reserve Land Conservancy to preserve three acres at the rear of the property. Their aim, Mrs. Henderson said, was ''to preserve a little space of natural area in the midst of all the asphalt that surrounds it now.''
When the Baughmans bought the house in 2006, it had become obscured by overgrown shrubs and was showing its age. They had considered building a Craftsman-style home, but the lure of preserving one was strong for the couple, who had already rehabilitated an 1840s Gothic-style house in Kent. Besides, historical preservation is Denny Baughman's business; he owns Dennis Baughman Co., a construction and old-home consulting firm for which Jennifer Baughman also works.
The Baughmans, with the help of design and construction professionals, spent a year renovating and reconfiguring the house before they moved in. They've since had an addition built to house an office, a garage and a music room.
The work involved reconditioning and replacing the glass in the windows, which had been painted shut. They also restored as much of the original chestnut woodwork as they could keep and reused the birch doors, sanding and glazing them to highlight their patina of age.
When the Baughmans added elements, they tried to keep them true to the home's roots. The kitchen, which they moved to the site of the old dining room, has new cabinets decorated with detailing copied from the original staircase, as well as cabinet doors that repeat the design of the home's windows. The flooring on the first floor is reclaimed wormy chestnut, and the five-panel doors upstairs were found in a salvage shop. The old blond-brick fireplace in the living room got a new surround of black slate, tile and reclaimed lumber, a nod to the home's Japanese architectural influences.
Denny Baughman even replicated the tiger striping on the door hinges, a decorative treatment used in Arts and Crafts homes.
That's not to say the house has been restored to its 1910 appearance. The living-room ceiling, for example, is painted in silver metallic and accented by black picture molding, a color scheme inspired by the room's coffee table. One of the bedrooms has been converted to a den, with glossy back trim and Denny Baughman's prized guitars hanging on the walls.
Perhaps the most striking room is the powder room, with its red lacquer walls and a glass-topped pedestal that holds a bowl sink decorated with cloisonne, an artistic enameling process. The bamboo-design faucet mimics a Japanese water spout in a garden being created by Jennifer Baughman, who in addition to working with her husband has a garden design and maintenance business called Living Colors Gardens.
Outside, the Baughmans swapped the old yellow paint for a more historically appropriate dark gray, which is highlighted by black window casings and green on the window muntins. They added a sunken concrete patio that they plan to eventually stain and border with lacquered panels for privacy.
The Baughmans often get comments from people who say they never noticed the house before their restoration work. Now the couple is happy for the chance to let others to see it.
''When you have a home like this,'' Jennifer Baughman said, ''it's not just yours.''
Mary Beth Breckenridge can be reached at 330-996-3756 or mbrecken@thebeaconjournal.com.
Tour details
The Baughman house will be one of eight stops on the Hudson Garden Club's Home and Garden Tour, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through June 20.
The tour will also feature four other homes with gardens, along with three additional gardens. On tour days, plein air-style painters will be at work throughout Hudson, and a garden shop will be open from noon to 5 p.m. and a tea room from 2 to 5 p.m., both at Hudson Middle School, 77 N. Oviatt St.
Tickets are $15 in advance at the Learned Owl, 204 N. Main St., and Acme Fresh Market, 116 W. Streetsboro Road, both in Hudson. On tour days, tickets may be purchased for $20 on the village green at state routes 91 and 303, at the Garden Shop in Hudson Middle School or after noon at any tour stop.
Information is at 330-653-9092 or http://www.hudsongardenclub.org.
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Posted 02:49 PM, 06/12/2009
Great looking house and renovation. Personally would have chosen different pendants over the kitchen bar.
