Redden's Funeral Home

 funeral home, 1850s construction

5-story Italianate funeral home completed in 1851 as a townhouse for dry good merchant James McCreery, along with the next door townhouse at No. 327. They were original built to the same design, three bays wide, and still share the same top three floors, but the lower floors have since been altered. No. 325 is clad in brownstone with the funeral home entrance at street level (with wood-and-stained-glass double-doors and an arched stained-glass window on either side), and a high stoop leading the a entry at the left to the upper floors. A stone cornice runs between the 2nd and 3rd floors. The top floors have brownstone corbelled sills and curved lintels. The roof is crowned by a black Gothic roof cornice with console brackets.

In 1873 the house was purchased by James C. Hoe, with the neighboring house bought by his brother Alfred C. Hoe. James died in 1880, but his family remained in the house. His widow, Temperance, died here in 1894; the heirs retained possession, but by 1900 were leasing the house. In 1903 the family leased No. 325 to Dr. Leroy B. Sherman, and the family finally sold it to him in 1921. Three years after his death in 1932, his widow Fannie sold the house, and in 1947 it became Redden's Funeral Home. In 1958 a conversion resulted in a "smoking room" and chapel in the basement level, two chapels on the parlor floor, and residential space above - a single apartment on the 2nd floor and rented rooms on the upper floors.

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