diff --git a/docs/building-with-maven.md b/docs/building-with-maven.md
index 8b44535d82404..07415ea576ac3 100644
--- a/docs/building-with-maven.md
+++ b/docs/building-with-maven.md
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ Because HDFS is not protocol-compatible across versions, if you want to read fro
   </thead>
   <tbody>
     <tr><td>0.23.x</td><td>hadoop-0.23</td></tr>
-    <tr><td>1.x to 2.1.x</td><td>(none)</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>1.x</td><td>hadoop-1</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>2.0.x to 2.1.x</td><td>(none)</td></tr>
     <tr><td>2.2.x</td><td>hadoop-2.2</td></tr>
     <tr><td>2.3.x</td><td>hadoop-2.3</td></tr>
     <tr><td>2.4.x</td><td>hadoop-2.4</td></tr>
diff --git a/make-distribution.sh b/make-distribution.sh
index 1c89027d68bed..ff8f402156645 100755
--- a/make-distribution.sh
+++ b/make-distribution.sh
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ if [[ "$SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION" =~ ^0\.23\. ]]; then BUILD_COMMAND="$BUILD_COMMAND
 if [[ "$SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION" =~ ^2\.2\. ]]; then BUILD_COMMAND="$BUILD_COMMAND -Phadoop-2.2"; fi
 if [[ "$SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION" =~ ^2\.3\. ]]; then BUILD_COMMAND="$BUILD_COMMAND -Phadoop-2.3"; fi
 if [[ "$SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION" =~ ^2\.4\. ]]; then BUILD_COMMAND="$BUILD_COMMAND -Phadoop-2.4"; fi
+if [[ "$SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION" =~ ^1\. ]]; then BUILD_COMMAND="$BUILD_COMMAND -Phadoop-1"; fi
 if [[ "$SPARK_HIVE" == "true" ]]; then BUILD_COMMAND="$BUILD_COMMAND -Phive"; fi
 if [[ "$SPARK_YARN" == "true" ]]; then
   # For hadoop versions 0.23.x to 2.1.x, use the yarn-alpha profile
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 86264d1132ec4..dfc0630b80ab9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -951,6 +951,18 @@
 
     <!-- A series of build profiles where customizations for particular Hadoop releases can be made -->
 
+    <profile>
+      <id>hadoop-1</id>
+      <!-- SPARK-1875: NoClassDefFoundError: StringUtils when building against Hadoop 1 -->
+      <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
+          <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
+          <version>2.4</version>
+        </dependency>
+      </dependencies>
+    </profile>
+
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-0.23</id>
       <!-- SPARK-1121: Adds an explicit dependency on Avro to work around a Hadoop 0.23.X issue -->