Hopkins home, Lexington, Virginia cabinet card, snapshot, and print photos, 1880/1965

Containers:

Box 8, Folder 6

Scope and content:

The photos in the folder are as follows: A cabinet card photo of the Hopkins house with the House Mountain and Reid-White house in the background, circa 1880. A large cabinet card photo of the Hopkins House and the house on the west side, right next to it, by Micahel Miley, Lexington, Virginia, 1885. A 1902 snapshot of the front view of the house, with many trees. An east side view of the house, circa 1930. A print photo of the house at night with lights and a wreath in the window, circa 1930. A copy print photo of a snowy scene of West Nelson Street, Lexington, Virginia, showing the Hopkins home, circa 1950. An instant color photo of the front view of the house in the winter, from across the street, circa 1965.

Biographical / historical:

The Hopkins House in Lexington, Virginia, is a historic residence built circa 1845 on West Nelson Street, part of a land tract purchased by James Hopkins in 1788. It is located next to Hopkins Green, a public urban park that was once part of the estate and was transitioned to the city in 1985. A house located west of the Hopkins House (c. 1845) on West Washington Street in Lexington, Virginia, was demolished in 1947.

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