Hopkins, Judge Henry William and Francesca, House

The story

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The Hopkins, Judge Henry William and Francesca, House is a house at 229 Remington Ave. in Thomasville, Thomas County, built in 1886 in the Italian Villa and Italianate styles by architect and builder Theodore (Tudor) J. P. Rommerdall.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture, politics and government, and community planning and development. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1886 to 1945, from the house's construction that year to Judge Henry William Hopkins's death there in 1945.

Physical character

Its walls are weatherboard on a brick foundation, with a low-pitched roof over an L-shaped block, a wraparound porch and a two-story octagonal tower in the re-entrant angle. Porches were added between 1886 and 1895 and enlarged by 1912, and in 1928 the tower lost its third story and cupola; a 2011 rehabilitation removed later partitions and repaired the plaster and woodwork for office use.

Historical context

Hopkins served as Thomasville's mayor in 1886, pushed for the bonds that created Paradise Park in 1889, and represented the district in the state senate in 1902 and 1903, where he later wrote a child support bill in 1918. He married Francesca Seward in 1871.