1111-1113 West 11th Street
Built 1905 |
Style: Colonial Revival
#4 on the Map
Deed: Recorded April 20, 1906. Consideration: $1.00. George B. Hopkins and Rilla Hopkins, husband and wife; and Earl H. Freeman, to Willis G. Hopkins.
The Dr. Wilson B. Paine House/Harbor View Inn Bed and Breakfast
Dr. Paine came to Aberdeen in the late 1800’s from Lynn, Massachusetts, and opened a pharmacy/gift shop in the old Hayes & Hayes Bank building; it was located where the Jack-in-the-Box is today. He later sold this business and opened an insurance and real estate business. Telephone records show that the Paines moved in in 1909. Members of the family occupied the house until 1950. It is owned today by Cindy Lonn and part of the house has been turned into a bed and breakfast.
The house took two years to build due to wet weather and unpaved roads. Its address was the northwest corner of Broadway and Tenth. It was the highest house on the hill. The house had natural gas for lighting and three fireplaces for heating. The first floor of the house had bedrooms and workrooms for the servants. The family lived on the second and third floors. The second floor had a large, formal dining room and a small informal breakfast room, and there were sunrooms on each side of the south ends of the house which helped to heat the house. There were five bedrooms on the third floor. A fire gutted the south side of the house in May 1922. The family rebuilt the house in 1923 as a duplex, so their daughter Winnifred and her husband, Lester O’Day, could reside there.