214 West Eighth Street
Built 1900 |
Style: Four Square
#16 on the Map
Deed: Recorded October 9, 1906. Consideration: $600.00. Willis G. Hopkins, a single man, to G.O. Watson.
214 West 8th Street
Willis Hopkins, along with his brother, plotted most of the lots in the Broadway Hill area (8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, J, K, and L). Sam Benn plotted the lots on Broadway.
What little is known about this house is conjecture. Most Likely it was the caretaker’s home for Hiram Ellis’s greenhouses. Later it became known as the A.C. Gaillac house. A.C. sold insurance.