1005 North Broadway
Built 1906 |
Style: Federal Revival
#13 on the Map
Deed: Recorded May 7, 1906. Consideration: $1.00. Earl H. Freeman, a single man, to George B. Hopkins.
The Donovan House
The house was built by Willis and George Hopkins. Soon after it was completed, it was purchased by the recently-arrived Donovan family, owners of the Donovan Lumber Company. Mrs. Donovan died around 1912, her daughter Florence lived in the house with her father for many years after. She had no children and the house passed out of the family after Florence’s death in 1971.
Money was no object when the house was built, and the tradition continued. Judge Edwards, while still an attorney, won a large class-action case and enlarged and remodeled the home extensively.