470 Hopkins
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Today, the home is a triplex with a new side entrance. The spacious front porch shown in an early photo has long been enclosed and the third floor where Italian families cured sausages is gone, destroyed in a 1970 fire. All of the Victorian decoration on the exterior have disappeared and the structure is now sheathed in smooth pink siding.
Date: December, 2013
Photo by: Kimmy Tanaka
This file appears in: "If These Walls Could Talk"
"If These Walls Could Talk"
While the house at 470 Hopkins Street is not on the National Register, it has a rich history that can help explain the changes over time in the Railroad Island neighborhood. The stories of the people who lived here were discovered by a researcher…