Hopkins Feed and Seed Store

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Location301 E. 3rd St., Texarkana, Arkansas
Coordinates 33°25′32″N94°2′9″W / 33.42556°N 94.03583°W / 33.42556; -94.03583
Arealess than one acre
Built1922 (1922)
Architectural styleEarly Commercial
MPS Historic Buildings of Texarkana, Arkansas, MPS
NRHP reference No. 08000728 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 1, 2008

The Hopkins Feed and Seed Store is a historic commercial building at 301 East 3rd Street in downtown Texarkana, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick building roughly rectangular, with a beveled entrance at the corner of 3rd and South Wood Streets. It was built c. 1922 to be a fancy German car dealership. In the 1930s Roy D Hopkins purchased the building which was Feeder Supply at the time and created Roy D Hopkins Feed and Seed, who operated a feed store and chicken hatchery on the premises. The building currently is a Grill and bar named after Roy D Hopkins, Hopkins Icehouse which has been in operation since 2009. this is the only one of the period to survive on the block. [2]

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The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Hopkins Feed and Seed Store". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-13.

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