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12T E 619633 N 5213748

The second of the Hopkins family's grocery stores on the block, this one stands beside and immediately east of the original.

William H. and Roy A. Hopkins began their grocery business next door in a one storey sandstone building constructed in 1900 by their father Archibald Hopkins, attaining a reputation for quality of both produce and service. Plans were completed for a new building in May of 1909, with construction beginning shortly thereafter.

To increase the building's income, the Hopkins Brothers built a second floor on their second grocery store, opening the Modern Rooming House there. Newspaper articles of the day indicated that the parlour of the rooming house was often used to perform marriages, apparently young ladies living in the rooming house getting hitched there.

This is one of dozens of newspaper ads placed by the store after the construction of this building, this one from Page 5 of the February 22, 1910 issue of the Fergus County Democrat.

Hopkins Block

In 1909, W. H. Hopkins purchased the lot next to his small Hopkins Bros. Grocery Store. The store was originally built by his father, Archibald Hopkins, in 1900. Hopkins Bros. Co., then incorporated with William H. Hopkins, Roy A. Hopkins and Frank Marble as stockholders. They built the larger facility at 113/115 West Main Street.

Nearly two million acres in available public land had been settled on by homesteaders in the period from 1900-1908 in the Lewistown District. Lewistown businesses, which provided supplies and services for this great influx, did a "land office business".

In addition to an enlarged grocery store, the new Hopkins block also housed the Modern Rooming House on the second floor, with Mack 0. Chester, Manager.
From the NRHP Nomination Form, Site# 128