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E.H. Higgins House

1920 establishments in KentuckyAmerican Foursquare architectureHopkinsville, KentuckyHouses completed in 1920Houses in Christian County, Kentucky
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E.H. Higgins House
E.H. Higgins House

The E. H. Higgins House, at 1530 E. 7th St. in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is an American Four Square house built in 1920. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.It was deemed to be a "fine example of the American Four-square style". It is a two-and-a-half-story house built upon a stone foundation. It has a hipped roof with a central dormer and it has a one-story porte-cochere.

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E.H. Higgins House
East 7th Street, Hopkinsville

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East 7th Street 1568
42240 Hopkinsville
Kentucky, United States
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Hopkinsville station
Hopkinsville station

The L & N Railroad Depot in the Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District of Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a historic railroad station on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1892.The year 1832 saw the first of many attempts to woo a railroad to Hopkinsville. This first attempt was to connect Hopkinsville to Eddyville, Kentucky. In 1868 Hopkinsville finally obtained a railroad station, operated by the Evansville, Henderson, & Nashville Railroad. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad acquired the railroad in 1879.The Hopkinsville depot is a single-story frame building with a slate roof. It has six rooms: a Ladies Waiting room (the room closest to the street), a General Waiting Room, a Colored Waiting Room, a baggage room (the furthest room from the street), a ticket office (the only room which connected to all three waiting rooms), and a ladies' restroom. Immediately outsides were warehouses for freight, usually tobacco.Its last long-distance train was the Louisville and Nashville's Georgian, last operating in 1968.During its operating years, the Hopkinsville depot was a popular layover spot for those traveling by train. It was the only Louisville & Nashville station between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee where it was legal to drink alcohol. Hopkinsville got the nickname "Hop town" due to train passengers asking the conductors when they would arrive at Hopkinsville, so they could "hop off and get a drink".The Hopkinsville L & N Railroad Depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1975. It is owned by the City of Hopkinsville and was occupied by the Pennyroyal Arts Council until 2019. That year the council moved out after a fire in an exterior wall and the building was still vacant as of January 2023. The depot's future was uncertain as it requires an estimated $2M USD in structural repairs and those costs are in competition with other city funding priorities.CSX, which bought out the Louisville & Nashville, still run freight trains on the tracks next to the depot.

Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District
Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District

The Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site was first inhabited by the Wood family of Jonesborough, Tennessee. They donated five of their 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) for the creation of a county seat, and in 1799 the site was platted and dubbed Christian Court House. Later in 1799 it was dubbed Elizabeth in honor of the Woods' eldest daughter, but due to the existence of Elizabethtown in Hardin County, in April 1804 the town was named in honor of General Samuel Hopkins.Places in the district that are separately on the National Register include the Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville and the Hopkinsville L & N Railroad Depot. The fountain is now located by the Christian County Courthouse. The Depot brought many passengers to spend time in Hopkinsville, as it was the one place along the railroad between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee where one could consume alcoholic drinks.Other prominent buildings located in the district are the Pennyroyal Area Museum, the First Presbyterian Church, and the Old Fire House and Clock Tower. The Pennyroyal Area Museum, open since July 8, 1976, is in the historic old Hopkinsville post office, and is funded by the local government. The First Presbyterian Church was used as a hospital for General Nathan Bedford Forrest's men during the winter of 1861–1862; they were hospitalized due to a flu epidemic. The Old Fire House is currently the headquarters of the Christian County Historical Society.