Hopkins House
Chestertown

Adjacent to the Reid house is another of four 18th-century brick houses in this High Street neighborhood known as "Vickers' Park."

General and Senator George Vickers' home once stood less than two blocks away toward the Chester River.

Hopkins House is the most substantial of the four, standing two stories tall and 37'6" across, with a three-bay façade laid in Flemish bond, above a refined molded water table. Earlier, the center-bay entrance had a six panel door with transom above and a molded architrave overlapping the brickwork. Like many 1770s Chestertown houses,there were benches flanking the door. There was a kitchen fireplace in the basement, similar to Houston House on Queen Street (1771).

Edward Hopkins purchased part of Lot No. 63 from Simon Wilmer in 1777 for £25, too little to have included a dwelling. Soon afterwards, Hopkins built this wide house, choosing a central stair hall plan, with interior partitions made of vertical feather-edge paneling, and doors with raised panels that were hung with cast butt hinges.

A mystery within was the discovery of a corner cupboard, once set in the dining room, to block an unused door to the adjoining frame building. When Hopkins' wife Elizabeth died in 1811, many items were purchased by her neighbor and heir, John Palmer. Among items named in her will was "one cupboard appraised at $10," which indicates that the cupboard remained in the house. The Palmer House is to the right, built of stone in 1782, on Lot No. 62.