East End Historic District

East End is a small residential neighborhood of about two dozen wood-frame houses on roughly ten to thirteen acres in Thomasville, Georgia, just east of Paradise Park. Its streets follow a gridiron pattern, with small, uniform lots planted with flowering trees, shrubs, oaks and pines. Young's Female College first developed the land after 1885. In 1894 it was sold to H.W. Hopkins, a local realtor and former mayor, who subdivided it and promoted its improvement. East End is regarded as the city's earliest documented planned residential subdivision. The houses are mostly late Victorian and Craftsman/Bungalow in style, with examples of Plantation Plain and Second Empire design, and most have front porches typical of south Georgia around 1900. Early residents included a carpenter and builder, a city policeman, a bookkeeper who later became sheriff, a railroad storeroom keeper and a house painter. The district was listed for its architecture, its community planning and the local history of its working and middle-class residents.