A masonry crew is finishing up repairs this week to the rear wall on a Seventh Street building that collapsed a few months ago.
(Photo by Jennifer P. Brown)
Workers built in a cinder block wall and then began covering the blocks with original exterior bricks from the 1880s building.
“We saved all the bricks we could,” said foreman Joe Myers, who works for DK&L Masonry in Franklin.
The wall that collapsed is near the Hopkinsville Municipal Building and visible from the parking lot of attorney Ben Fletcher’s building on South Main.
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Previously, DK&L completed tuckpointing at the front of two adjoining buildings that owner Ben Wood is restoring on Seventh Street between South Main and South Virginia streets. Tuckpointing is a process of repairing mortar joints in brick walls.
The masonry firm also did brick and mortar restoration work at the former Young Hardware building on Sixth Street, where renovations continue to get the building ready for The Mixer restaurant.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
