These houses aren’t on the tour because of their beauty (as is obvious with this one), but rather for their historic, cultural, architectural or community significance. I thought the history surrounding a previous owner of this house was interesting.

Anna Etheridge Hooks (1839–1913), Union nurse and one of two women to be awarded the Kearny Cross for courage under fire, lived in this house at 115 6th St. SE after the Civil War. “Gentle Annie,” as she was known to the soldiers of the regiments with which she served, enlisted in the Second Michigan Infantry at the beginning of the war and was at the 1st Battle of Bull Run, Williamsburg and 2nd Bull Run, after which General Kearny gave her a horse to ride so she could carry more medical supplies and get more quickly to wounded men during and after battle. With the Third and Fifth regiments she was at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, where she won fame for her bravery under fire and earned the Kearney Cross “for noble sacrifice and heroic service to the Union Army.” In April 1864 General Grant ordered all women to leave the front, but records show that she was with her regiment in the Wilderness campaign, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. Later she did go to the hospital service at City Point, Virginia but returned to Detroit with her regiment until they were mustered out in July 1865. In 1870 she married Charles Hooks, a war veteran from Connecticut, and in 1873 they bought the house on Sixth St. SE.

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For more information on these historic sites, go to the restoration society’s web page for the walking tour at http://chrs.org/historic-sites-tour-2020/

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Face to face with a juvenile starling, posted earlier: