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Photograph of Friend-Hack House
Photograph by Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Friend-Hack House

Built in 1888 (Stick style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Friend-Hack House, also known as the Hack House, was built as a private house, located at 775 County Street in Milan, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, and currently houses the Hack House Museum.”

Wikipedia article Friend-Hack House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Washtenaw County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1888, Stick style.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Friend--Hack House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 775 County St., Milan, 48160
  • When was it listed? April 1991
  • Category. building
  • City. Milan city
  • When was it built? 1888
  • Architectural style. Stick style
  • National Register reference number. 91000441 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Friend-Hack House between 2005 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 808 - 2019
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 707 - 2020
9 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALINE AREA FD 0000924 - 2019
23 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 680 - 2020
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 657 - 2020
2 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 561 - 2019
2 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 1800432 - 2018
9 May 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 363 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Friend-Hack House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Meyer Brothers'Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Paxton PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Storms near this property

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMilan$525,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMilan$65,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMilan$2,000A few large limbs were torn down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMilan-Eight inch diameter tree limbs were reported down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMilan-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down and estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMilan-Two foot diameter trees were reported blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMilan-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-A trained spotter reported a tree blown onto the road.
June 2016HailMilan-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
August 2011HailMilan-no account filed
May 2004HailMilan-no account filed
May 2004HailMilan-no account filed
June 2004HailMilan-no account filed
May 2003HailMilan-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
October 1999HailMilan-no account filed
June 1998HailMilan-no account filed
June 1998HailMilan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washtenaw County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Main Street Historic District0.6 miles1999
Emanuel and Elizabeth Rentschler Farmstead7.8 miles2013
Samuel D. Van Duzer House7.9 miles1985
Joseph Annin House7.9 miles1985
East Michigan Avenue Historic District7.9 miles1985
George R. Lutz House7.9 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000441 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washtenaw CountyAll 87 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.