[2] The Hack House hosts small events every so often, such as Ice Cream Social Sunday in the summer.

[3] In the mid-1880s, Professor Henry Friend (or Freund) arrived in New York City, claiming to have invented a process that used electricity to refine sugar.

In early 1889, they discovered that Professor Henry Friend's "process" was a complete fraud, and that no machine existed.

[5] Olive soon remarried, moved to Detroit, and sold the house to her uncle William Henry Hack; she died in 1902.

[8] It is a sprawling two-story structure with a gable roof, with single-story rear and side additions.