Matching passages and citation notes from our published collection.
Tour stopSchools & Churches4 cited sources
In “Tour stop 15 — history”
The 2026 anniversary book records St. John’s final service on June 24, 2012. The self-guided tour identifies the former church at 508 East Elk Street as a private residence in its 2026 account. The building’s continued existence should not be confused with a continuing congregation or a public museum. Notes: The July 14, 1955 original newspaper reports future move preparations at the July 10 meeting, conflicting with treating December 1954 as a completed move. The precise transport day is still unverified; the 1976 photograph’s1955 label does not supply that day. Do not confuse this congregation with St. John’s Ridgeley near Scribner, which has a separate archive and history. The St. Paul’s of Winslow considered in the 1950s merger discussion is not rural St. Paul’s at County Road E. Private residential use is the tour’s 2026 description; the tour is not permission to enter or approach private grounds.
Researched storyMain Street & Business9 cited sources
The name Brickyard Hill remembers work that has largely disappeared from view. Where the self-guided tour now points to a house and a residential subdivision, Hooper once had clay pits, drying sheds, kilns and a rail connection for shipping finished brick. The photographs preserve the workers as well as the buildings: men standing behind loaded carts, with the company’s name written across the picture.
Researched storyPeople & Families5 cited sources
The house at 302 North Nebraska Street has two named chapters in Hooper’s self-guided tour. The Historical Committee says it was built in 1934 for Ernest M. and Marguerite Luther and sold in 1969 to Dr. William G. and Mona M. Heusel. Those names lead beyond a property transaction to local clubs, veterans’ service and family medicine.
Researched storyMain Street & Business11 cited sources
The 2026 self-guided tour identifies it at 103 West Howard Street. Its history reaches from railroad travel in the nineteenth century to a family restaurant and bar in the twentieth, with several changes of ownership and one short-lived name that might surprise people who remember only the Inn: the Peppermint Steakhouse.
Researched storySchools & Churches17 cited sources
In “Coming together as Redeemer”
The old Grace property continued to change under its new congregation. The self-guided tour dates a parsonage south of the church to 1960 and describes a passage linking the two basements. Those improvements came after the merger: they belong to Redeemer’s years at the former Grace site.
Researched storySchools & Churches123 cited sources
In “1875–1909: classrooms, a school hill and a fire”
The school sites remain part of Hooper’s self-guided history tour. The hilltop site and the later Maple and Park school grounds represent different stages of the story.
Tour stopVisiting Hooper1 cited sources
In “Tour stop 18”
The tour assigns an 1887 construction date to this house and illustrates it with a photograph. No builder, original owner or additional chronology appears in the short entry. Notes: The 1887 date is attributed to the tour. Similar dates on property-listing websites do not substitute for an original building or tax record. Still to establish: Who commissioned or constructed the house? Do the earliest parcel records or photographs identify its original appearance and occupants?
Tour stopVisiting Hooper1 cited sources
In “Tour stop 11”
The booklet identifies the house at 109 South Myrtle Street as an 1890 building and supplies a photograph. It does not name an original owner or provide a longer history for this stop. Notes: The construction year is the tour’s date; it has not yet been checked against an original property or building record. Still to establish: Who built and first occupied this house? Can older photographs establish which porch and gable details are original?
Tour stopVisiting Hooper1 cited sources
In “Tour stop 5”
The tour dates this house to 1890 and reports a 1949 sale price of $3,750. It also describes the underlying land as first platted in 1870 and changing hands more than 20 times during the next three decades. Notes: The land history, construction date and 1949 price are the tour’s account; the underlying deed chain has not yet been examined. The 1870 land date is not a construction date for the present house. Still to establish: What legal parcel and original plat does the 1870 reference describe? Who owned and built the house in 1890? What do the original 1949 deed and earlier transfers establish?
Tour stopVisiting Hooper9 cited sources
In “Tour stop 8 — history”
The tour and the development’s website identify Brickyard Hill with the former brick-storage yard. Their similar wording may reflect a shared account. The exact historical boundaries of the storage yard have not been established from a surveyed plan in this research. Notes: The guide’s claim that this was Hooper’s main nineteenth-century industry is not supported by comparative employment or production data located so far. The house, the storage area and the successive brickmaking businesses should not be treated as one fully documented parcel or company.
Tour stopVisiting Hooper7 cited sources
In “Tour stop 7”
The tour names this building the Brickyard House and dates it to 1876. Its entry places a photograph of the house beside a historical view of the brickworks, linking the stop visually with Hooper’s brickmaking history without giving a detailed ownership account. Notes: The construction date is attributed to the 2026 tour. No deed chain or contemporary address record has yet connected this house to a named brickmaker; it is not identified here as a manager’s house or workers’ housing.
Tour stopVisiting Hooper5 cited sources
In “Tour stop 2”
The tour identifies this as a house built for Ernest M. and Marguerite Luther in 1934. It records a 1969 sale to Dr. William G. and Mona M. Heusel, connecting the property with two named chapters in Hooper’s residential history. Notes: The 1969 house purchase is distinct from the Heusels’ arrival in Hooper in 1962. The 1936 club meeting is associated with the Luther household, but its street address remains unverified. The 2026 Heusel biography and the 2022 obituary substantially overlap; they should not be counted as independent corroboration. Still to establish: Can the 1934 construction record and 1969 deed independently confirm the tour dates? Do club minutes, contemporary newspapers or a 1936 directory identify the meeting address?
Tour stopSchools & Churches7 cited sources
In “Tour stop 4”
A congregation that began in Hooper’s depot eventually joined two rural churches as Faith United Methodist. The Maple Street property preserves another chapter: the 1980 replacement building now houses Spirit of Peace. Notes: The guide’s 1969 shorthand should not erase the Winslow congregation’s separate 1968 union with Hooper. Parsonage dates differ: 1891 in the centennial book, 1892 in the tour. The 1892 conference account supports existence by that reporting period. The exact legal closure date of Faith and sale-deed details were not independently established. Do not infer disaffiliation or a particular reason for closure. The 1976 Methodist section’s 1870 Presbyterian-building date conflicts with Joel Warner’s 1880 dedication account; the expansion does not repeat the 1870 date. The 2026 book and tour overlap substantially; repetition between them is not independent confirmation. The January 1908 report calls the other temporary church school German Lutheran, without naming its congregation; this record does not assign it to Zion or St. John’s.
Tour stopSchools & Churches4 cited sources
In “Tour stop 19”
Grace began with English-language Sunday school and worship at City Hall in 1915. Its Spring and Elk church later housed the newly united Redeemer congregation; a 1960 parsonage and connecting passage belong to that later chapter. Notes: The petition of fifty-three people, sixty early Sunday-school children and the 1921 counts describe different groups and dates. The 1916 construction price and later property valuation must remain distinct. The 1960 parsonage was built after the 1958 merger; avoid calling it evidence that Grace continued independently. The tour’s residential-use statements are its 2026 description, not a survey of surviving historic fabric. The April 1915 newspaper invitation is known here through the centennial transcription; the original newspaper issue was not inspected in this pass.
Tour stopSchools & Churches11 cited sources
In “Tour stop 3”
The school grounds at Maple and Park held two distinct major school buildings: the replacement dedicated in 1909 and the adjoining high school opened in 1924. Later elementary use ended with the fall 2012 move to Logan View. Notes: The July 2, 1908 newspaper excerpt says the vote occurred on Monday. The report date is not itself the vote date; do not call it a July 2 election or assume a July Monday. Foust’s 2026 account begins Hooper High occupancy in 1922, while the older detailed account and tour give 1923 cornerstone and 1924 opening. Logan View campus dates remain in conflict: August 30, 1971 in the 1976 book versus September 8, 1970 in Foust’s 2026 contribution. Preparing the former high school for elementary use in 1970 does not by itself settle the new-campus date. The 1970 demolition photo concerns the former grade-school building, not the later high-school building that served elementary pupils through 2012. The housing-development description is explicitly from the 2026 tour, not an independently verified current construction report. Newspaper school-dismissal and temporary-classroom notices describe announced arrangements, not independently verified attendance at every event. The 34 boys in 1954 attended a basketball meeting; this is not a final team-roster count.
