People Preserving History ready to welcome community to the Adams Young Hooper House
(Talk of the Town file photo by Jennifer Zartman Romano) Now completed, the Adams Young Hooper House, shown below during the final stages of restoration by the local preservation group People Preserving History, will be opened to the public for viewing on Sunday, November 2 from 2-4 p.m.
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People Preserving History (PPH), a local non-profit organization dedicated to preserving irreplaceable historic landmarks in Whitley County, is hosting an open house for the “Hooper House” located at the corner or Chauncey and Jefferson streets in Columbia City, on Sunday, November 2 from 2- 4 p.m. 
The public is invited to the open house as well as prospective buyers.
If an individual or group cannot attend the open house the Hooper can be seen by appointment. Todd Zeiger of the Indiana Historic Landmarks Foundation will be present to answer inquiries about purchasing and completing the restoration. In addition, members of PPH will be in attendance.
Members of PPH in cooperation with the Indiana Historic Landmarks Foundation chose to restore the Adams Young Hooper House because of its historical significance in the Columbia City Historic District designated in 1987 by the National Register of Historic Places. Hooper built the house in 1855 on Chauncey Street on what was to become the “Silk Stocking Row” where the prominent and wealthy families of Marshalls, Clugstons, the McClellans, the Adamses and the Peabody families once lived.
Hooper was a prominent lawyer and State Senator who died in 1874. He was highly admired and so respected and loved that his early death was regarded as a public calamity according to the Whitley County History by Kaler and Maring.
The Hooper House, built in 1855, is a typical Greek Revival home. It is believed to be one of the first brick homes built in Columbia City. The exterior of the home has been completely restored under the guidance of Paul Hayden of the Indiana Historic Landmarks Foundation. Restoration of the interior of the home is dependent on the purchaser of the historic property.
Light refreshments will be served.