J.F. Hamtramck residence

View of the back of the Hamtramck residence in Detroit, Michigan, with garden in foreground. Windows partially boarded up. Also have print from negative. Stamped on cabinet card back: "Earle, photographer, 258 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich." Typed on label on albumen cabinet card back: "Old Hamtramck house in 1891." Handwritten on albumen cabinet card back: "Hamtramck house, 1891. This house was built in 1802 on property purchased by Colonel Hamtramck. Hamtramck, who came from Quebec, is famous for his service to the American cause during the revolution. He was with Gen. Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and was chosen to be the first American commandant of Detroit. He held this post from the time of the British evacuation on July 11, 1796 until the arrival of General Wayne two months later. Hamtramck again became commandant on the year he erected the house pictured. He died the following year leaving his property to his widow. In 1892, the house, though still standing, was in a dilapidated condition and was soon demolished. It was located on the river bank between what are now Van Dyke and Baldwin Avenues." Recorded in glass negative ledger: "D/Historic houses-Hamtramck."