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Elbel House <br />806 Leland <br />Historical Context: <br />The Elbe] name was of great importance in South Bend from 1848 when Johann <br />Friedrick Elbel, a 50- year -old musician and tile maker, along with his wife, Anna <br />Susanna, came to South Bend from Arzberg, Germany. In 1854, Johann Elbel built a <br />house at 300 West Marion Street in South Bend, which became the center of the Elbel <br />family's musical tradition. The Elbel family founded the first choral society in South <br />Bend in 1855. By 1867, nine Elbel families were living in the neighborhood around <br />Marion and Lafayette Streets, which had attracted other immigrants from Arzberg, thus <br />garnering the name Little Arzberg. The Elbel Concert Band and Orchestra, featuring <br />Johann and Anna's sons John, Lorenz, Henry and Wolfgang, performed classical music <br />at South Bend venues from 1858 -1918. <br />Lorenz Elbel married Johanna Mainer in 1856, and they had six sons: Henry, Herman, <br />Richard, Robert, Fred, and Louis. All were musically gifted like their father, especially <br />Louis, who composed the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors, which was first <br />performed by John Philip Sousa's Band in 1899. Richard Elbel (1867- 1949), opened a <br />music store in South Bend at 114 North Michigan Street in 1880. His brothers soon <br />joined the venture, naming it Elbel Brothers Music Store. The store remained in <br />business for ninety years. Richard served as president of the business. <br />Richard Elbel, the builder of 8o6 Leland, also served as director of the South Bend <br />Orchestra, and a South Bend Parks Commissioner. Richard Elbel served on the Parks <br />Commission with George M. Platner, W.W. Ridenour and Otis Romine. Elbel was <br />known as the "Dean of South Bend Parks." He was the only charter member of the <br />South Bend Parks Commission to serve continuously until his retirement in 1939. <br />Richard Elbel displayed a love for the development and preservation of green space <br />from early adulthood. He served the city without salary and always insisted on paying <br />his own traveling expenses. He was reappointed by four different mayors from different <br />political parties. In 192o Richard Elbel was elected President of the State Park <br />Association. He was adamant of the need for city planning and in particular for parks <br />and streets. He believed streets should include landscaping and a sensitivity to <br />appearance, thus attaching himself to the landscape and urban parks movements which <br />produced such wonders as Central Park in New York City and Golden Gate Park in San <br />Francisco. He was instrumental in obtaining grants of land 100 -200 feet wide from <br />property owners from Leeper Park northward, providing for the beginnings of what <br />would become the Riverside Drive Parkway. In 1963, South Bend Parks opened Elbel <br />Golf Course, on the extreme northwest edge of South Bend, named in his honor. <br />Richard and his wife, Maude, had two children, verniece and Donald. The house at 8o6 <br />Leland was built in 1894, and the family lived there from 1895 -1903, when the Elbels <br />moved to 605 Portage Avenue in South Bend, staying in the Little Arzberg <br />Neighborhood, some of which is now incorporated in the Chapin Park Neighborhood. <br />
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