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8567-95 Establishig Historic Landmark Building 1601 Kemble Ave
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1/9/1995
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8567-95
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116-94
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The largest part of the building plan is oriented to Kemble Street with a <br /> symmetrically balanced entry facade. The Indiana Avenue side once featured a <br /> commercial storefront toward the rear of the structure which has been filled <br /> in to match the surrounding brick but lacks the terre-cotta detailing. The <br /> windows at street level are multiple sash (three windows per aperture in most <br /> cases presently visible). The section of the building originally occupied by <br /> the bank is articulated with terre-cotta widow hoods and surrounds at each <br /> corner of the occupied area. Intervening windows are enhanced by terre-cotta <br /> squares at the corners of each window and terre-cotta diamonds in the <br /> intervening walls between windows. The second story windows are typically <br /> spaced pairs of double hung sash oriented to center on the window groups <br /> below. These windows were presumably for office or apartment rooms. <br /> The street facades are profusely ornamented with terre-cotta parapet coping, <br /> cornice, stringcourse, window sills, relief panels with foliage motifs placed <br /> above the above mentioned first floor window hoods, and water table. Where the <br /> storefront wall has been filled in, the terre-cotta water table has been <br /> imitated in concrete. The main facade is further decorated with a terre-cotta <br /> relief panel depicting an eagle at the parapet above the main entry and arch <br /> and pilasters surrounding the front doors.[3] <br /> HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT <br /> The Toth State Bank was organized May 2, 1921, with $50,000 of capital.[4][5] <br /> The officers of the bank were: Frank Lassu, President; Toefil Drobny, Vice <br /> President, George Toth, Cashier; Wilma Sabo, Assistant Cashier; and Joseph <br /> Kovacs, Secretary. The Board of Directors was constituted by Frank Lassu, <br /> Toefil Drobny, George Toth, Joseph Kovacs, Steve Gargacz, Steve Toth, and <br /> Ferdinand Miholich. Of these, Lassu, the Toths, and Miholich were all native <br /> Hungarians who had migrated to South Bend between 1900 and 1920. Drobny had <br /> been born in Poland. Gergacz was the only member known to have been born in <br /> South Bend.[6] <br /> George Toth seems to have been the central figure of this group. He arrived in <br /> South Bend in 1919 and married Elizabeth Kovacs who was probably related to <br /> (sister of ?) Joseph Kovacs, an attorney who had migrated from Pennsylvania in <br /> 1912.[7] Toth listed his residence at 602 Chapin. This may have been an <br /> apartment or a commercial location. All that we know about Steven Toth is that <br /> he maintained a restaurant in this same vicinity at 544 Chapin. Toth seems to <br /> have gathered his associates in a large part from this neighborhood. In 1921 <br /> Drobny maintained a Chiropractic practice at 502 Chapin. Gergacz and Miholich <br /> were both proprietors of "buffet lunch" establishments at 810 and 1601 Prairie <br /> Avenue respectively.[8] <br /> In 1921, the year that the bank was formed, there were twelve banks and one <br /> loan company listed in the City Directory. The first location of the bank was <br /> located at the corner of Chapin and Ford Street which would place it at the <br /> 602 Chapin address earlier established as George Toth's residence, directly <br /> across the street from the Oliver Chilled Plow Works.[9] The 1922 publication <br /> South Bend World Famed states that ". . .all the directors are well and <br /> popularly known in banking circles and to the people of all nationalities, <br /> especially among the Hungarian, German, and Slav population of the district, <br /> who took advantage of the banking facilities offered in their respective <br /> neighborhood." <br />
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