8373-93 Establishng a Historic landmark 710 North Cushing

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• brother . The brothers were in the grocery business together for at least fifty years with businesses at the above address and also at 312 E. Wayne ( "wholesale fruits") . They also were in business with Charles C. Ward in the 1920s as the Levy-Ward Grocery Company at 401-403 S . St . Joseph ( "wholesale groceries") and 326-33- S . Carroll . [6] In 1942 the Levys sold the house to Marian P . and Dr. Francis A. Turfler. Dr . Turfler was an Osteopath; he received his degree in 1932 from Kendallville College of Osteopathy. He was born in Rensselaer, Indiana in 1905 to a family that ultimately included more than thirty osteopathic physicians . He moved to South Bend in 1935 . He and Marian (Phillips) were married in 1932; the couple had four daughters . Dr. Turfler was elected president of the Northern Indiana Association of Osteopathic Physicians in 1946 and was the president and secretary of American Osteopathic College of Radiology from 1953 to 1976 . [7] The Turflers moved into rural St . Joseph County in the late 1940s and had the house remodeled into two separate apartments . In 1951 the house was sold to Horen Garabedian who moved into one apartment with his mother, Eva , and rented the other . Horen worked for the Studebaker and Studebaker- Packard companies in the 1950s . He also served in the U. S . Army from 1942 to 1945 and was a Disabled Veteran. Horen Garabedian passed away in Fresno , California in 1980; Eva passed away in 1982 . The house remains in the Garabedian family, currently owned by Hazar Garabedian, Horen ' s brother, who worked at Oliver Farm Equipment and for the Oxian Brothers rug business until retirement . [8] F . Holycross March, 1993 Notes 1 . Historic Preservation Commission Resolution No. 3: Historic Landmarks Procedure (July 14, 1975) . 2 . . Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory: Survey Manual for Architectural and Historical Resources (Indianapolis: Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, 1988) : G-3; The Portage Township Assessor Card ( 1932) shows that this structure was built in 1882 (likely wrong, see below) , and that it was "remodeled" in 1924. It also shows W.W. Schneider as the architect; the Sanborn Insurance Map (1917) shows a two story house with a different "footprint" than the present structure, a one and two story barn-like structure and a "crib. " 3 . City of South Bend Summary Report (South Bend: 1982) : 33; South Bend Sites and Structures Resurvey (computer data-base; 1993) . 4 . Plat. Book 3:1, the Agricultural. Society Addition is located on the site where the first county fairgrounds was located on the. Niles Road (now Portage) running northwest out of the city; St . Joseph County Deed Record: 100:450; South Bend City Directories ( 1889-1906) : no structure appears on Cushing until 1896 when Woolman is listed at 826 . From 1898 to 1904 he is listed at 610 Cushing; in 1906 the address. becomes 710. It seems likely that , due to the various address changes occurring during these years as the area developed, these are all the same structure . 5 . Deed Records : 129:89; 145 : 129 . South Bend Tribune (Gish obit . )12-21-34: 2 : 12. Gish was born in Buchanan, Michigan; married to William D. Gish in 1876; two sons , Walter and John. 6 . Tribune (obit ; Louis Levy) 12-15-53: 14; (obit . ; Bessie Levy) 11-10-51 : 10. City Directories.: 1912-1940 . 7 . City Directories: 1943-1950; Tribune: 6-13-46 ; (obit. ; F . Turfler)5-20-84 . 8 . Tribune: (obit . ; H. Garabedian) 2-5-80:34 . City Directories : 1953-1970. 3