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NPS Form 10.900-e OMB Approvd No. 1074-0018 (8-8o) United States Department of the Interior • National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 2 Dille/Probst House, St. Joseph County, Indiana handicapped access ramp was added to the east facade (photo 2), and a seven -car parking lot was located at the back of the lot. Original Eastlake details are prominently displayed on the exterior. These include the oriental balustrade, turned porch posts and spindled porch frieze on the front porch (photo 5). Other original exterior Eastlake decorations are the incised detail above the windows and the metal string course that has "stylized sunflowers" as the motif (photos 1 and 2). The sunflower motif and balustrade repeat on the interior of the house; another Eastlake trait. All of the window openings, except for one round window at the staircase, are rectangular and, except for the tower and projecting bay windows, have segmental -arch brick lintels and concrete sills. All of the windows are original wood frame and, except for the one round window, have one - over -one double -hung sash. Under most of the segmental -arch brick lintels is the decorative incised wood panel mentioned above (photo 1). A simple boxed wood cornice with built-in gutters runs around the perimeter of the house. Both the front and rear planes of the hipped roof have a hipped dormer. There are two interior chimneys, one projecting out of the flat roof and one projecting up from the southeast corner where the two planes of the hipped roof meet. The front facade of the Dille/Probst house faces north onto Colfax Avenue and features many of the Eastlake details (photo 1). The front porch reaches from the northeast corner of the house to the polygonal tower at the northwest corner of the house (photos 1, 2, and 5). The porch is elevated five steps from the ground with lattice work between new textured concrete block piers. Like many Queen Anne style houses, this porch has turned porch posts, but the oriental balustrade is rare, especially in St. Joseph County. The hipped porch roof shelters the original front wood paneled double doors with glazed transom. The same decorative incised wood panel found over some of the windows is found here over the transom under a segmental -arch brick lintel. The porch roof is framed by a spindled porch frieze. The aforementioned posts, balustrade, doors, window and frieze are all original to the house; the front steps and lattices were replicated. Immediately above the porch roof is the string course that wraps around the main section of the house including the tower. The pressed metal string course reflects the staggered horizontal bar pattern in the porch balustrade, and features stylized sunflowers, a favorite motif used by Charles Eastlake (photos 1, 2 and 4). The two-story tower consists of five rectangular windows each with one -over -one double -hung sash and flat lintels (photos 1 • and 4). Beneath the first story tower windows there are recessed panels with quarter round trim. The second story tower windows are bordered at the bottom by the string