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• <br />�J <br />�J <br />LAMONT TERRACE - FORREST AVENUE TO LAFAYETTE <br />BOULEVARD' <br />MATERIAL <br />FOUNDATION <br />DATE OF COMPLETION <br />GUARANTEE <br />NUMBER OF SQUARE YARDS <br />COST PER SQUARE YARD <br />TOTAL COST <br />CONTRACTOR <br />3" x 4" x 9" RED BRICK <br />6" GRAVEL WITH 2" SAND CUSHION <br />AND FILLER <br />27 SEPTEMBER 1897 <br />10 YEARS <br />1,996.40 <br />$ .85 <br />$ 1,698.60 <br />DEFREES & WHITTEN <br />D. B. J. SCHAFER WAS MAYOR DURING 1897. <br />NOTES: LAFAYETTE STREET NORTH TO NAVARRE STREET, THEN WEST ON NAVARRE STREET TO <br />PORTAGE STREET WAS ORIGINALLY PAVED WITH CEDAR BLOCK. THIS TYPE OF BLOCK STREET <br />PAVING WAS LAID IN SOUTH BEND FROM 1890 TO 1892. TOTAL LAID DURING THIS TIME WAS <br />35,107.13 FEET. THIS COMPARED TO 2,250 FEET OF RED CLAY BRICK BEING LAID DURING <br />THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME.' <br />SOURCE. CITY OF SOUTH BEND ANNUAL REPORTS FOR THE YEARS MENTIONED. <br />Original contract was from Forrest Avenue to Park Avenue. After lots were laid out in 1911 the street <br />was extended through to Lafayette Boulevard and paved with brick during 1912 and 1913. <br />7 City of South Bend Map of Sewers & Paved Streets, January 1898, W. H. Rosencrans, City <br />Engineer; City of South Bend Annual Report, 1898. <br />3 <br />