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C. <br />Leland Avenui!, Lamont Terrace, Chapin Street, East Water Street (LaSalle), <br />South Street, Paris Street, West Jefferson Street, and Walnut Street among <br />others. He was also responsible for the construction of the reservoir at the <br />water works in Leeper Park. By the end of the era of Brick streets in the <br />1920s, Defrees had withdrawn from contracting and restricted his business to <br />the sale of masonry materials and supplies including brick and coal.(25) <br />James Nelson moved to South Bend from New Jersey as a young child with his <br />father Bernard, a mason by trade, " who became one of the leading building <br />contractors of his era. At the age of twenty, James undertook the pursuit of <br />his fathers trade and came to focus his business on the contracting of roads <br />and sewers. In 1907 Timothy Howard reported that Nelson had constructed over <br />ten miles of, paved streets in the city. He also involved himself in real <br />estate and development. He died in 1921. The 1901 publication, South Bend and <br />the Men Who Made It, stated that Nelson laid the -first brick pavement in the <br />city on Main Street south and north from Washington Street, but this is at <br />variance to all other evidence found by this author which indicates the first <br />such pavements to have been installed by Martin Hoban on Jefferson Street from <br />Main to Lafayette. <br />The last major contractor of brick street paving to appear on thescene <br />in South Bend was Harry Barnes of Log . ansport. Barnes continued to contract <br />this type of work into the 1920s.- He died in 1953 at the age of 79.(26) <br />(25) Anderson & Cooley, pp. 184 & 185 <br />Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart & ST. Joseph Counties, <br />Indiana.... Chicago: Godspeed Brothers, 1893, pp. 87 & 88 <br />South Bend Tribune. Ap. 10, 1933 <br />rage -41- <br />