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OMB aoprova/ No. 1024.0018 NPS Form 10.900-a 18.881 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Ational Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page Mishawaka reservoir caretaker's residence St. Joseph County IN NARRATIVE Dt`�S. CR117i ION The Mishawaka reservoir caretaker's residence presently sits on a rise, facing south, about three -tenths of a mile south of its original location next to the city's reservoir, amidst the Mishawaka Hills south of the city. It was necessary to move the house to save it, as it was to be demolished if it had remained on the reservoir site. Next to the house. on the east. is a recently built modest garage (a corner is visible in photo 2) with a driveway leading up to it. A sidewalk runs from the drive to the front door of the house (photo 1), which originally had a small Gabled roof sheltering the stoop. with lattice work on either sire. This was lost in the move, but the current owner plans to restore it. Near the southeast corner of the house stands a curving metal light ooie with a hanging glass globe. which came from and was part of the original • site. The solid brick house is one -and -a -half stories and essentially rectancralar. A gabled bay extends from the north end of the west side of the house (photo 2). There is a three sided bay window on the east -Side (photos 1,3) with metal -framed casements. as are all the windows in the house. All are orictinal. and most even have their original screens. ;The wood frame storm windows still used were constructed by the third occupants of the house. probably in the late 1940x.) North of the bay window embedded in the wall on the east side (see photo 3) is a limestone plague inscribed "Built By Federal Works Fraaress Adminie-cration. 1-9377- 1938." From the gabled roof a fieldstone chimney rises just behind the peak east of. center (see photo 2). The main entrance is centered on the south facade: there is a rear entrance (photo 3) at the east end or the ;��,r'r_h elevation. (Around 1945 the residents of the house corstr_tcted a sheltered entr--way for the rear door: this was lost in the move. and the t:wner irtanrls _o leave the entrance as it i:ad been built c:r:qin+a''V- withou-. a shelter of any So.--_.) The interior of the house _s remarkably intact. All the riai::a: *rim ar:d :ia_mware remain. Threugh. -.i e front door ane enters :ne _ 1✓1: Cn,m. a M" 1.1st hr iC)� _ it G . f _ !- � •end YjP f'y' P�' `:7,d,yi r-av ae .1vJ 1 "eVlca'sl'/ ;s?3 i�nOt'J 1) . ti StairLdaY' -_ Crt9 :eft !west) r rhe _'.mance jealt 'O the attic. now ori'✓i if as 'ver`:' 1a_*Yee b'rrGc.m. orwa= Mr _h) ,T -he -r^!lt dr11*_ 1S a ::aSS-rig. -nt1cT7 to the ;ining room an the Wc _i i tc ,eri on the east. West DT" dining room .a i I Nay • ic1adi1'x_T to the )athrcom 1,n `he right iwith oriainai ub) nl :wo .'_mall :crc.: fls. Beneath the _::ic t4?: ar those leadi: N:i tc, the ful: A.-asement. which '.les below t;,? seven-inch poured '•G;1Ci ze ._ice iv :1 :anich `he ri%l.se, r , h asP t its ori:: inai iocaLi, n rest -S. i'ne hou..e .,a1� .s rail :.�. men in xs well; the orioinal outside- entrance to it remains. on the north erx:: o—r =41t.' east side.