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OMS Aoarov& NO. 1024-0018 <br />WS Form 10-900-a <br />(8-85) <br />UnitedStatesDepartment of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />flationai Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number 6 Page i <br />Mishawaka .-eservoir caretaker's residence St. Joseph Count,/ 1N <br />at least initially, saw the merits of the. house. Its location was a <br />oroblem: the City wanted to demolish it and rejected various solutions <br />involving adaptive reuse on the site. To save it, the house had to be <br />moved. which at first seemed an impossible -task. given the poured <br />concrete floor. Meanwhile. preservation ca-oups had begun a pub! -:L -- <br />campaign to save the caretaker's residence. ultimately resulting in the <br />city's agreement to sell the house with the stipulation that it be moved <br />from the reservoir site. The integrity of the house's setting had to be <br />sacrificed if it was to survive. The preservation qrc--.up Beicrer Heritage <br />curd',va zed, the house, and after considering a number of unfulfilled <br />oor.ioro-, moved the house in 1995 to a vacant lot in a nearby subdivision, <br />only three tenths of a mile from. the original. site. During the leng-thy <br />efforts to save the care -taker's residence. one of the m-oUD'S bowd <br />members became interested in buying the hot -Ise in order to make it 'his <br />nome, and thus it came about. <br />The Mishawaka reservoir caretaker's dwelling is a significant and rare <br />example of WPA construction: that of an individual custodial residence.. <br />Styli--tically it is a typical cottage of the 1930s. and it differs rrcm <br />the few other known WPA custodial cottacres e:-­tant in Indiana, which were <br />all built later. 'Ibe others all were/are on state lands: there are no <br />other custodial residences built by the WPA on municipal property kno'.,Ti <br />in =ndiara. One in Lincoln State Park. built in 1941. has been altered <br />hewnxl recrx:rnlition: -another at Driftwood 'Stage Fish 1latchery was recently <br />Demolished. ;here t <br />..-emains only the custre <br />odian's sidence. which has been <br />d <br />been altered. at Fawn River State Fish Hatchery. a contributing buildiryj <br />to `he historic district of the same name listed in the National Register <br />earlN, in 1997. -hat frame dwelling, which e.xhibits some Cape Cod <br />influence, differs sianificantly from the Mishawaka house. In truth. * the <br />Mishawaka reservoir caretaker'::; dwelling stands alone as a remarkably <br />intact domestic architecture. <br />:example of WPA workmarshio applied to <br />