My WebLink
|
Help
|
About
|
Sign Out
Home
Browse
Search
December 1999
sbend
>
Public
>
Historic Preservation
>
Meeting Minutes
>
HPC Meeting Minutes 1999
>
December 1999
Metadata
Thumbnails
Annotations
Entry Properties
Last modified
1/11/2019 1:16:22 PM
Creation date
6/8/2020 10:09:38 AM
Metadata
Fields
Template:
South Bend HPC
HPC Document Type
Minutes
BOLT Control Number
1001401
There are no annotations on this page.
Document management portal powered by Laserfiche WebLink 9 © 1998-2015
Laserfiche.
All rights reserved.
/
60
PDF
Print
Pages to print
Enter page numbers and/or page ranges separated by commas. For example, 1,3,5-12.
After downloading, print the document using a PDF reader (e.g. Adobe Reader).
Show annotations
View images
View plain text
Frank A. Ketchen was born in Canada in 1897, married Marie and had two <br />children. Mr. Ketchen was an insurance broker for most of his life. He <br />eventually retired and moved to Florida in 1958. Frank's brother, Clinton <br />James Ketchen was born in Canada in 1898 and was also an insurance agent. <br />He too moved to Florida in 1960. The Ketchen brothers owned and operated <br />the Dean/Lafayette Building for twenty-one years, selling it in 1965 to Vivian <br />Turk, Orville Denniston and William Hooton. However, Ms. Turk sold her <br />interest in the property to Mr. Denniston and Mr. Hooton three years later. <br />Mr. Denniston was the owner of "Denniston Realty". He and Mr. Hooton <br />owned this structure until 1973 when it was sold to Bruce Gafill Projects Inc., <br />which has been credited with the restoration of the building in the early <br />1980s. This corporation rented portions of the building to various companies <br />including assorted government agencies. They owned the building until 1988 <br />when it was sold to the Trust Corp Bank/ South Bend Land Trust, who sold it <br />in 1994 to the current owner, Schwander @ Company. <br />ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION <br />This is a five story Neoclassical style office building with a rectangular plan and <br />brick foundation. The building boasts brick walls, limestone and terra cotta <br />details, large brick cornice and brick pilaster with terra cotta Ionic capitals. It <br />also has a flat roof, internal chimney, articulated front door with limestone <br />entrance, deeply set glass doors in marble sheathed portico and metal cased <br />leaf door. The windows are double hung, single panes along the first and second <br />floor, all with detailed stone jambs, sills and hoods. The remaining floors have <br />double hung single pane windows with plain terra cotta frames and metal <br />casings. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Based on the Historic Preservation Commission's Local Landmark Criteria's <br />adopted by the Common Council, the building at 115 S. Lafayette has been <br />recommended to the Common Council for designation as a Local Landmark by <br />Historic Preservation Commission. <br />The building meets the criteria in at least three areas: <br />1.) Its embodiment of elements of architectural design, detail, materials, or <br />craftsmanship which represents an architectural characteristic or innovation. <br />2.) Its suitability for preservation. <br />3.) Its identification with the life of a person of historical significance. <br />2 <br />
The URL can be used to link to this page
Your browser does not support the video tag.