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STAFF REPORT <br />CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR <br />CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS <br />Application Number: 1999-0701-D <br />Property Location: 520 North St. Joseph Street - South Bend IN 46601 <br />Property Owner: Memorial Hospital <br />Landmark or District Designation: <br />Rating: non -cont. Key Number: <br />Survey Number: none assigned <br />Statement of Significance & Historic Context <br />This house was built in 1904 by Hammond & Whitcomb. Mr. Hammond sold the <br />house to a real estate person by the name of Elihu Mendenhall in September 1904 along with <br />lot number 52 in the Hamond & Whitcomb Addition for six thousand -one -hundred -fifteen - <br />dollars. <br />Mr. Mendenhall then sold the house in December of 1904 to Christian Soens for two - <br />thousand -seven -hundred -dollars. <br />Mr. Soens was born in Wisconsin in 1852 and came to South Bend in 1891 where he <br />married Anna C. Jenniches in 1896. Mr. Soens was a sewer contractor and a brick <br />manufacturer. This house was used by him as a rental. <br />Mr. Soens died in 1934 at the age of 82. His widow died in 1938 while residing in <br />Wisconsin. <br />It is unclear as to how the property or when the property was sold to Edwin P. and <br />Marion Moore, but the Moores did sell the house in 1929 to Dr. Ira T. Hull. <br />Dr, Hull was a South Bend dentist for twenty-five years and he lived in this house <br />until 1950. He did rent out half the house on occasion prior to his relocating to Boonville, <br />Indiana. His niece and her husband Mr. & Mrs. Othal Dows were tenants at the time of his <br />move. <br />The Dows may have been left with the estate following Dr. Hulls death, because they <br />lived in the house the rest of their lives. <br />Page: 1 <br />