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CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT APPLICATION — 1999-0507-2 PROPERTY — 1218 East Wayne Street South OX OWNER Edward A. Murphy & Ltatta Pope DESIGNATION — LHD-EWS RATING — Contributing C/9 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE - HISTORIC CONTEXT This one and one-half story Tudor Revival, irregular plan, gable roof home with asphalt shingles with a large front and rear shed dormers having brick below first floor sill line and single and grouped four over one double.hung sashes with molded wood trim, gable entry, brackets, beam stucco and half timbering is located on lot 149 of the Sunnymede first addition. Legal de- scription is Key number 18-6108-3845. According to the Assessors cards, this residence was built in 1925, however, the first res- ident, Myron & Cletis Harmon does not appear in the City Directories until 1928. Whitcomb & Keller had sold the property to IraE. Ruth, who in turn sold it to Charles & Virginia Snotberger in 1928, apparently at the time of the construction of the home. The Snolbergers rented -the property until it was sold in a sheriffs sale to Prudential Insurance Company in 1935. The prop- erty- was vacant between 1935 and 1940 except when Cline T. and Joan R. Tucker resided in the house in 1938, renting it from Prudential. Beginning in 1941 Wilbur E. and Edna Sanders resided in the house. They did not obtain the deed for it until 1944. Wilbur Sanders was a plant engineer for Bendix Products Corpora- tion. Mr. was born in Muncie, Indiana in 1892 and came to South Bend in 1940. He married Edna Parker in 1912; she died in 1944. He then married Velma C. Minor. Mr. Sanders retired as an executive from the Bendix Corporation in -1963 at which time he continued as a consultant for that company until his death in 1968, at the age of 75. His wife, Velma Sanders continued to live in the home until her death which was in 1975. The home was then sold to Judith M. Kroc by the executor of the estate First Bank & Trust. In 1977 the house was then sold to Thomas E. & Beverly Steinke. Mr. Steinke was a lineman for Indiana & Michigan. Electric Company. It is believed that at some point from 1977 to 1985 Mr. & Mrs. Steinke divorced and the wife took possession of the home. She remarried and became Mrs. Steinke-Poale, selling the home in 1985 to Gabriel & Michelle Shakour. Michael was an engineer for Miles. Mr. & Mrs. Shakour resided in the home until 1996 when it was sold to Edward A Murphy.