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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Application Number: Property Location: 1999-1029 701 Riverside Drive Property Owner: Julia DesLauriers Landmark or District Designation: LHD-RSD Rating: C/9 Key Number: Survey Number: 141-597-46354 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT This house was constructed in 1895 by developers, Whitcomb and Hammond, as rental property. They sold the house to William Mack in 1907 for $3,800.00. Mr. Mack and his family owned the house for eight years, during which time they also used it as a rental. The Mack family sold the house in 1915 to Edward A. Mechling, who sold it three years later to Frank O. Camp. Mr. Camp rented the house out for two years, selling it to Albert Leopold in 1920. Mr. Leopold sold the house that same year to Burton Oliver. Mr. & Mrs. Oliver were the first owners to actually reside in this house, living there until 1944. Mr. Oliver was the vice president and manager of Oakland Motor Sales Company. Mrs. Oliver was a teacher in the South Bend Public School system. In 1944 the couple moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Mrs. Oliver had been offered a teaching job at Western Michigan University. When they left they rented the house to Irving G. Albert, a mail clerk. Mr. & Mrs. Oliver rented the house to the Albert's until 1952 when they finally sold the property to them. Mr. & Mrs. Albert only resided there for three more years, selling it to Barbara Sylvester in 1955. Mrs. Sylvester owned the house for twenty-seven years, selling it to her son, Mark in 1982. Mark Sylvester resided in this house intermittently throughout the next ten years, eventually selling it to Peter Schilling, who sold the house to the current owner, Julia DesLauriers in 1996.