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Historic Context The Cole's eventually rented the building to the American Cancer Society as office space and used the second floor for apartments. They sold the property to George and Rosemary Hammershmidt in 1962. Mr. & Mrs. Hammershmidt owned the property for twelve years, during which time the building housed numerous small businesses and government agencies, such as, the St. Joseph County Department of Economic Development. The Hammershmidts sold the structure to Martha Waterhouse in 1974. Mrs. Waterhouse continued to rent the structure out including having it converted into an auto parts warehouse. She retained ownership until 1986 when it was sold to the South Bend Tribune. The Tribune wanted to level the building to allow expansion of their existing facility. In an attempt to save the structure the Tribune offered to donate it and $40,000.00 to anyone willing to move the building. Tim Lykowski, owner of Lykowski House Moving Engineers, excepted the responsibility, he moved the structure from 220 W. LaSalle to 501 W. Colfax in the summer of 1988. Over the past ten years the building has remained vacant. Architectural Description This is a two and a half story Queen Anne style late 19th century commercial building. The structure has a rectangular plan, concrete foundation and a medium pitch hip roof with metal eaves and a front fagade stone lined madallionated pediment with round window and a stone wreath frame. The building has one flush brick chimney with stone string course, a cornice and cap and one central chimney with stone cap and ceramic flue. It also has two gable dormers and walls made of stretcher bond brick with rough faced stone, dressed stone string course, garland and torch stone carved frieze. The building also boasts a very prominent and ornate second floor tower located on the northeast corner of the front fagade. The tower has a cone roof, floral stone carved base, round arch arcade like fagade and garland frieze. The main door has a single leaf panel, glazed glass transom, wood paneled side sections, stone surround and lintel. The structure has three double hung, round, arch —stone fluted column arcade on the second story front fagade, with stone shells, bows and dentiled frieze. It also has -a large three part picture window with transom on the first floor of the front fagade. All of the buildings other windows are either double hung or casements with stone sills. 2