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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Application Number: 2000-0615-2 Property Location: 218 E. Bartlett Property Owner: Ronald & Patricia Gamble Landmark or District Designation: LHD-RB Rating: S/11 Key Number: STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT Guy D. Staples built this Queen Anne Styled American Four Square house in 1900. Mr. Staples was born in South Bend in 1873 to one of South Bends first pioneer settlers. His grandfather, Ralph Staples II, was the Cities second postmaster and sheriff and his father, Alex Staples, was involved in construction and was responsible for erecting the standpipe on Lincolnway East. Guy Staples was a prominent businessman in South Bend. He started out by managing a grocery store at the corner of William and Western Avenue called "Calamity Corners"; he eventually became the manager of the Indiana Store and Lime Cement Company in 1900. In 1912 he went into partnership with William Hildebrand and formed the Staples -Hildebrand Construction Company, at the same time he owned the Hollingsworth Ice Company. Mr. Staples moved to 1141 North Michigan in 1921 and sold the Bartlett house to C. Seymour Bullock. Mr. Bullock was born in New York in 1867. He held various jobs throughout the United States and Jamaica, ranging from chemical burner to an evangelist. He moved to South Bend in 1920 with his wife Iola after serving as Commander of a Canadian Battalion in World War I, to become the director of the City Recreation Department. Seymour and his wife were extensively involved in youth activities; they established the first Boy and Girl Scout chapters in South Bend and developed a Girl Scout camp at Pleasant Lake, Michigan. In 1926 Mr. Bullock was appointed Assistant Secretary of Community Activities and Boys Work with the International Rotary in Chicago and in 1936 he was also appointed Indiana District Governor. Three years after his appointment Mrs. Bullock passed away. Mr. Bullock remarried a year later to Amy Warner and moved his family to a new location. The house was rented out to Mrs. Minnie Lee Stewart, widow of Arthur Stewart, for the next four years. Mr. Bullock died in 1942 at age 75, he left the house to his wife and children who continued to rent the house out until 1946 when it was sold to a previous renter, William and Margaret Klusmeir. William Klusmeir died in 1949, his wife, Margaret resided in the house by herself for one more year. She sold a %2 interest in the property to Helen Gramm in 1950. The two widows retained ownership until 1961 when they sold the house to Helen's son-in-law