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Everareen Hill Property Name NPS Form 10-900 U�__� 10-90) nited States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC _PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 7 Page 1 St. Joseah. Indiana County and State OMB No. 1024-0018 The Evergreen I ll farm is located southwest of South Bend, Indiana. Tlie property encompasses about thirty-eight acres, including a house, four outbuildings, and a cemetery. The house sits atop a small hill surrounded bywoods and has a short driveway flanked on either side by pine trees (Photo 1). The outbuildings are located to the north and west of the house. The cemetery is located west of the house. The forest in front (to the east) of the house contains maple trees that were used in the manufacture of maple sugar and maple syrup on the property. House Exterior The Italianate house is balloon frame construction on a stone foundation (Photo 2). It is covered with tongue -and -groove clapboard siding and an asphalt shingle roof. The low-pitched hipped roof is truncated. The house retains most of its original features, including original windows and wood storm windows, window hoods, paired cornice brackets, and porch trim. The two original front doors were replaced with a smaller door surrounded by a transom and sidelights by previous owner. The current owners plan to reinstall the original doors, which were stored on the property. The basic footprint of I� historic portion (excluding the current addition) of the house is cruciform. A one -and -a -half storykitchen extends to — west of the house. This small portion may be the second house constructed on the property. Features differentiating this construction from the Italianate portion are wider floor planks and a lower ceiling. There is a simple enclosed stair leading to the half story above. Two small rooms we're added to the south side of the kitchen some time between 1873 and. 1918. One of these rooms was used as a bathroom and the other as a pantry. A sunroom was added to the south side of the house around 1918 and an addition is currently being constructed on the west side of the house. The east fagade features the main entry covered by a small porch (Photo 3). Four posts support the porch: two free standing, and two engaged into the east fagade (Photo 4). The porch retains its original trim, including scroll brackets at each corner. The porch has a shallow hipped roof covered with asphalt. There are two windows on the first floor south of the porch. The windows are two over two double -hung, with eight -light wood storm windows set into the window frame (Photo 5). The windows have window hoods supported bytwo small brackets on either side. The eastern facing window is identical in size and detail. The second floor has three evenly spaced windows, and the frieze has decorative wood carvings between the paired brackets (Photo 6). The frieze continues with these details around the entire house. The north projection of the house facing east has two windows, one at the first floor, and one at the second floor (Photo 7). The south projection of the house facing east has a small porch covering a first floor entry. The details of this porch are the same as the main entry porch. There is a second story window above this porch. Extending south from this projection is the sunroom. The sunroom is a one-story addition with six ten -light casement windows_facing east. Pilasters form the southeast and southwest corners of the clapboard sunroom addition. The sunroom foundation is concrete and the shallow hipped roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The south side of the house has two verticallyaligned windows, one at the first floor and one at the second floor. The ff om's south fagade features eight ten -light casement windows (Photo 8). There is a small basement window in the ation wall of the sunroom. A single window is centered in the southern fa§ade of the projection above the sunroom. The south side of the kitchen has two windows: the westernmost opening is the same size as the other windows, and the easternmost opening is the same width, but approximately three-quarters the length of the other windows. The larger window is a twelve -light casement with an eight -light storm covering it. The smaller window is four -light window covered