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HISTORIC STRUCTURES CONTINUED 425 W. NORTH SHORE DRIVE This Tudor Revival style house was built in 1927 by Albert A. Fulk. Mr. Fulk was employed at the George Wyman Company until 1894 when he opened a dry goods store on S. Michigan Street. In 1921 he started a wholesale underwear and hosiery business as well as a dairy farm. He and his wife, Bernice Shivley -Fulk, resided at this address until 1959. 433 W. NORTH SHORE DRIVE J I and Susan Cholis constructed this Ranch style se in 1975. The couple resided here until 1985 n the property was sold to Keith Egan, a profes- sor at South Michigan College. Mr. Egan owned the house for three years, selling it in 1988 to Wil- liam Starck, an insurance agent for Starck Insurance Company. HPC Historic Preservation Commission Office Location: 125 S. Lafayette, 1 st Floor Office Mailing Address: 227 West Jefferson Blvd. South Bend IN 46601 Phone: 219- 235 -9798 Fax: 219-235-9578 Email: historic @michiana.org is • WEST NO RTH SHORE LoCAL HISTOR1C DISTRICT • HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION OF SOUTH BEND & ST. JOSEPH COUNTY 2001 NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY West North Shore Local Historic District was desig- nated by ordinance in 1978. Although this collection of residences is primarily a product of the early twentieth century, the land on which the district stands is thought to have been first used by Native Americans as a place to fish and camp and then in 1820 by Pierre Navarre, the area's first non - native resident, for the location of his trading post (the cabin now in Leeper Park). The land was eventually sold to South Bend pioneer, Samuel Leeper, in 1866. Mr. Leeper constructed the first house on this land in 1888 as a wedding present for his son, Samuel Jr. The house is located at 113 W. North Shore Drive. Samuel Leeper Jr. sold the land in 1893 to the Home Improvement Company who plated the property in 1903, calling it the Navarre Place Addition to South Bend. The subdivision quickly became a stylish place for tial homes owned by prominent citizens such as, Judge Thomas Slick; Solon Rider, Vice President Home Im- provement Company and Dr. Edwin Lent, organizer of the South Bend Clinic. The district consists of Queen Anne, Carpenter, Mission, Italian Renaissance, Prairie, Classical, Tudor, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial and Ranch styles of architecture.