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Edgewater Place Historic District <br />521 River Avenue (contributing) American Foursquare <br />Constructed in 1920 by Frank & Glenna Jeffries. Frank owned a real <br />estate, loans & insurance company. They sold the house in 1922 to <br />Abraham I. Simon, owner of Simon & Simon Co., grocery store. <br />524 River Avenue (contributing) Bungalow <br />Built in 1920 by developers Whitcomb & Keller for Albert & <br />Blanche Wallace, who bought the house in 1923. Mr. Wallace was <br />the vice president of the Yellow Cab Company. The Wallaces sold <br />the house in 1925 to Ola Chambers, co-owner of Chambers -Knapp <br />Company, dealers in feed. <br />525 River Avenue (contributing) Craftsman <br />Built in 1922 by Albert & Viola Holycross, co-owners of Holycross <br />& Nye, tire dealers. Their company eventually became a Ford deal- <br />ership which Mr. Holycross & Mr. Nye ran for many years. In the <br />fall of 1940 they teamed up again, this time to build a hotel in <br />Florida. Mr. Holycross only lived in this house until 1927 when he <br />sold it to Ralph Monger. <br />528 River Avenue Craftsman <br />(contributing) Cra <br />g .� <br />Built in 1920 as a rental by developers Whitcomb & Keller who sold <br />it in 1924 to Welby & Maude Miller. Mr. Miller was a salesman for <br />the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank, dealing in investments and <br />securities. They lived in the house until 1930 after which they used <br />it as a rental. <br />532 River Avenue (contributing) American Foursquare <br />Built in 1920 by developers Whitcomb & Keller who sold it to <br />Harriet Keller. Ms. Keller rented the house out until 1927 when she <br />sold it to George Yost, a linotype operator at the South Bend <br />Tribune. Mr. Yost sold the house to his mother, Mary, in 1929. She <br />had been living there since 1923. <br />533 River Avenue (contributing) American Foursquare <br />Built as a rental in 1919 by developers Whitcomb & Keller and sold <br />in 1923 to Arthur C. & Katheryn Decker. Mr. Decker was the owner <br />of Decker's Auto Trim Shop. He and his wife lived there until 1925 <br />when the sold the house to David E. Blackford. Mr. Blackford oper- <br />ated a soft drink parlor with Frank Kagel, at 114 W. Colfax. <br />Page 19 <br />Guidebook <br />