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<br />Chapin Park
<br />- Chaoin Park - East Wavne Street - Edaewater Place -
<br />- Howard Park - Lincolnwav East - Muessei-Drewery Brewery -
<br />- North Saint Joseph Street - River Bend - Riverside Drive -
<br />- Saint Casimir Parish - Sinaer Brothers Manufacturina Comoanv -
<br />- South Michigan Street - Tavlor's Field - West North Shore Drive -
<br />- West Washinaton -
<br />[The Chapin Park Historic District was listed on the National Resister of Historic Places in
<br />1982.]
<br />The district derives its name from Horatio Chapin, a prominent South Bend banker, real estate
<br />investor and religious leader, who purchased this tract of land in 1855. Shortly after his land
<br />purchase, Horatio and his wife Martha built a Gothic Revival home on Navarre Street. They
<br />surrounded the home with an extensive orchard and called the area Chapin Park. Their house
<br />was the only structure in the area for nearly two decades until Horatio Chapin's death in 1871.
<br />At that time his daughter, Mary Chapin Anderson, wife of Judge Andrew Anderson, built a
<br />house at what is now 710 Park Avenue. This house was built facing Lamont Creek and was
<br />later turned to face Park Avenue when the creek was put underground.
<br />Edward Chapin, son of Horatio, platted the western half of the estate and laid out Park Avenue
<br />in 1890. Mary Chapin Anderson platted the area east of Park Avenue shortly afterwards. In
<br />1891, Christopher Fassnacht, owner of South Bend Lumber Company, bought and platted the
<br />southern portion of Edward Chapin's property, which contained the Chapin House. Prominent
<br />residents in addition to Fassnacht who were influential in the growth of South Bend were:
<br />George and Fannie Hodson, lumber manufacturer and builder, A. P. and Ester Stone Sibley,
<br />George and Kate Ware, George Clark, Mary Clark Coquillard, and Mamie Giddings, musician.
<br />Soon the demands of growing South Bend made the area an investor's dream and houses
<br />were built until about 1910, by which time the district had achieved its general appearance.
<br />According to the City of South Bend Historic Sites and Structures Survey, the Chapin Park
<br />Historic District contains the highest concentration of architecturally significant structures to be
<br />found in the city. This is not surprising since many of the city's most prominent business, civic,
<br />and professional leaders resided there at the end of the 19th century and well into the 20th.
<br />With most of its housing stock still intact, the district is notable for the integrity of the building
<br />styles to be found within its boundaries; for the quality of workmanship and architectural detail;
<br />for the integrity of use and scale; and for the quality of its distinctive "street furniture:" red brick
<br />streets, Victorian lamp posts, and lushly wooded lawns, some of which are enclosed with
<br />wrought iron fences. [Since the district was listed on the National Register in 1982, many of
<br />homes east of Lafayette Boulevard on Main Street, Park Lane, Bartlett Street, and Lafayette
<br />Boulevard have either been moved to new locations or demolished. In 2004, the YWCA was
<br />demolished to make way for future expansion of Memorial Hospital.]
<br />The buildings in the district exhibit a continuous evolution in architectural styles from the Gothic
<br />Revival of the 1850s to the Second Empire, Shingle, Queen Anne, and Neo -Jacobean styles of
<br />the last three decades of the nineteenth century. The district also exhibits several lovely
<br />examples of vernacular Gable and Ell, Gable Front, and Folk Victorian cottages. In the first
<br />decade of the twenthieth century the Prairie Style and the American Foursquare entered the
<br />district's landscape to complete its architectural timeline.
<br />-- Excerpts from the,pin P�arkHistoric District National Register Nomination Form, 198
<br />By James Conle , Chairmanark Avenue Neighborhood Historic District Committee.
<br />O Cap�iight 2010
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