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Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District <br />Page 16 <br />727 Forest Cross Plan/Shingle Style <br />Previously known as 725 Forest, records date this house to 1898. By <br />1912, the address had changed to 727 Forest. For many years, it was <br />an investment property. Residents included: Clyde Roberts (1912), <br />Harry Conrad (1914), Hadley Miller (1916), George Shumaker <br />(1919) and Clyde Kerk (1920). <br />801 Forest American Foursquare <br />John Hunter, owner of 803 Forest in the 1920s, built this house in <br />1922 as an investment property. Hunter worked for the Postal <br />Service and became the South Bend postmaster in 1920. The first <br />residents of this house were Hazel and Carl Wilcox. <br />802 Forest Gabled-T <br />William S. Buck had purchased property in Chapin Place by July <br />1890. By 1891, he had this house built for his wife, Emma and their <br />daughter, Ethel. William held positions with J.W. Parks and <br />Urquhart & Buck. Ethel inherited the house and resided here into <br />the 1950s. <br />803 Forest Stick Style <br />By July 1890, Henry and Ella Sandhovel had purchased this proper- <br />ty from Edward Chapin. The house was built within a year. Henry <br />Sandhovel, a Civil War veteran and tinsmith, worked as the deputy <br />township assessor; by 1910 he had retired. Ella sold the house to <br />John Hunter by 1925; she had moved to Los Angeles in 1918 to live <br />with her children. <br />808 Forest Gabled-T <br />John R. Rupert, book publisher, book manufacturer and amateur <br />poet and his wife, Edith, had purchased a portion of lot 58 from <br />Edward Chapin by 1890. The house was built by 1891. John resided <br />in this house until 1935 when he moved to Indianapolis to live with <br />his daughter, Agnes; he passed away in 1939. <br />809 Forest Gabled-T/American Foursquare <br />Harriet Sweet was listed as the owner of this property, lot 26, in <br />1890; however, neither she nor her husband is ever listed at this <br />address. The house was built between 1890 and 1894 and was later <br />modified. George Uhler, a stenographer for Oliver, lived here from <br />1894 until 1898. Fred and Addie Hinz purchased the house in 1916.