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Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District <br />Page 22 <br />505 N Lafayette Blvd Colonial Revival <br />Designed by the architectural firm of Freyermuth & Maurer for <br />Samuel Lippman in 1916. Lippman owned the Lippman Leather <br />Store located at 122 East Jefferson Street. The Lippman family sold <br />the house to Daniel Cashman, a restaurateur, in 1929. Cashman sold <br />the house to the American Red Cross in 1945. It has since been used <br />as office space and a children’s nursery. <br />515-517 N Lafayette Blvd Late 20th-Century Modern <br />Records date this building to 1968 and note that it had been remod- <br />eled in 1986. It is a medical office building. <br />527 N Lafayette Blvd Tudor Revival <br />This Ernest W. Young designed house was published in The Ohio <br />Architect & Builder magazine in its May 1910 issue. The house <br />was built for Herbert and Emma Westervelt. Herbert worked for <br />Bissell Chilled Plow Works and the Atlas Paper Bag Company. He <br />was also an early amateur motion picture photographer and col- <br />lector of films. <br />601 N Lafayette Blvd Gabled-T <br />This house was built by 1891. In that year, Dr. Edward E. Paxton and <br />Mrs. Nellie G. Paxton were living in the house. Paxton was a den- <br />tist with offices at 101 South Michigan. Victor E. Paxton is noted as <br />a resident in 1914. <br />607 N Lafayette Blvd Bungalow <br />The first residents of this circa 1920 house were John and Eleanor <br />Fetter. Eleanor survived her husband and continued to live in this <br />house into the late 1930s. Esta and Gertrude Oren were the second <br />owners of this house. <br />609 N Lafayette Blvd American Foursquare <br />This house was built for Harriet (Minnie) and Seth T. Best around <br />1923. Seth was a dentist who worked in the Associates Building in <br />South Bend. The Bests resided at this address into the 1950s.