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Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District <br />Page 24 <br />633 N Lafayette Blvd Gabled-T <br />Built in 1885, the house became an investment property in the <br />1890s. Dr. O. E. Bell resided here in 1899. From 1900 until 1902, <br />the McCorkle family – J. M. and Anna McCorkle, and their six chil- <br />dren: Margaret, Howard, Lewis, Fred, Willis and Helen – lived at <br />this address. George Bergus had moved from 625 Lafayette to this <br />address by 1932. <br />837 N Lafayette Blvd Minimal Modern <br />The tennis pavilion for the Leeper Park Tennis Courts was built after <br />1965 by the Parks Department. The Works Progress Administration <br />shelter house, built in 1938-1939, once stood near the tennis courts. <br />The playground was also located here before it was moved across <br />Lafayette Blvd. <br />Leeper Park Tennis Courts and Ball Field Recreation <br />306 Lamont Terrace Prairie Style <br />This Prairie Style house was originally located at 708 N. Lafayette <br />Blvd. and was moved after 1987. Alexis Coquillard, the grand nephew <br />of pioneer Alexis A. Coquillard, had the house constructed by 1919. <br />The younger Coquillard was the director of the American Trust Co., <br />the Historical Society and the Notre Dame Alumni Club, and was <br />active in many other South Bend organizations. His wife, Mary Clarke <br />Coquillard, was an active writer and researcher of local history. She <br />wrote articles for the South Bend Tribune and “Alexis Coquillard, His <br />Time.” (See 407 Lamont Terrace.) <br />307 Lamont Terrace Colonial Revival <br />This house had been newly built in 1921 when Herman and Evelyn <br />Tohulka purchased it. Herman was involved in the real estate, loans <br />and insurance fields. He also served as the city controller and as a <br />county commissioner. Ruth and Herman Miller purchased the <br />house from the Tohulkas.