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318 Lamont Terrace American Foursquare <br />W.W. Schneider designed this home between 1906 and 1908 for <br />Reuben and Bertha Miller. Reuben worked as an attorney. In 1910, <br />Fred and Marion Roys purchased the house and lived there until <br />1919. Fred was involved in the wholesale lumber business and <br />worked with local lumber companies. Dr. John H. and Nellie N. Ellis <br />purchased the property in the 1920s. Nellie survived her husband by <br />a few years and lived in the house into the 1950s. <br />319 Lamont Terrace Queen Anne <br />By 1909, Emma DuShane had this house built as an investment <br />property. The first tenants were Mentor and Sophia Wetzstein. Mr. <br />Wetzstein was president of the Ideal Concrete Machine Company. <br />By 1925, Bernard and Winifred Myers had purchased the property. <br />Winifred Myers resided here into the 1950s. The front porch was <br />remodeled in 1957. <br />321 Lamont Terrace (also 706 Park Avenue)Prairie Style <br />Andrew Anderson and Emma DuShane commissioned Selby & <br />Young to design this large duplex that now stands in the original <br />location of the Anderson House (710 Park Avenue). In the 1908 city <br />directory, Mortimer Reed is listed as a resident. In 1927, Emma <br />DuShane sold the property to Bernard and Winifred Clark. Harry <br />and Mary Wheelock lived here from 1925 to 1968. <br />405 Lamont Terrace Side-Gable Cottage/Queen Anne <br />This house was built in 1883/84 for Richard H. Lyon, the chief edi- <br />torial writer for the South Bend Tribune, and his wife, Frances Kurtz <br />Lyon. The Lyon family came to South Bend via Michigan and <br />Connecticut. They lived in this house for almost thirty years. <br />407 Lamont Terrace Gable Front <br />Built between 1883 and 1884, the house was first owned by William <br />W. Giddings, a well-known councilman, and his wife, Mamie <br />Giddings. By 1885, William had passed away. Mamie married <br />George Clarke, an attorney, County Prosecutor and Notre Dame <br />Law professor, in 1886. He and Mamie raised three children: Mary <br />(Clarke Coquillard), Agatha and Matthew. In 1895, George married <br />Mary E. Vanderhoof, a socialite who would sell the house to John <br />Yeagley in 1911. <br />Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District <br />Page 26