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Chapin Park Local Historic District Guidebook <br />Page 41 <br />318 W Navarre Street Queen Anne: Half-Timbered <br />Charles Woolman, a local carpenter, built this house for resale pur- <br />poses in 1896. He sold the property to Laura Shidler, the widow of <br />Dr. Arthur Shidler. Their daughter, Merle Shidler Warner, and son- <br />in-law, Eugene Warner also lived here by 1916. Eugene acquired the <br />property in 1923. He was a prominent South Bend businessman. <br />319 W Navarre Street Gabled-T <br />Peter and Mary Stocker purchased this property from Myron <br />Campbell in 1883 and built this house soon afterward. Their wid- <br />owed daughter, Cora Stocker Sarle, and nephew, Levi Adams, a phar- <br />macist, also lived here. Mrs. Mary Stocker resided here until 1908. <br />320 W Navarre Street Shingle Style/Queen Anne <br />Fred Keller, county surveyor and a civil engineer, and Edith Keller, <br />purchased this lot from Charles Woolman in 1897 and had this <br />house built by 1898. They lived here with their son, Charles. By <br />1904, the Kellers had sold the house to Myron Campbell; they had <br />built a new house at 609 Portage Avenue. <br />323 W Navarre Street Queen Anne <br />By 1881, Myron and Abbie Campbell purchased property flanking <br />Navarre and Park from Mary and Andrew Anderson. Ahouse was <br />built for their family by 1883 in this location, but it was removed to <br />build this present house between 1908 and 1910. This house was <br />built for their son, Edward, and daughter-in-law, Lillian Campbell. <br />326 W Navarre Street Queen Anne: Spindlework <br />This house was built between 1884 and 1886 for Daniel and Mary <br />Miller. Daniel was an engineer for the Studebaker Company. Mary <br />Miller lived here until 1908 and gained income from boarders. By <br />1910, Harrison and Antoinette Crockett purchased the property and <br />resided here until 1948. Walter Hildebrand, an architect, purchased <br />the property in 1949. <br />330 W Navarre Street Stick Style <br />William and Eva Stover purchased this property in 1888 and built <br />the house by 1894. The house is a reversal of a design from David <br />S. Hopkin’s 1886 and 1893 Victorian plan books. William Stover <br />was active in the founding of the St. Joseph County Historical <br />Society and was a superintendent at Studebaker. Their daughter, <br />Harriet, resided here into the 1930s.