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Carriage House <br />Chapin Park Local Historic District Guidebook <br />Page 43 <br />601 Park Avenue Carpenter Gothic Revival <br />Built between 1855 and 1857 for Horatio Chapin, this house is the <br />oldest existing structure in the District and an important example of <br />the Gothic revival style in Indiana. Chapin was an early settler of <br />South Bend and a merchant, banker and elder for the First <br />Presbyterian Church. He died in 1871 intestate. Edward Chapin <br />eventually inherited the house and sold it in 1883 to Mrs. Anna E. <br />Meyers. Christopher and Caroline Fassnacht purchased the home in <br />1888 and lived in it until 1936. They raised three sons: Homer, Paul <br />and Walter. In the 1890s, Christopher turned the Chapin House 90 <br />degrees to face Park Avenue. He also later added the glass garage. <br />Christopher was a contractor and president of the Indiana Lumber <br />Company. His company built the granite-faced First Presbyterian <br />Church at the corner of Washington and Lafayette and several other <br />buildings in South Bend. He also subdivided a portion of Chapin <br />Park for residential development. <br />607 Park Avenue Craftsman <br />In 1911, Freyermuth & Maurer designed this home for Ethel and <br />Homer Fassnacht, the daughter-in-law and son of Christopher and <br />Caroline Fassnacht. Homer was involved in the lumber and build- <br />ing business and managed the West Side Lumber Company. They <br />raised two children: H. Jack and William. Homer and Ethel resided <br />in this house into the 1970s. <br />608 Park Avenue American Foursquare/Craftsman <br />Myron, a banker at South Bend National Bank, and Abbie <br />Campbell built this house in 1910 after their son, Edward, moved <br />into the new home at 323 W. Navarre Street. The Campbells lived <br />here with their two daughters, Ada and Vera, until 1914. <br />610 Park Avenue Queen Anne <br />Myron and Abbie Campbell also owned this parcel of land and had <br />this house built for their son, Robert, in 1904. Robert also worked <br />for the South Bend National Bank. From 1906 until 1921, the house <br />was rented to the Ralph Goodwin and Miles O’Brien families. In <br />1921, the Campbell family sold the property to Carl Ginz, an expert <br />in the insurance field and president of private insurance firms.