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Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District <br />Page 44 <br />613 Park Avenue Queen Anne <br />This house was built in 1892 for Oren G. Huff and Bessie Oliver <br />Huff. They resided here with their son, Charles, and Bessie’s sis- <br />ter, Hattie Oliver. Oren was a wholesale lumber dealer. The Huffs <br />sold the house to Arnold and Anna Peden. Amy Jones, former <br />owner of 710 Park, restored this house to a single-family residence <br />in 2000-2001. <br />616 Park Avenue American Foursquare <br />Albert Sibley, founding partner of Sibley & Ware, and Eva Sibley <br />purchased property from Mary Chapin Anderson in 1882 and built <br />a large house (614 Park) at the center of the property. By 1906, Albert <br />and their son, Walter, divided the property. They had six houses <br />built around Sibley Court for investment purposes or for family <br />members. The court is now listed as part of Park Avenue. This <br />house was built as an investment property around 1916. <br />617 Park Avenue Gable Front <br />Lizzie, Bertha and Bessie George purchased this lot from <br />Christopher Fassnacht in 1891 and had the house built within the <br />same year. Bertha was a stenographer for the Studebaker Corpora- <br />tion; Bessie was a bookkeeper for the South Bend Tribune; and <br />Lizzie’s late husband, Charles George, owned a grocery store. By <br />1908, Edward, manager for a life insurance firm, and Catherine <br />Twomey had purchased the house. <br />618 Park Avenue Period Revival <br />In 1906, Albert Sibley had commissioned W.W. Schneider to design <br />this house for his son, Walter Sibley. Walter resided here until 1916. <br />The Sibley family then employed the house as an income property. <br />619 Park Avenue Queen Anne <br />Henry and Anna [Fannie] Boyd Pershing purchased this lot in 1893 <br />and had the house built by 1894. Henry managed an office special- <br />ties store, manufactured ledger books and was a typewriter dealer. <br />Harry lived here until 1941. By 1949, Florence Duncan had pur- <br />chased the house. <br />620 Park Avenue Prairie Style <br />The Sibley family had this house built in 1914 as an investment <br />property. Gilbert Dunkin may have resided here from 1916 until <br />1923. He was a sales manager for the George Cutter Company of <br />South Bend, which manufactured Chapin Park’s street lights.