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Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District <br />Page 50 <br />820 Park Avenue Craftsman <br />This house was most likely moved to this lot, but records are unable <br />to confirm this. Fire insurance maps depict a house with a much dif- <br />ferent footprint – that of a gabled-ell – in 1899. Ella Miller, the widow <br />of Dr. Martin Miller, owned the property from 1892 until 1903. <br />Subsequent owners included: Dr. Alva Stonecipher, Albert and <br />Laura Leisure, and John and Alice Yeagley. <br />824 Park Avenue Gabled-Ell <br />Built in 1892, Mrs. Elizabeth Wagner owned the house from 1894 <br />until 1901. Her son, Earl Wagner, a pharmacist for G.D. Staples, <br />acquired the house from his mother and lived here until 1903. Frank <br />and Jennie Brown purchased the home in 1904 and lived here with <br />their children and Frank’s mother until 1910. Frank and Luella Koos <br />lived here from 1912 until 1931. Frank worked for Oliver Plow. <br />827 Park Avenue Free Classic Queen Anne <br />Bell and Robert Tutt purchased half of lot 66 by 1890, and had this <br />house built by 1898. By 1899, Arthur and Anna Keltner had pur- <br />chased this house and resided here with their children, Harold and <br />Bernard, and Anna’s mother, Mrs. Jennie Smith. Arthur was a con- <br />tractor, mosaic tile artisan and owner of a hardware store. Keltner <br />sold the house to Benjamin Drollinger. <br />828 Park Avenue Queen Anne <br />This house was built between 1890 and 1894. The first recorded res- <br />idents of the home were: Edward, Enos and Frank Weed. The <br />Weeds worked for the South Bend Porcelain Company. Dr. John <br />Cassidy and Cecelia Cassidy purchased the house by 1898 and lived <br />with their eight children. W.W. Schneider remodeled the house in <br />1916 for Happ & Taggart. <br />830 Park Avenue Gabled-T <br />Emily and Thomas Freeman purchased this lot and had the house <br />built by 1891. Thomas was a bookbinder and later head of the <br />bindery department at the South Bend Tribune. The Freemans lived <br />in the house until 1906. In 1908, real estate developers, Happ & <br />Taggart, purchased the property for investment purposes. William <br />G. Hintz purchased the property for his residence by 1925.