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Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District <br />Page 60 <br />620 Rex Street Queen Anne <br />(see 826 Ashland) <br />621 Rex Street Gable Front <br />The history of this house could not be compiled before the printing <br />of this booklet. <br />701 Rex Street Craftsman <br />One of the younger houses on Rex, this residence was built in 1923 <br />as an investment property. Gustav Schmilling resided here in 1925. <br />By 1930, Oscar and Maude Anderson are listed as residents and later <br />purchased the home. They raised three children: Edward, Betty and <br />Robert. Oscar was a freight representative for a railroad corporation. <br />The Andersons sold the house to Ralph Keever. <br />706 Rex Street Gabled-Ell/Stick Style <br />William Boyd, president of the South Bend Lumber Company, built <br />this house as an income property in 1900. William also built 427 and <br />431 Lamont Terrace, and possibly 858 Forest Avenue. The first resi- <br />dent of this house, Arthur Freeman, was a bookkeeper at Oliver <br />Chilled Plow Works. Subsequent residents include: Homer Moore <br />(1906) and Willard and Alice Orvis (1908-1916). <br />410 - 412 William Italianate/Gable Front <br />Known as 410 Wood Street until the late 1920s, records date this <br />duplex to 1880. Seeber S. Ennis is listed as the principal resident in <br />1899 and 1901. Other residents include: Edward Arnold (1903), John <br />Eckert (1904-1908), Edward Bankson (1910), Samuel Tushing (1912- <br />1914 and George Murphy (1916-1925). <br />414 William Gable Front <br />This house, formerly known as 414 Wood, was built circa 1884. <br />Edward Hensel, a laborer for Studebaker, his wife, Jane, and their <br />twelve children lived here from at least 1899 until 1916. By 1925, <br />William Hensel, their eldest son, had acquired the property.