2. Edgewater Place Historic District - National Register Nomination

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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Edgewater Place Historic District Saint Joseph County, IN Name of Property County and State Section 7 page 10 Garage, Contributing *509/519 Edgewater Drive. Fries House, Colonial Revival, 1924, Contributing Right side of photo 06 Whitcomb & Keller, builders Garage, Contributing The two-story side-gabled house features a brick foundation and clapboards. The roof features cornice returns and is covered with asphalt shingles. The house has 10/1 wood windows with simple trim boards. The façade has a wide enclosed porch with a low-pitched hipped roof covered with asphalt shingles. The porch roof is carried by square columns, covered with clapboards, topped with thin, cornice-like capitals. The porch is enclosed with rows of 1/1 wood windows and features an entry door in its south wall. The entry door is wood with a full Craftsman style window. The second story features a wide dormer with shed roof on the façade. It has two 10/1 wood windows and is partially wrapped on the corners by cornice returns from the side gables. The house was constructed in 1924 by Whitcomb & Keller for Roy and Marie Fries. Roy Fries was the manager for Sailor Brothers Furniture Store in South Bend. The lived in the home until 1937, when they moved and rented the home until 1939 at which time, they sold the property.6 River Avenue, east side going south 510 River Avenue. Cunningham House, Bungalow, 1920, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders *512 River Avenue. Swonk House, Four Square, c. 1922, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Left side of photo 09 The two-story house has a brick foundation and clapboards with corner boards on its first story with a high wood belt course at the top and its second story is covered with wood shingles. The house has 9/1 Prairie Style wood windows, and its low-pitched hipped roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The façade features a wide porch with walls and corner piers covered with clapboards. The piers support a low-pitched hipped roof. The porch is enclosed with rows of wood screens and features a wood porch door with side-lites centered on the front wall. The second story features two pairs of Prairie Style 9/1 windows. The house was built about 1922 and became the home of Frank and Margaret Swonk who received transfer of ownership by Whitcomb & Keller in 1927. Frank Swonk was a native of Michigan who came to South Bend to study at Notre Dame University in 1897. Swonk played football for the university and graduated in 1905. He was a salesman for Phoenix Manufacturing 6 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1985, rev. 1987