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 14 River Avenue, west side going north *559 River Avenue. Simon House, Craftsman, 1920, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Left side of photo 13 557 River Avenue. Crum House, Craftsman/Bungalow, 1922, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Second from left side of photo 13 Garage, Contributing 553 River Avenue. Burger House, Four Square, 1922, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Third from left side of photo 13 Garage, Contributing The two-story house features a brick foundation and clapboards with corner boards. A high trim board forms a beltcourse at the top of the first story and second story. The house has 6/1 wood windows with simple trim boards. The house has a hipped roof with attic dormers on its east and south sides. The dormers feature clapboards and pairs of small wood windows divided into eight panes. The dormers have hipped roofs. The roofs are covered with asphalt shingles. The front façade is dominated by a wide porch with brick foundation and tall brick corner piers that rise above the eave line of the hipped porch roof. The porch has a balustrade composed of square pickets and tapered newel posts that flank a set of steps centered on the façade. Wood posts rise from the newel posts to carry the center of the porch roof. The porch’s back wall features a wood entry door with a short window in its top. It is flanked by 8/1 wood windows in the first story. The second story features two 6/1 wood windows. The house was constructed in 1922 by Whitcomb & Keller and was purchased by Russell and Anna Burger who received transfer of ownership in 1925. Russell Burger was a general accountant for the Studebaker Company of South Bend. They sold the house to Rose Lamb in 1925 who rented it to Alfred Andrews for five years, selling it to him in 1930.12 549 River Avenue. Buttolph House, Craftsman 1920, Contributing. Whitcomb & Keller, builders The two-story, cross-gabled house features a concrete foundation and clapboards. It has Craftsman style wood windows with an upper sash divided into two large panes and a row of small panes over a single-lite lower sash. The front façade’s windows are like these but may be wider or narrower, but follow this pattern. The windows have simple crown moldings. The gable walls are divided from the second story by a tall trim board. The gables are covered with narrow 12 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1985, rev. 1988