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United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form <br />NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 <br />Edgewater Place Historic District Saint Joseph County, IN <br />Name of Property County and State <br />Section 7 page 15 <br /> <br />clapboards. The house has wide-overhanging eaves supported by carved heavy timber brackets. <br />The roof is covered with asphalt shingles. <br /> <br />The facade features a full-width porch with walls and corner piers covered with clapboards. The <br />walls are capped with stone and the piers carry a shed roof. The porch entry is located in the <br />north end of the façade. The porch’s back wall features a wood door with window in its top half <br />in the north end of the wall. A group of three Craftsman style windows, with the center window <br />being wider, is centered between the door and south end of the back wall. The second story <br />features two pairs of Craftsman style windows. The attic features a narrow pair of Craftsman <br />style windows centered in the gable wall. <br /> <br />The house was built by Whitcomb & Keller in 1920 and became the residence of Henry and <br />Mildred Buttolph (Butto) in the same year. Henry Buttolph was a foreman who died by 1927, <br />after which time Mildred Buttolph lived in the residence until 1937 when she sold the property to <br />LeClair and Dorothy Eells. LeClair Eells was a professor at the University of Notre Dame.13 <br /> <br />547 River Avenue. Holycross House, Four Square, 1923, Contributing <br />Whitcomb & Keller, builders <br />Garage, Contributing. <br /> <br />545 River Avenue. Nicol House, Bungalow, 1922, Contributing <br />Whitcomb & Keller, builders <br />Garage, Non-Contributing. <br /> <br />537 River Avenue. Bannon House, Four Square, 1923, Contributing <br />Whitcomb & Keller, builders <br />Garage, Contributing. <br /> <br />*533 River Avenue. Blackford-Wyek House, Four Square, c. 1919, Contributing <br />Whitcomb & Keller, builders <br />Garage, Non-Contributing. <br /> <br />525 River Avenue. Albert Holycross House, Craftsman/Bungalow, 1922, Contributing <br />Whitcomb & Keller, builders <br />Left side of photo 14 <br />Shed, Contributing. <br /> <br />521 River Avenue. Jeffries House, Four Square, c. 1920, Contributing <br />Whitcomb & Keller, builders <br />Second from left side of photo 14 <br />Garage, Non-Contributing <br /> <br /> <br />13 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1986, rev. 1988