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 17 The two-story house has a brick foundation and clapboards with trim boards at the top of the first and second story walls. The house has a typical Queen Anne cube form crowned by a hipped roof with lower cross gables over projecting bays on the front and east side. Patterned wood shingles are on the gable walls. The house features large 1/1 wood windows with crown moldings. The steeply pitched roof has cornice returns and is covered with asphalt shingles. The facade has a projecting, two-story gabled bay on its north half and a porch with a hipped roof that extends from the east end of the façade to halfway across the bay where the entry door is located. The porch features walls with clapboards capped with a trim boards and three square columns that are wood, tapered, and feature panels and simple capitals. The posts rest on the porch walls; two flank the entry at the north end of the porch’s front wall. The porch has a low- pitched hipped roof. A wood entry door with a full window is in the south half of the projecting bay (sheltered by the porch) and a 1/1 window is in the north half of the projecting bay’s first story. A large 1/1 window is centered in the bay’s second story and a short attic window is centered in the gable wall. The south half of the façade features a large 1/1 window centered in the back wall of the porch and a large 1/1 window centered in the second story. The house is one of those located in the Fuerbringer plat, on lot six. It was owned by Andrew Fuerbringer, the plat developer, prior to being sold by his son, Wolf Fuerbringer, in 1899 to Henry Parker for $2000. Parker was a retired farmer who bequeathed the home to his daughter, Iona Hempey, in 1918. Hempey rented the house to individuals until she sold it in 1944.15 631 Lincoln Way., House/commercial, c. 1900/1970, Non-contributing 635 Lincoln Way. Labadie House, Queen Anne, 1902, Contributing Photo 17 Garage, Contributing This house is similar to the house at 621 Lincoln Way with a cube form and lower cross gables, but mirrored in its front façade as viewed from the street. The house has a brick foundation and its walls are covered with large wood shingles. It features trim boards at the bottom of the first story and top of the second story that forms a frieze with rows of dentils and small, carved brackets that carry cornice returns on the gables. The house has 1/1 wood windows with crown moldings. The steeply-pitched hipped roof is covered with asphalt shingles. A notable feature on the north façade is a three-sided bay with cutaway corners that projects above the foundation and features narrow 1/1 wood windows in each wall and a low-pitched hipped roof. It is located in the west half of the first story. The front façade features a full-width porch with a wood floor and four stone piers that carry Doric columns. The columns carry a frieze with rows of dentils and the hipped porch roof. A simple balustrade of square pickets is between the piers. The façade’s projecting, two-story gabled bay features a large wood window in its first story, back wall of the porch. The projecting bay extends to the north on the first story to form a vestibule for the entry door which is centered in the back wall of the porch. The wood entry door features a window in its top half. A large 15 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1985, rev. 1987, 1997