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 18 wood window is also centered in the first story’s north half. The second story features a pair of narrow 1/1 windows centered in the bay. A pair of 1/1 windows is centered in the north half of the second story. The upper sashes are composed of leaded art glass. The bay’s gable wall features a trim board at the bottom and full-round arched attic window, also wood, with wood key. William LaBadie purchased the house lot from Wolf Fuerbringer, the son of Andrew Fuerbringer, who platted this section along Lincoln Way in the late 1800s. The lot was purchased in 1901 for $200. LaBadie, an engineer who later moved to Chicago, constructed the home then sold it about ten years later to his children, Charles and Marie, for $500 in 1911. The property went through several sales and transfers until 1917 when it was purchased by Nettie Young, the wife of Timon Young who was one of the founders of Manchester College. Nettie held joint ownership with her daughter, Lulu, who inherited the home after her mother’s death in 1945.16 705/707 Lincoln Way. Seider House, Craftsman, 1920, Contributing Left side of photo 18 709/711 Lincoln Way. Seider Apartments, Colonial Revival, 1922, Contributing Freyermuth & Maurer, architects Middle of photo 18 The two-story apartment building features more refined, brown-colored brick with limestone trim on its façade and common brick on its sides and back. Similarly, the building features stylized multi-pane upper sashes on its front façade and 1/1 wood windows on the remaining walls. Many of the windows in the side walls are paired together with brick sills and segmental arches. A projecting belt course of brick wraps the building at the bottom of the first story and between the first and second stories. A belt course of projecting rowlocks is at the top of the second story and bottom of the brick parapet which is capped with stone on the front and tile coping on the sides. The roof is generally flat and covered with synthetic materials. The symmetrical facade is dominated by projecting two-story porches on its north and south halves. The porches have brick foundations capped with stone, brick walls with panels enframed by projecting brick, and two-story brick corner columns that are square. The porch walls are also capped with stone. The second story porches feature wide segmental arches with stone corner blocks and keystone. The porches have gabled parapets with an enframed panel of stacked header brick. The back wall of the porches feature a pair of 6/1 wood windows in the first story and a pair of wood French doors with side-lites in the second story. A narrow porch is recessed between the two porches and forms the entry into the building. It features a full-round arch with keystone on the first story and brick balcony wall with enframed panel on the second story. The first story features a modern metal entry door with window in the top half. The second story features two narrow 1/1 wood windows with sills composed of rowlocks and a lintel composed of soldier brick. This middle section has a parapet with an enframed panel and stone cap. 16 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1985, rev. 1987, 1997