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 22 Garage, Contributing The large, two-story house features a brick foundation and porch, clapboards, and a low-pitched hipped roof covered with asphalt shingles. The first story features corner boards and trim boards at the top and bottom of the walls. The top trim board forms a sill band for the second story windows. The second story features clapboards that are narrower than the first story clapboards. The house has 4/1 Craftsman style wood windows with crown moldings. The façade’s full-width porch features square columns of brick on its corners and brick walls with a brick pier that flanks concrete steps at the west end of the façade. The columns, pier, and walls are capped with stone. The columns carry a low-pitched hipped roof. The wood entry door features a full Craftsman style window and is located in the west end of the porch’s back wall. A group of three Craftsman windows, composed of a 5/1 window flanked by 4/1 windows, is centered in the wall east of the entry. The second story features two pairs of 4/1 windows. An attic dormer with a low-pitched hipped roof is centered on the façade. It features wood shingled walls and three small Craftsman windows divided into three panes. The center window is covered with wood. The house was built by Whitcomb & Keller in 1923 for John and Augusta Anderson. John Anderson was a native of Sweden who came to South Bend in 1888 and worked as a patternmaker. He married Augusta (Hannah) Swanson in 1894 and had a daughter who married and lived with her husband, Hollis Bryant, in the home with her parents through the 1930s.20 718 Arch Avenue. Dutch Colonial Revival, 1921, Contributing Attributed to Whitcomb & Keller, builders Left side of photo 22 Garage, c.1930, Contributing 722 Arch Avenue. Powers House, Four Square, 1920, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Third from left side of photo 23 726 Arch Avenue. Four Square, 1923, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Second from left side of photo 23 802 Arch Avenue. Lafferty House, Prairie Style, 1922, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Left side of photo 23 Garage, Contributing The two-story house has a brick foundation and walls covered with large wood shingles. The second story’s walls jut out slightly above a trim board to highlight horizontality to the house. The house has 8/1 and 10/1 wood windows with simple trim boards. The low-pitch hipped roof 20 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1985, rev. 1987