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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 25 <br /> <br />wide fascia boards, and eaves supported by wood braces. The roof is covered with asphalt <br />shingles. <br /> <br />The front façade features a full-width porch with brick foundation and three, square columns. <br />The porch has a wood floor and balustrade composed of square wood pickets. The columns have <br />stone caps that carry a wood lintel that supports a shed roof with exposed rafters. A gable is <br />centered above the porch’s entry steps in its west half. The gable wall is covered with beaded <br />boards. The brick columns feature a raised pattern of brick is a design typical of the Craftsman <br />era. A pair of Prairie Style windows is in the east half of the porch’s back wall. A wood door <br />with a full, Prairie Style window flanked by short Prairie Style side-lites is in the west half of the <br />porch’s back wall. The second story features two pairs of Prairie Style windows. A pair of short <br />Prairie Style windows is centered in the attic gable wall. <br /> <br />Whitcomb & Keller constructed this house in 1920 and for a brief time, George and Helen <br />Ahlhorn lived in the home. George Ahlhorn was the power superintendent for the Studebaker <br />Company. The house was transferred to Fayetta Ruff in 1924 by Whitcomb & Keller. Fayetta, a <br />teacher at Central Junior High School of South Bend, lived in the home with her sister, Laura <br />Ruff, until it was sold in 1937.23 <br /> <br /> <br />Monroe Street, south side only <br /> <br />*** (three light fixtures on this street) <br />644 E Monroe Street. Alper House, Tudor Revival, 1926, Contributing <br />Whitcomb & Keller, builders; Ernest W. Young, architect <br />Photo 25 <br />Garage, Contributing <br />The two-story house features a base and walls covered with stucco and a roof covered with <br />asphalt shingles with eaves supported by wood purlins. The façade is composed of two front <br />gables connected by a hipped portion in the center and low-slung outer eaves with dormers in the <br />east and west facades. The east front-gabled section features an enclosed porch on its east end. <br />The porch has stucco walls and corner piers which are tapered. The porch is enclosed by rows of <br />wood casement windows divided into eight panes. A chimney, also stuccoed, rises in the middle <br />of the east front-gabled section. An 8/8 window is east of the chimney in the first story and a <br />casement window composed of six panes is east of the chimney in the second story. <br /> <br />The west-gabled section features a porch with stucco walls and tapered corner piers on its west <br />end. A three-sided projecting bay with tapered corners and a shed roof is east of the porch on the <br />first story. It features a row of four 4/4 wood windows with transoms divided into four panes. A <br />6/6 wood window is centered in the west front-gable’s second story. A casement divided into six <br />panes is west of the 6/6 window. A wood attic louver is centered at the top of the gable. <br /> <br /> <br />23 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1980, rev. 1985/1987/1997
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