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