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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 />Sections 9-end page 30 <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Narrative Statement of Significance (Provide at least one paragraph for each area of <br />significance.) <br /> <br />Edgewater Place Historic District has a robust number of examples of early 20th century <br />architecture related to the Craftsman/Bungalow style and Colonial Revival style. Within both <br />broad categories are examples that include features of other styles, either in form or stylistic <br />features. These include American Four Square, Prairie Style, Bungalow, and a subcategory of <br />Colonial Revival known as Dutch Colonial Revival. Combined, these represent over three- <br />quarters of the houses located at Edgewater Place and trace their construction to the time period <br />the development was platted in 1919 through 1927. They give the district its character of tightly <br />platted lots, several small garages, and tree-lined streets with historic streetlights. <br /> <br />Prior to the Edgewater Place plat, development had already occurred in a pocket at the south end <br />of the district and along Lincoln Way, then known as Vistula Road. George A. Frantz purchased <br />and platted the southeast section in 1871. Development was slow-going and mostly catered to <br />working class families of nearby manufacturing and mill industries. By 1875, there were five <br />houses in the Frantz plat. Abigail and William Harper developed another section in the south part <br />of the district in 1889 that included two streets: Harper Court (now Bronson Street) and River <br />Avenue south of Bronson.25 This early development is located in the area from Bronson Street <br />(both sides), south to the edge of the district between the Saint Joseph River and Lincoln Way <br />(photos 20-21). <br /> <br />Vistula Road was an important route between South Bend and Mishawaka and further east to <br />Elkhart that generally followed the south bank of the Saint Joseph River. The road enjoyed some <br />prominence as a main route into the city and it soon began to be lined with middle-class houses. <br />Within the district, the east side of Vistula Road was platted in 1897 between Harper Court <br />(Bronson) and Monroe Street by Andrew Fuerbringer (photos 16-19).26 <br /> <br />The houses from the Frantz and Harper plats in the south end of the district are mostly vernacular <br />in simple T-plan and gable-front forms and date from 1877-1912. The houses from the <br />Fuerbringer plat along Lincoln Way, that predate the Edgewater plat, are examples of the Queen <br />Anne style and American Four Square and date to 1892-1908. The oldest house in the district <br />was built in 1877 and has a simple T-form plan with a low-pitched gabled roof (left side of photo <br />20). The two-story house has clapboards and wood windows representing various early <br />remodeling campaigns. The two examples of Queen Anne architecture, located on Lincoln Way, <br />are nearly mirrored examples of each other in terms of form (photos 16-17). They feature a two- <br />story cube with steeply pitched hipped roof and lower cross-gables over projecting bays. The <br />houses have large windows with crown moldings and one-story porches with hipped roofs. The <br />house at 621 Lincoln Way has clapboards while the house at 635 Lincoln Way has walls covered <br />with large wood shingles. The house at 635 Lincoln Way has a few more refined features <br />including a formal frieze with rows of dentils below the roof and porch roof, Doric columns on <br /> <br />25 South Bend HPC Edgewater Place Local Historic District summary <br />26 South Bend HPC Edgewater Place Local Historic District summary
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