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 Sections 9-end page 34 roofs on the front façade. This dormer accesses a balcony on the house was 619 Edgewater. The similarities between the two houses may be intentional for their location at the corners of Bronson and Monroe with Edgewater Drive. A more typical 20th century Colonial Revival side- gabled house is found at 805 Arch Street. The house has a simple symmetrically arranged façade with porches at either end and a simple wood entry surround with fluted pilasters and pediment. The Colonial Revival style was also employed in the design of the Seider Apartments in 1922 at 805 Lincoln Way (middle of photo 18). The two-story brick building features two-story porches with segmental-arched openings, with keystones, and gabled parapets with enframed panels. Dutch Colonial, as the name implies, was popular with Dutch immigrants who brought traditional building techniques that included gambrel roofs to the colonies. Gambrel roofs, along with wide dormers with shed roofs, are the most identifiable feature of that style. The district has eight of these with the most common form being side-gabled, gambrel roofs with wide dormers with shed roofs on the front façade. This common type is found at 525 Edgewater Drive (middle of photo 07). The house is covered with large wood shakes and features a wide front porch with wood posts and 8/1 wood windows. A non-typical version of Dutch Colonial architecture is found at 556 River Avenue (photo 11). The house features a gambrel, side-gabled roof but also features a lower cross-gable with gambrel on its north half. The house has a small porch on its south half and 6/1 wood windows. The American Four Square type was also popular during the early 1900s. Two stories tall, rectangular in plan, and typically crowned with a hipped roof, most builders incorporated Craftsman or Colonial Revival-styled porches into their facades. The Four Square offered more living space than most bungalows while having an Arts & Crafts feeling. It is thought to have grown out of the earlier Italianate cube-style house but became more regulated in its floor plan with four rooms on the first floor and second floor. Because of its prevalence in the Midwest, it was also called the “cornbelt cube”. Many examples of the American Four Square were constructed in the district, almost a third of all buildings, with some identifiable with Colonial Revival, Prairie Style, or Craftsman features. The variations between the examples include overall size (footprint), exterior materials (brick, stucco, and clapboards), front porch arrangement, roof pitch, and dormer style. The most basic form of the American Four Square is found at 512 River Avenue (left side of photo 09). The two-story house gives nod to the popular Prairie Style with the mullion configuration to its wood windows. In larger scale is the Four Square form at 714 Arch Street (left side of photo 22) which features Craftsman style wood windows and a division between first and second stories with narrower clapboards on the second story which features a trim board that forms a sill board for second story windows. The oldest Four Square in the district was built in 1908 at 729 Lincoln Way prior to the Edgewater plat (right side of photo 19). The long, two- story house features wood shingles on its walls, Craftsman style wood windows, and a large brick front porch with second floor balcony. The house has a large attic dormer with hipped roof. There are two examples of houses that have a two-story cube form but have additional features that better categorize them as examples of Prairie Style architecture that was made popular by