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 35 America’s leading architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, during the early 20th century. Both homes, located at 557 Edgewater and 802 Arch, have prow-like roofed porches and bays that accentuate horizontal lines. The house as 557 Edgewater (middle of photo 03) features stucco walls, Prairie Style wood windows, a wide front porch and side port cochere with low-pitched hipped roofs. The house at 802 Arch Street (left side of photo 23) is covered with wood shingles and features an interesting, full-width front porch with rectangular corner columns, projecting front wall, and low-pitched hipped roof. The house also features a three-sided bay that projects on its west side and one centered on the front façade’s second story. The latter features windows with interesting geometric patterns. Another style with a high presence in the district is representative of the trend in residential design away from American or European precedents during the early 1900s. Craftsman- Bungalow architecture broke from revival styles. The Craftsman style was inspired in part by the work of brothers Charles and Henry Greene in California. Their work spanned from 1893 to 1914; in 1903 they began applying Arts & Crafts details to simple bungalows that quickly became popularized by several home magazines of the period, including Gustav Stickley’s The Craftsman. The term bungalow originates in India where it refers to a low house surrounded by porches. The American form of the bungalow was publicized in California. The Craftsman style spread quickly through the country as an acceptable and desirable style for the growing middle class in quickly developing suburbs. These homes were further popularized in pattern books and other home magazines, as well as in local newspapers. The bungalow form and Craftsman style were popular from about 1905-1935. Craftsman style homes in the district take on several forms including Bungalow and simple side- gabled or cross-gabled houses. A good example of a Craftsman influenced side-gabled house is located at 516 River Avenue (second from left side of photo 09). The house rebuffs common symmetry by placing its porch and entry on the south half of the façade, otherwise, it seems to have a simple two-story side-gabled form. The walls, porch walls, and columns are covered with wood shingles and the house has 8/1 wood windows. The roof is supported by wood braces and features exposed rafter tails. It has a small gabled dormer centered in the attic. Another form of the Craftsman style is a cross-gabled house at 713 Arch Street (photo 24). The two-story house with attic gable walls features a variety of clapboard treatment including patterned stickwork in the gables. The gables are supported by wood braces and wood windows feature Prairie Style mullion patterns. The porch features a shed roof with gable over the entry on the west side of the façade. Bungalows in the district take on a few forms. The most common is a one-and-a-half story house with side gables, full-width front porch, and a large dormer with either a gabled roof or shed roof centered on the front façade. Others are simple one-story examples of the form. There are two excellent examples of Bungalows representing both of these forms side-by-side at 549 and 553 Edgewater Drive (photo 04). The example at 549 Edgewater is one-and-a-half stories with side gables and a full-width front porch. The house has both brick and stucco walls, 6/1 wood windows, and a gabled dormer centered in its front wall. The house at 553 Edgewater is one- story with side gables and features a wainscot of stone and walls covered with wood shingles.