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 6 A complete list of resources follows: Edgewater Drive, west side going north *619 Edgewater Drive. Opperman House, Colonial Revival/Bungalow, 1924, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Left side of photo 01 The one and a half story, side-gabled house features a brick foundation and clapboards on its walls. The house has 6/1 wood windows with simple trim boards. The roof features cornice returns and is covered with asphalt shingles. The front façade features a full-width porch and second story dormer with balcony over the porch. The porch features a brick foundation and three square posts with a simple balustrade composed of square pickets. The porch has a wood floor and concrete entry steps just north of the center post on the front wall. The back wall of the porch features a row of three 6/1 windows in its south half and entry door and 6/1 window in its north half. The wood entry door features a window divided into multiple panes in its top half. The dormer on the second story features two balcony doors divided into multiple panes of glass and a shed roof. The balcony railing is composed of four posts and a balustrade of square pickets. The narrow portions of porch roof flanking the balcony are low-pitched shed roofs covered with asphalt shingles. The house was constructed by Edgewater’s developers, Whitcomb & Keller, in 1924. The first residents were the Leo and Antoinette Opperman family who received transfer of the property in 1928 from the developers. While earlier in life Otto Opperman had been a music teacher and musician at the Palace Theater, the family started Sunshine Cleaners, a drycleaning business in the city in 1930. The Oppermans sold the house to Adolf Shutzman in 1933.1 615 Edgewater Drive. Widmar House, Colonial Revival, 1923, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Second from left side of photo 01 Garage, Contributing *611 Edgewater Drive. Strandhagen-Mooren House, Colonial Revival, 1924, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Third from left side of photo 01; second from right side of photo 02 Garage, Contributing *605 Edgewater Drive. Krug House, Dutch Colonial Revival, 1920, Contributing Whitcomb & Keller, builders Right side of photo 02 Garage, Contributing 1 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1985, rev. 1987