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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 Taylor’s Field Historic District Saint Joseph County, IN Name of Property County and State Section 7 page 10 530 St. Joseph Street. S. Harry & Etta Salinger House, Queen Anne, 1903, Contributing. Freyermuth & Maurer, architects Middle of photo 03/house at the corner; left side of photo 17 The two-and-a-half story house features a foundation and porch piers composed of cut fieldstone and vinyl siding. The house has large 1/1 wood windows with simple trim boards. The tall hipped roof features lower cross gables with cornice returns covered by shingled eaves. The house has a porch that wraps around the front and south facades, the house being located on the corner of St. Joseph and South Streets. The porch features stone piers with limestone caps that carry Doric columns. The columns carry an entablature with rows of dentils that supports a low- pitched hipped roof with flared eaves. The front (west) façade features rounded corners on the first story. The porch extends from the south end of the façade to the beginning of the north rounded corner. Both rounded corners feature curved windows; the north window is a short window while the south window is tall with a transom. The north half of the façade features a projecting gabled section with a modern metal entry door and 1/1 wood window in the first story. A modern metal entry door is also centered in the back wall of the porch. The south half of the first story steps back and features a wide window with transom. Centered in the second story is a small 1/1 window recessed between the projecting section on the north and a hipped roof section on the south. The projecting section features a group of three windows, narrow windows that flank a 1/1 window. The projecting section’s gable wall features a pair of small square windows dived into four panes with X-shaped mullions. The south section that is capped with a lower hipped roof features a projecting three- sided bay with cutaway corners. Each wall features a 1/1 window; the middle wall and window are wider than the other two. The house was designed by local architects, Freyermuth & Maurer in 1902 8 and built in 1903 for Samuel “Harry” and Etta Salinger. Harry Salinger was the owner of Salinger Brothers Department Store, also known as the Economy located on North Michigan Street. After his retirement in 1914, he became secretary-treasurer of Swanson-Lee Furniture Company and later invested in real estate. Harry Salinger died in 1944 and his wife sold the home and then resided on College Street.9 602 St. Joseph Street. First United Brethren Church, Colonial Revival, 1910, Contributing. L. H. Sturges (Indianapolis), architect Kuhne & Meneley and M. V. Cheesman Company (Mishawaka), builders Middle of photo 02 The brown-colored brick church building is two-stories on a raised basement and features stone trim, stained art glass windows, and a metal cornice that forms the base to brick parapet walls. The building’s basement windows are in groups of three 1/1 wood windows with stone sills. A stone belt course forms the top of the basement walls. The first and second story windows are in groups of three in slightly recessed, two-story bays divided between the floors with a panel of 8 “Among the Builders” South Bend Tribune. 17 May 1902. Pg. 1, col. 7 9 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1979, rev. 1988, 1998