2. Taylor's Field 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 Taylor’s Field Historic District Saint Joseph County, IN Name of Property County and State Section 7 page 20 the top of the second story. The house has 1/1 wood windows, with crown moldings on the first story, and a hipped roof that is covered with asphalt shingles. A wide porch wraps around the front (south) façade to the east façade and features modern wood skirting and rows of Doric columns between which is a balustrade of wood pickets. The columns support the porch’s low-pitched hipped roof. The entry to the porch is on its west wall. A wide wood entry door with window in the top half is in the west end of the porch’s back wall and front façade. A large 1/1wood window is east of the entry. The façade’s second story has a row of four 1/1 wood windows centered in the wall. A dormer with a hipped roof is centered on the façade and features walls covered with shingles and a short window divided into ten panes. The Frederick Auer family lived at 517 Rush Street in 1908 when the father, Frederick, died leaving his widow, Martha, and children James and Hannah who also lived in the home. Frederick Auer was formerly a farmer near Lakeville until he moved to South Bend in 1889.25 It is likely that this house was built shortly after Frederick’s death on the same lot but facing South Street to the south rather than Rush Street to the east given the address. James and Hannah continued to live at the home during the first half of the 20th century. James Auer became captain of the South Bend Fire Department and Hannah Auer was a music teacher at the South Bend Conservatory of Music.26 407 South Street. Free Classic, c.1900, Contributing. 313 South Street. Gable-front/Bungalow, c.1885/1920, Contributing. 219 South Street. Supy House, Queen Anne, c. 1905, Contributing. Left side of photo 08 215 South Street. Horace & Cora Kimble House, T-plan, c. 1906, Contributing. Garage, Contributing. The one-and-a-half story house has a brick foundation and vinyl siding. The house has modern 1/1 vinyl windows and the gabled roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The house has a T-plan with a porch that wraps around from the front (south) façade to the east façade. The porch has brick piers that support walls enclosed with rows of 1/1 windows between wood posts. A porch door is on the southeast corner of the porch. The front façade’s second story features a narrow pair of 1/1 vinyl windows with a shaped top/surround. The east and west-facing gabled sections featured clipped gables and a matching window pattern in the second story. The house was constructed on lots that were part of the original Taylor’s Field plat but sold likely undeveloped to Jacob Kerner in 1904 for $5000. Kerner subdivided the lots and sold the lot the house occupies to Horace and Cora Kimble in 1906 for $4500. Horace Kimble worked at 25 Frederick Auer obituary. South Bend Tribune. 10 Dec 1908. Pg. 5, col. 4 26 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1982, rev. 1988