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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 21 the Studebaker company and married Cora Vanderhoof in 1906. They lived at the home until 1927 after which time they rented it.27 211 South Street. Four Square/Prairie Style, 1905, Contributing. Right side of photo 17 The two-story house has a concrete foundation and clapboards on its first story and wood shingles on its second story; a wide trim board divides the first and second story. The house has 12/1 Craftsman style wood windows with simple trim boards. The low-pitched hipped roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The front (south) façade features a full-width porch with walls covered with clapboards. Three wood posts support the low-pitched hipped porch roof. The porch entry is on the west end of the façade. A wood entry door is in the west end of the porch’s back wall. A row of three 12/1 wood windows is east of the door. The façade’s second story features two pairs of 12/1 wood windows. The house was a rental and investment property built by Samuel Harry Salinger who also had his residence in the district at 530 St. Joseph Street. Salinger was a partner in a large dry goods store on South Michigan Street known as the Economy. It was sold to Josephine Alexander in 1931 who resided in the home until 1965.28 South Street, south side going east 116 South Street. Brom Brothers Building, Commercial, c.1910, Contributing. 128 South Street. Thomson-Baer House, Craftsman, 1908, Contributing. Photo 18 Attributed to Schneider & Austin, architects 29 Carriage house (1920), Contributing. Right side of photo 18 The one-and-a-half story house features gables facing north (front), east and west, and a one- story ell on the south or back side. The house has a brick wainscot and wood shingles on its first and gable walls. The first story walls feature an added horizontal trim to divide the shingles into bands of two courses each with a rusticated-like appearance. The tops of the gable walls feature large cornice boards. The house has 1/1 wood windows with crown moldings and wide overhanging, raked eaves covered with beaded boards. The roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The front (north) façade features a side-loaded porch on its east end with brick walls and wood posts. The porch posts carry wood beams, with carved ends, that carry the east-facing second story gable that projects over the porch. The entry is located in the back wall of the porch (north- 27 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1998 28 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1998 29 “Enlarge Factories” South Bend Tribune. 2 March 1907. Pg. 3, col. 5