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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 23 larger end brackets and a pair of brackets that carry a pediment that rises above the cornice in the middle of the façade. The city subdivided a portion of the Denniston and Fellows plat to the city in 1886 which created the opportunity for Lemon Keen to purchase lots 1, 2, and 3 in 1891. Keen contracted with William Turnock, who specialized in masonry construction, to build this building which was completed by the end of 1892. In 1893, the east side served as a grocery store and the west side served as a meat market. The second story was used for apartments. The grocery operated under other names as ownership changed but remained an important neighborhood fixture. It was known as the Sherman & Canaday Grocery in the early 1900s and for much of the middle 20th century as Max’s Grocery.31 416 South Street. T-plan, c. 1905, Contributing Left side of photo 20; right side of photo 21 Garage, Non-contributing. 418 South Street. Vanderhoof House, Queen Anne/T-plan, c.1905, Contributing Left side of photo 21 Garage, Contributing. The one-and-a-half story house has a brick foundation and clapboards with corner boards. The house has patterned wood shingles in its front gable as well as a tall frieze board and gable trim. The house has 1/1 wood windows with crown moldings and a gabled roof covered with asphalt shingles. The front (north) façade has a wood porch with turned posts and a balustrade composed of spindles on its east half. The porch features jigsawn trim on its frieze and a low-pitched hipped roof. A wood entry door with window in its top half is in the back wall of the porch. The first story west of the porch has cutaway corners with 1/1 wood windows in the walls. A large 1/1 wood window is centered in the first story. Jigsawn wood brackets carry the northwest corner of the second story over the first story. A trim board divides the first story from the second story and gable wall on the façade. The gable wall features a large 1/1 wood window. The house belonged to Edgar and Ella (Reasor) Vanderhoof in the 1900s-1920s where they lived with their teenage son, Claude, in 1910. Edgar was a foreman for a factory in the city, likely Studebaker, where he was listed as a door hanger for an automobile manufacturer in 1920.32 506 South Street. Four Square, c. 1900, Contributing. Right side of photo 22 508 South Street. Queen Anne, c.1905, Contributing. Left side of photo 22 31 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1977, rev. 1988, and correspondence during renovation work. 32 1900, 1910, 1920 census for South Bend, St. Joseph County, IN