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 24 512 South Street. Gable-front, c.1885/1960, Non-contributing. Seen in far left side of photo 22 516 South Street. Gable-front, c.1900, Contributing. 604 South Street. Rosencrans House, Free Classic, c.1900, Contributing. Right side of photo 23 Garage, Contributing. 608/612 South Street. Duplex, c.1900, Contributing. Middle of photo 23 The two-and-a-half story brick building has a belt course of projecting brick at the bottom of its first story and features side-gabled parapet walls. Brick chimneys are centered in the side-gabled walls. The building has modern 1/1 vinyl windows with rusticated stone sills and segmental arches composed of brick. A tall frieze board is at the top of the second story walls. The eaves are terminated by corbels and the house is divided in half, east/west, by a brick wall that rises through the roof, similar to row houses. The roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The front (north) façade features a wide wood porch with Doric columns and balustrade composed of pickets. The columns carry a low-pitched hipped roof. Two sets of wood steps lead to the porch and three metal entry doors on the back wall of the porch. One is located in the west half of the façade, with a 1/1 window to its east. The west end of the west half features a projecting two-story bay with pairs of 1/1 windows in the first and second stories. The east half of the façade features two metal entry doors; the west door has a wood transom and leads to the second story. Pairs of 1/1 windows are in the first and second stories in the east end of the façade. A brick pilaster that forms the dividing wall projects from the second story façade and has 1/1 windows that flank it in the east and west half of the building. A dormer with a gabled roof and pairs of small 1/1 windows is in each half of the façade. The dormers are covered with vinyl siding. The property was the site of Jackson Lumber Company, later South Bend Lumber Company, during the 1880s into the 1890s, after which time it closed, and its large frame buildings razed by 1899. This building and the other houses on the block east of Rush Street were constructed after that into the early 1900s. This building was likely new in 1902 when John Rush offered units for rent in October of the same year. 614 South Street. Free Classic, c.1910, Contributing. Left side of photo 23 Garage, Contributing. 616 South Street. Four Square, c.1910, Contributing.