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 Sections 9-end page 31 An example of the most standard Four Square is the house located at 630 Carroll Street (1916, right side of photo 14) which is a two-story house that features a wide front porch with corner columns of brick. The house has vinyl siding but retains its historic fenestration and hipped roof. An example of a Four Square with Prairie Style influence is located at 211 South Street and was built about 1905 (right side of photo 17). The house has a clear division between the first and second story with a high trim board that separates clapboards from wood shingles on the second story, emphasizing the horizontal. The house has Craftsman style 12/1 wood windows and a wide front porch with clapboard walls and corner columns. A Four Square with Craftsman influence is located at 624 St. Joseph Street (photo 06). The two-story, brown-colored brick house features a brick porch with square columns that appear like layered pilasters. The front wall of the porch juts out and the hipped roof has dormers with hipped roofs with pairs of windows that come to a point in the center and rise above the eave line. Prairie Style The Prairie style, an outgrowth of the Arts & Crafts movement, was born in Chicago with Frank Lloyd Wright being the architect most associated with the style. Wright’s Winslow House in Chicago, 1893, is thought to be the first example of Prairie style architecture. The style is one of only a few truly indigenous American forms and its highest concentration occurs in the Midwestern United States, particularly near the Chicago regional area. The popularity of the style was short lived; it lasted from about 1900 through 1930.34 Its emphasis was on the horizontal with architectural features of the house inspired by the vast expanse of the prairie. Particularly important stylistic features are low-sloped roofs and floor levels acting as vertical planes. Frank Lloyd Wright designed two homes in South Bend, the first was built in 1906 on Washington Street and is known as the DeRhodes House and the second was built in 1948 on the city’s south side and is known as the Mossberg House. The earlier house is more precedential in the examples found in Taylor’s Field. Most of the style’s influence in the district is seen in window and door patterns, broad overhanging eaves, low-pitched roofs, and a general accentuation of horizontal lines. One house in particular, located at 525 Carroll Street, best exemplifies the influence the style had on the district (right side of photo 09). The house, similar in massing to the DeRhodes House, was built in 1910 with a dark, brown-colored brick base, clapboards on the first story divided by a horizontal board from stucco on the second story. The eaves, which extend broadly from the second story, have soffits covered with stucco. The house has a second story bay that juts out in the center of the façade that carries a low-pitched hipped roof that matches the main house. The windows are a mix of Craftsman and Prairie Style design. 34 McAlester, pg. 440