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 6 number of non-contributing buildings are modern garages. Much of the district was designated a local historic district under the same name in 1998. A complete list of resources follows: South St. Joseph Street, west side going north Brick street-contributing structure (photos 01-05). 531 St. Joseph Street. Thaddeus & Sarah Taylor House, Free Classic, 1910, Contributing. Left side of photo 01 The two-story house is composed of a large, central cube with a hipped roof and lower, two-story bays facing east (front) and south. The house has a brick foundation and porch, vinyl siding, and historic wood windows with multiple panes in the upper sash over a single-lite lower sash. The windows have simple trim boards and cornice moldings. The tall hipped roof features flared eaves and is covered with asphalt shingles. Notable features of the house include its wide, wrap- around porch on the front and south facades (the house is situated at the corner of St. Joseph and South Streets), a brick chimney in the east half of the south façade and a projecting bay that features a jettied second story in the west half of the south façade. The front (east) façade is dominated by the wide brick porch that wraps from about the center of the façade around to the south façade. The porch has walls and large, rectangular corner columns composed of brick and capped with stone. The columns carry an entablature with rows of dentils and a low-pitched hipped roof. The entry to the porch is centered on the façade and features flanking rectangular columns that support a wide, segmental-arched typanum above the frieze. The typanum features rows of vertical trim boards. The north half of the façade is a projecting two-story bay with hipped roof. Its first story is partially covered by the porch and features a wood entry door with full window. The north half of its first story features a small pair of windows topped by a transom divided into multiple panes. The bay’s second story features a projecting, three-sided bay with cutaway corners and multi-pane upper sashes over single-lite lower sashes in each of its walls. A dormer with a hipped roof and window composed of glass block tops the two-story bay. The south half of the façade features a large, single-pane picture window centered in the first story and a pair of 16/1 wood windows centered in the second story. The house was constructed in 1905 for Thaddeus “Thad” Taylor, the son of Lathrop Taylor, who inherited the field from his father and developed the plat for Taylor’s Field with his siblings in 1893. It is speculated that Thaddeus Taylor may have been the first white child born in St. Joseph County, in 1837, to one of two founders of South Bend. Thaddeus married Sarah Chestnutwood in 1873 and worked for a few early retailers in the city before working for the