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 7 Studebaker Company for eighteen years. The family moved into their new home in May 1905.1 He lived at the house until his death in 1909; Sarah continued to reside in the home until she resided with a daughter on Bronson Street.2 523 St. Joseph Street. Lonz House, Queen Anne, 1905, Contributing. Middle of photo 01 521 St. Joseph Street. Stephenson House, Queen Anne, 1898, Contributing. Right side of photo 01 519 St. Joseph Street. Stephenson House, Queen Anne, 1900, Contributing. Third from right side of photo 04 Carriage House, Contributing. 513 St. Joseph Street. Charles & Elizabeth Murdock House, Queen Anne, 1894, Contributing. Second from right side of photo 04 The large two-and-a-half story house has a foundation composed of cut field stone and walls covered with large asphalt-covered fiberboards shingles. The house has large 1/1 wood windows with simple trim boards. The steeply-pitched hipped roof features lower cross gables on three facades. The gable walls are covered with wood shingles, the bottom course of which has a sawtooth bottom edge. The roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The front (east) façade has a wide, projecting gabled section and a narrow section stepped back at its north end. The narrow section features a 1/1 wood window centered in its first and second story. A shallow section of roof with bands of wood shingles divide the first and second story. The wide gabled section features a porch on its north half and a projecting bay composed of cut field stone on its south half. The wood porch appears to be a modern adaptation to the house with square posts that support a wood lintel and flat roof. A wood entry door with full windows is in the back wall of the porch. The projecting bay features cut boulders with a belt course and sill course of rusticated limestone and a rounded southeast corner. The bay has a 1/1 wood window in its front and corner wall. A bands of wood shingles form a frieze above the windows and the bay roof is covered with wood shingles. The second story features a pair of 1/1 wood windows centered in the wall. The gable wall juts out and is covered with wood shingles. It features a two- sided, projecting bay in the top of the wall. The bay is supported by a wood bracket and features 12/1 wood windows in each wall. The top of the gable projects out over the bay and is also covered with wood shingles with a flared bottom course. The house was constructed for Charles and Elizabeth (Welch) Murdock in 1894 on a lot purchased from Mary (Taylor) Nicar for $2200. The Murdocks moved to South Bend from New York and became hardware merchants in the city. Charles Murdock became an officer and stockholder in the Hoke Manufacturing Company which produced farm machinery. The couple 1 “Brief News of the City” South Bend Tribune, 30 May 1905. Pg. 5, col. 6 2 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1979, rev. 1988, 1998