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 9 South St. Joseph Street., east side, going south 508 St. Joseph Street. Gehring House, Free Classic, 1901, Contributing. Left side of photo 05 The tall two-and-a-half story house features a brick foundation and porch piers, capped with stone, and vinyl siding. The house has 1/1 wood windows trimmed in aluminum and feature simple crown moldings. The steeply pitched roof has cornice returns, capped with shingled eaves, and is covered with asphalt shingles. The front (west) façade features a large, front-gabled wall and a narrower, projecting two-story gabled section on its north half. The façade has a full-width porch with wood floor and rows of Doric columns on brick piers. The columns carry a lintel and low-pitched hipped roof. A gabled section with cornice returns supported by pairs of modillions is over the porch entry on the south half of the façade. A wood entry door with art glass window in its top is in the south half of the porch’s back wall. A large 1/1 window is centered in the projecting section’s first story. A pair of small 1/1 windows is in the south half of the second story. A group of three windows, narrow 1/1 windows flanking a wider 1/1 window, is centered in the projecting section’s second story. The bottom of the gabled walls flared out slightly. The main gabled wall features three narrow wood windows that stair-step up the wall to the north. The projecting section’s gabled wall features a grouping of three windows, a small 1/1 window flanked by short single-lite windows. The house was constructed in 1901 for John and Mary Gehring. The couple moved to South Bend from Niles, Michigan in 1901 when John Gehring began his association with the George Wyman & Company dry good store. Mary Gehring died in 1918 and John remarried Louise Decker in 1919. At the time of John’s death in 1943, he was chairman of the board of Wymans. Louise Gehring remained in the home until her death in 1958.7 510 St. Joseph Street. Queen Anne, 1894, Contributing. Middle of photo 05 516 St. Joseph Street. Queen Anne, c. 1900, Contributing. Right side of photo 05 518 St. Joseph Street. Free Classic, 1899, Contributing. 522 St. Joseph Street. Queen Anne, c. 1900, Contributing. 526 St. Joseph Street. Queen Anne, 1896, Contributing. Left of middle in photo 03 Concrete block garage, c.1910, Contributing. 7 South Bend HPC Survey Card, 1979, rev. 1988, 1998