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4/9/2008
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9209-01
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27-01
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1031 E. JEFFERSON <br />HISTORICAL CONTEXT <br />This property was part of the large tract of land owned by John Mohler <br />Studebaker since the 1880's. In 1899 he commissioned architects, Dirham and <br />Schneider, to design this thirteen room, Queen Anne style house and carriage house, <br />which he sold to his nephew, George M. Witwer, upon its completion. <br />George Witwer was born in November of 1858 and attended public schools in <br />South Bend. He became associated with the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing <br />Company in 1880 as the private secretary to his uncle, J.M. Studebaker, until his death in <br />1917. He then served the Studebaker family as an advisor and continued with the <br />corporation until 1935 when he resigned in order to devote more time to the Studebaker <br />family business and to personal affairs. He was a director of the St. Joseph Loan and <br />Trust Company and a trustee of the St. Joseph County Savings Bank. Mr. Witwer <br />married Mary Viloette in 1885 and had one son. George Witwer died on May 28, 1942, <br />his funeral was held in this house. Mary continued to reside here until 1945 when she <br />sold it to David Heeter, an inspector for Bendix. He lived here until 1953 when the house <br />was divided up for commercial offices and eventually sold to Robert Place in 1968. Mr. <br />Place converted the house into four apartments, which he rented to various tenants until <br />1979 when it was sold to Peter and Doretta Helmschrott, who sold it in 1988. It was at <br />this time the house and carriage house underwent vast renovations; which included the <br />restoration of the front porch. The property was recently sold to the current owner, <br />Suzeraine Properties Inc. <br />ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION <br />This is a two and a half story Queen Anne style house with irregular plan and <br />rough-hewn stone foundation. The walls are clapboard with corner boards, wood <br />shingles in peaks, dormer and wide wood cornice line. The roof is hipped with slate <br />shingles, front and side gable, gable dormer, bracketed overhang, top peaks with copper <br />finials and copper flashing. The front entry has a wood door, two ionic columns all in <br />deep reveal. The house has one large picture leaded transom, a large fixed sash window <br />with side double hung sash, leaded transom, a first and second story projecting bay and a <br />Palladian window with diamond mutins at west gable. The remaining windows are one <br />over one double hung with the exception of the attic windows, which have diamond <br />mutins. The front porch was removed sometime prior to 1988 when it was sold to <br />Charles and Peggy Jo Trader. Mr. and Mrs. Trader subsequently restored the front porch. <br />It is full length with a slight wrap around the corners. It has eight sets of double ionic <br />support columns and two sets of triple ionic columns flanking the entry stairs, which are <br />concrete. The roof is slightly pitched with a gable facing the entry. The porch also <br />boasts decorative rails with turned members. <br />The carriage house is two-stories tall with a square plan and fieldstone <br />foundation. The first floor is clapboard siding with conerboards and the second floor has <br />4 <br />
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