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10/26/1998
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8950-98
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86-98
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617 West LaSalle <br />Historical Context <br />This property is located on the north side of West LaSalle between North Scott Street and <br />North Taylor Street, in South Bend, Indiana. It is described as being lot 3 Studebaker <br />Subdivision to South Bend. <br />The present building was moved to lot 617 W. LaSalle from 404 N. Lafayette some time <br />during the early 1980s. The house proposed for landmark status was built in 1895 on lot 205 <br />O.P. of South Bend, it replaced an earlier structure at this site. <br />Mrs. Evaline Patterson purchased lot 205 of the Original Plat of South Bend from Mr. & Mrs. <br />James Heck in 1872 and built a modest 1 1/2 story frame house. She resided there until 1892 <br />when she sold the property to Charles L. & Emma Goetz for $4,600.00. Mr. Goetz replaced <br />the previous house with the present Queen Anne dwelling. Mr. Goetz was born in Rome, <br />New York, in 1859 and began a trade in the cigar business at age fourteen. He came to South <br />Bend in 1881, and resumed work in the cigar business. By 1885 Mr. Goetz had started his <br />own cigar business which soon employed up to 35 people. The business was named, Goetz <br />Cigar Company, it was located at 307 W. Jefferson Boulevard. Mr. Goetz married Emma <br />Klingel, daughter of a German pioneer, and settler at 404 N. Lafayette in 1895. Mr. Goetz <br />was elected Mayor of South Bend in 1910 and served in this office until his death in 1915. <br />Mrs. Goetz continued to reside at this address until here death in 1932. Upon her death the <br />house was inherited by their son, Philip K. Goetz. Philip owned the house until 1943 when he <br />sold it to Dr. Richard W. & Lillian Holdeman who continued to own the house until the late <br />1970s. This house remained at 404 N. Lafayette until the early 1980s when it was moved to <br />617 W. LaSalle. The structure previously located at the new site was removed along the a <br />garage, around 1972. Prior to its removal the house was owned and occupied by William & <br />Eva Swaney, an assistant Street Commissioner in South Bend. They both resided in this house <br />until their deaths, Mr. Swaney in 1960 and Mrs. Swaney in 1969. The house was then sold by <br />executor, J. Clifford Potts, to Chris A. Brooks in 1972. At some point over the next ten years <br />Mr. Brooks sold the house to Oscar T. Brookins, a professor at Notre Dame, and his wife, <br />Kathryn. It is believed that at some point Mr. Brookins came to own both lot 3 of Studebakers <br />Subdivision and the house at 404 N. Lafayette, and that sometime shortly after 1980 he had the <br />house in question moved to the new site on LaSalle Street. Mr. Brookins owned this house on <br />the new site until 1994 when he sold it to C.O. Phillips, who in turn sold it to the Society <br />National Bank of Indiana in 1996. They owned the house for a year, selling it to the current <br />owner, Jeffrey M. Berndt in 1997. <br /> <br />
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