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HomeMy WebLinkAbout8373-93 Establishng a Historic landmark 710 North CushingORDINANCE No $373 -93 Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana- May 10, 93 Yq Attest: City Clerk IRENE K. GAMMON of Common Council Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Indiana— _ Approved and signed by May 11, 93 iq IRENE K. GAMMON ,^ 9�3 Clerk • ORDINANCE NO. ?373- Y.3 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE AND ESTABLISHING A HISTORIC LANDMARK FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 710 North Cushing IN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. WHEREAS , the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St . Joseph County has petitioned for the designation of the following described real estate as an Historic Landmark under Ordinance No. 5565-73, as amended, to wit: Lot 32 Agricultural Society Addition, also known as Tax Key #18-1057-2453. The improvements located upon said land can be commonly described as 710 N. Cushing Street hereafter referred to as the "PROPERTY. " WHEREAS , the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St . Joseph County has recommended the designation of the PROPERTY as an Historic Landmark to be administered under "B" Standards . BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA: SECTION 1 . That the above described PROPERTY be , and it is hereby, designated and established as an Historic Landmark under Ordinance No. --5565-73, as amended. SECTION 2 . That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Common Council , approval by the Mayor and legal publication. 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Joseph County (HPC) , the HPC voted to send a recommendation for Local Historic Landmark designation of the Woolman House at 710 N. Cushing Street to the South Bend Common Council . The owners , Hazar and Eugenia Garabedian, have provide the HPC with a signed consent for the designation. Based on HPC Local Landmark Criteria [ 1] , the structure is significant and worthy of preservation for at least several reasons : 1. the structure was designed by locally notable architect Walter W. Schneider (1868-1957) ,. responsible for the design of the River Park Theatre , the Engman Natatorium as well as numerous residences and other structures in the region (see appendix 1 for a list of such structures on the South Bend Historic Site and Structure Survey) . The house is a fine. example of Schneider ' s residential design; 2 . the Woolman House exemplifies the early twentieth-century vernacular Prairie form now called American Foursquare by architectural. historians . Its materials and architectural details remain unaltered and the structure. as a whole exhibits a level of craftsmanship and design uniquely characteristic of its period,; 3. the structure was rated in 1987 as Significant (S/11.) on. the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory; it was rated as significant as an example of American foursquare/vernacular Prairie architecture, and.; _ 4. the property is suitable for preservation as a significant contributing structure within an area that contains a notable concentration of unaltered domestic architecture. The attention and care paid to its maintenance and preservation by its owners should be recognized and bolstered by local recognition and protection by ordinance . ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION This house is a reconstruction of an earlier house built circa 1896 . In 1917 the property contained the earlier, smaller structure , a barn and a "[corn? jcrib. " .The house underwent major reconstruction in 1924; the 1932 Assessor card lists the architect for the reconstruction as W. W. Schneider. The structure is a frame house with brick foundation. It is best classified as having the vernacular. form of the American Foursquare . It is two stories with a hipped roof and moderately-wide overhanging eaves . The ground plan is massed, comprising 'a near square (30 ' x 30.5 ' ) , with four rooms on both the first and second floors . It has a one-story porch on the front facade constructed of brick with stone caps . A massive brick chimney is located on the exterior of the north. facade. The house 's integrity is excellent; it has been unaltered since the 1924 renovation. Stylistically the house is associated in a rudimentary way with the Prairie style in its horizontal emphasis (except for the roof) , especially the bandcourse between the stories ; the square porch supports and several sets of narrow, 4 over 4 and 6 over 1 , double-hung windows in groups of three • brother . The brothers were in the grocery business together for at least fifty years with businesses at the above address and also at 312 E. Wayne ( "wholesale fruits") . They also were in business with Charles C. Ward in the 1920s as the Levy-Ward Grocery Company at 401-403 S . St . Joseph ( "wholesale groceries") and 326-33- S . Carroll . [6] In 1942 the Levys sold the house to Marian P . and Dr. Francis A. Turfler. Dr . Turfler was an Osteopath; he received his degree in 1932 from Kendallville College of Osteopathy. He was born in Rensselaer, Indiana in 1905 to a family that ultimately included more than thirty osteopathic physicians . He moved to South Bend in 1935 . He and Marian (Phillips) were married in 1932; the couple had four daughters . Dr. Turfler was elected president of the Northern Indiana Association of Osteopathic Physicians in 1946 and was the president and secretary of American Osteopathic College of Radiology from 1953 to 1976 . [7] The Turflers moved into rural St . Joseph County in the late 1940s and had the house remodeled into two separate apartments . In 1951 the house was sold to Horen Garabedian who moved into one apartment with his mother, Eva , and rented the other . Horen worked for the Studebaker and Studebaker- Packard companies in the 1950s . He also served in the U. S . Army from 1942 to 1945 and was a Disabled Veteran. Horen Garabedian passed away in Fresno , California in 1980; Eva passed away in 1982 . The house remains in the Garabedian family, currently owned by Hazar Garabedian, Horen ' s brother, who worked at Oliver Farm Equipment and for the Oxian Brothers rug business until retirement . [8] F . Holycross March, 1993 Notes 1 . Historic Preservation Commission Resolution No. 3: Historic Landmarks Procedure (July 14, 1975) . 2 . . Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory: Survey Manual for Architectural and Historical Resources (Indianapolis: Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, 1988) : G-3; The Portage Township Assessor Card ( 1932) shows that this structure was built in 1882 (likely wrong, see below) , and that it was "remodeled" in 1924. It also shows W.W. Schneider as the architect; the Sanborn Insurance Map (1917) shows a two story house with a different "footprint" than the present structure, a one and two story barn-like structure and a "crib. " 3 . City of South Bend Summary Report (South Bend: 1982) : 33; South Bend Sites and Structures Resurvey (computer data-base; 1993) . 4 . Plat. Book 3:1, the Agricultural. Society Addition is located on the site where the first county fairgrounds was located on the. Niles Road (now Portage) running northwest out of the city; St . Joseph County Deed Record: 100:450; South Bend City Directories ( 1889-1906) : no structure appears on Cushing until 1896 when Woolman is listed at 826 . From 1898 to 1904 he is listed at 610 Cushing; in 1906 the address. becomes 710. It seems likely that , due to the various address changes occurring during these years as the area developed, these are all the same structure . 5 . Deed Records : 129:89; 145 : 129 . South Bend Tribune (Gish obit . )12-21-34: 2 : 12. Gish was born in Buchanan, Michigan; married to William D. Gish in 1876; two sons , Walter and John. 6 . Tribune (obit ; Louis Levy) 12-15-53: 14; (obit . ; Bessie Levy) 11-10-51 : 10. City Directories.: 1912-1940 . 7 . City Directories: 1943-1950; Tribune: 6-13-46 ; (obit. ; F . Turfler)5-20-84 . 8 . Tribune: (obit . ; H. Garabedian) 2-5-80:34 . City Directories : 1953-1970. 3 and four . The second story is accentuated by contrasting wood siding (thinner width) from that on the first floor. The property also contains a one-story frame garage built sometime between 1932 and 1949 . The 1932 Assessor card shows a rectangular, six-car garage ; it seems likely that this structure was a remnant of the 1917 barn-like building. The present garage is 22 'x 20 ' in dimension, has two bays and a pyramidal roof . There are four fixed windows with six lights (two on the rear, one on each side ; the original doors to the bays have been replaced. [2] THE ARCHITECT Walter W. Schneider ( 1868-1957) designed many of South Bend' s significant buildings from the late nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century (see appendix #1) . His important buildings include the Engman Natatorium ( 1921; 1040 W. Washington.) , River Park Theatre (1926 ;. 2931 Mishawaka Avenue) , the Osborn Building ( 1906 ; 1031 W. Washington) and the Knights of Pythias building (1922; 224 West. Jefferson) . He also designed many South Bend residences ; notable among them is the Tudor Revival style Cutter House (1906 ; 916 Riverside Drive). and the "Bungaloid" Kerner House (1913; 211 W. Marion) . Schneider was born in Chattanooga , Tennessee . He attended Vanderbilt University and later moved to Chicago to begin working as an architect . He came to South Bend in the 1880s and formed a partnership with Oscar Dirham. Their most significant local commission was the Beiger House in Mishawaka. Schneider went into business on his own in 1914; many young South Bend architects spent their early years under his tutelage, including Maurice McErlaine, Ernest Young, and N. Roy Shambleau. [3] HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT The original house here was built circa 1896 for Philip H. and Lydia M. Woolman. It was located on Lot #32 of the St . Joseph County Agricultural Society Addition, platted. in 1871 on the site of the old St. Joseph County fairgrounds . The Woolmans. purchased the lot for $725 .00 in March, 1896 and probably built the house soon thereafter. Philip Woolman made his living as a masonry contractor. Nothing else is known about the couple . [4] In 1904 the house was purchased by Margaret M. Gish (1855.-1934) for $3800.00. Gish used the house as a rental until 1910 when she sold it to two brothers , Jacob and Louis Levy. Louis Levy and his spouse, Bessie , hired popular local architect Walter Schneider to redesign the residence; his conception borrowed heavily from the Prairie style that had a brief tenure of popularity in the teens and twenties . Like many of his contemporaries , Schneider simplified the style and provided the owners with a handsome, modernized residence . The house remained in the Levy family until 1942. [5] When they purchased the house,. Louis and Jacob Levy were co-owners of. Levy Brothers , a wholesale grocery business at 223 S . St . Joseph Street . Louis moved into the house with his spouse , Bessie; his brother resided at 722 Van Buren Street . The Levy brothers were Russian in origin and were of the Jewish faith. Louis was born in 1878 and emigrated to the United States in 1896. Bessie Levy was Austrian, born there in 1887 . She and Louis were married in Chicago in 1909; they had one son (South Bend attorney Nathan Levy) and two daughters (names unknown) . It is not known when Jacob Levy was born or if he emigrated with his Appendix A Mar 3, 1993 W.W. Schneider-designed structures on Survey PAGE I STREET NAME STREETS RATING STYLE TIME PERIOD HISTORIC NAME Colfax Avenue (W) 226 S/11 Sullivanesque 1915 Brown Building College Street (N) 209 C/10 20th Century Functional 1910 Jacobon-Peterson Company Cushing Street 710 S/1I American Foursquare 1901 Woolman House Forest Avenue 865 S/11 Queen Anne 1903 Hatch House Hudson Avenue 1021 C/10 Colonial Revival 1921 Campbell House Indiana Avenue (E) 514 S/11 Queen Anne 1902 Studebaker House Jefferson Boulevard (E) 1017 S/11 American Foursquare 1903 Dr. Gish House Jefferson Boulevard (B) 1031 S/12 Queen Anne 1899 Witwer House Jefferson Boulevard (W) 224 S/11 Neoclassical 1922 Knights of Pythias LaMonte Terrace 310 SRI Prairie 1908 Hansel House LaMonte Terrace 318 C/10 Queen Anne 1908 Miller House LaSalle Avenue (W) 801 C/IO Queen Anne 1921 Mell House Lincolnway West 809 C/10 Commercial 1902 Cohen Dry Goods Marion Street (W) 211 S/12 Bungaloid 1913 Kerner House Michigan Street (S) 501 S/Il Neoclassical 1922 Smith-Alsop Paint Store Mishawaka Avenue 2919 C/9 Neo-Classical 1926 Mishawaka Avenue 2931 S/11 Neoclassical 1926 River Park Theatre North Shore Drive (W) 123 C/9 American Four-Square 1903 Mack House Park Avenue 618 S/11 Prairie 1906 Anderson House Park Avenue 623 S/I1 Queen Anne 1900 Ware House Park Avenue 725 S/11 Shingle Style 1903 Murdock House Park Avenue 816 S/12 Queen Anne 1890 Mann House Park Avenue 820 C/10 American Foursquare 1895 Anderson House Park Avenue 828 C/10 Queen Anne 1892 Anderson House ' Peashway Avenue 302 Sill Period Revival 1919 Jahnkee House Pokagon Street (E) 206 C/10 Colonial Revival 1924 Boeckling House Mar 3, 1993 W.W. Schneider-designed structures on Survey PAGE 2 STREET NAME STREET# RATING STYLE TIME PERIOD HISTORIC NAME Portage Avenue 609 5/12 Free Classic 1905 Keller House Portage Avenue 620 S/11 Queen Anne 1403 Shidler House Riverside Drive 916 0/13 Tudor Revival 1906 Cutter House Riverside Drive 928 CIO American Foursquare 1903 Mitchell House Riverside Drive 944 C/9 Dutch Colonial Revival 1903 Drummond House Riverside Drive 947 C/10 Colonial Revival I907 Didrickson House Riverside Drive 962 S/I2 Period Revival 1913 Clauer House Riverside Drive 1115 C/10 Colonial Revival 1923 Hibberd House Riverside Drive 1201 0/9 Period Revival 1904 Miller House Taylor Street (N) 117 C/10 American Foursquare 1915 Listenberger House Washington Avenue (W) 1031 S/I1 Neoclassical 1906 Osborn Building Washington Avenue (W) 1040 S/12 Neoclassical 1921 Engman Natatorium Washington Street (W) 501 C/IO Nen-Classical 1906 Rush Building Washington Street (W) 502 S/12 Pree Classic 1907 The Manse Washington Street (W) 705 S/II Queen Anne 1905 Corsuch House Washington Street (W) 714 C/9 Queen Anne 1884 Birdsell House • historic preservation commission of south bend and st. joseph county ROOM 1123 COUNTY CITY BUILDING south bend,indiana 46601 (219) 284-9798 March 24, 1993 Members of the Common Council Fourth Floor, County-City Building South Bend, IN 46601 Re: Recommendation for designation of 710 North Cushing Street as a Local Historic Landmark Dear Council Members : After due consideration and having held a Public Hearing on March 15 , 1993, the. Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St . Joseph County voted to send to you a recommendation to designate the property at 710 N. Cushing, South Bend, Indiana , as a Local Historic Landmark by ordinance . Attached for your review is a bill that would do so if approved, and a HPC staff report for your information. The Historic Preservation Commission has received consent from the owners of the property, Hazar and Eugenia Garabedian, for this designation and believes that the property is significant and worthy of protection for the following reasons : 1 . The house is the work of a significant local architect , Walter W. Schneider, that exemplifies the early twentieth-century vernacular form of architecture now called American Foursquare by architectural historians ; 2 . The structure 's materials and architectural details remain unaltered and as a whole exhibit a level of craftsmanship and design uniquely characteristic of the period (1924) . I look forward to discussing this proposal further with you. Thank you for your attention to this. matter. Sincerely, Fred M. Holycross Director AREA PLAN COMMISSION of ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, IN RICHARD S. JOHNSON Executive Director ROBERT W. SANTE Assistant Director 1140 COUN1Y—CITY BUILDING, SOUTH BEND, IN. 46601 (219) 235-9571 FAX (219) 235-9813 ,gizL c2 7- 93 April 8, 1993 Mrs. Irene Gammon, City Clerk 4th Floor , County-City Building South Bend, Indiana 46601 RE: Proposed designation for property located at 710 North Cushing Street . Dear Mrs. Gammon: The Staff of the Area Plan Commission has reviewed the Historic Preservation Commission's proposed designation of the above property as an historic landmark with respect to the relationship of said property to any capital improvements proposed for nearby rights-of-way, easements or properties. We find no proposed improvements that will conflict with this designation. Sincerely, Scott Kugler Planner SK:sr Serving: South Bend, Lakeville, New Carlisle, North Liberty, Roseland and St. Joseph County, IN