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CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT • APPLICATION -- 1997-1027 PROPERTY -- 201 West North Shore Drive South Bend, IN OWNER -- Thomas & Joanne Broden DESIGNATION -- LHD-WNS RATING -- Significant S/12 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT This house was built by Solon & Clara Rider in 1906. They purchased the lot from the home Improvement Company in 1904 for $2,350.00. Mr. Rider was born in Watertown New York on July.28, 1867. He moved to South Bend in 1893 and started a successful shopping mall. His abilities and commercial genius' quickly brought him to the fore front of South Bend's business community.. He became the Vice President of the American Trust Company, the Michigan Avenue Addition Company and the South Bend Watch Company. However. Mr. Riders main method of employment was as the Vice President of the Home Improvement Company. The company was organized by a group of 27 men on April 2, 1903. The object of the association was to buy, sell, lease, exchange, plat, develop, improve and erect buildings. Mr. Rider and his wife lived in the house until 1912, he sold the house to Rome C. Stephenson on July 15, 1913. Mr. Stephenson was born in Wabash,.Indiana on February 29, 1865. He studied law and by age 21 was a practicing attorney. In 1904 in Rochester, Indiana he • founded the Rochester Trust and Savings Company. However, by 1908 he had been talked into moving to South Bend by J.M. Studebaker and Jacob Woolverton. Upon his arrival he became the Vice President of both the St. Joseph County Savings and the St. Joseph Loan and Trust. Mr. Stephenson also became active as the president of the Indiana and the National Banker's Associations. He died on December 5, 1934 at which time his business, the St.- Joseph Loan and Trust, became the executers of his will. They sold the house and other assorted properties in -1936 to Louis K. Manley for $9,500.00. Mr. Manley was the manager of the Studebaker Corporation Branches. He only resided in the house for 3 years, selling it to Jacob Gilbert in 1939. Mr. Gilbert, a graduate of Notre Dames Law School, was an attorney and real estate developer. He lived in the house for eight years, selling to Charles Price in 1948. Mr. Price was a University of Notre Dame professor who owned the house until 1954 when he sold it to Mabel Place Ziegler. Mrs. Ziegler came to•South Bend in 1887 at the age of two. She married Granville W. Ziegler, the president of the South Bend Lumber Company and National Lumber Company, in 1905. Mrs. Ziegler was'active in many local women's organizations and was the founder of the Garden of Fragrance, located in Leeper Park. In 1955 Mrs. Ziegler made her daughter, Marion Ziegler Brown, a co-owner of the house. Mrs. Ziegler lived in the house until her death in 1968, at which time one of her sons, Granville P. the South Bend Postmaster, moved in with his sister until she sold the house to the current owner, Thomas Broden, on June 2, 1970. PROPOSED CHANGE • Applicant proposes to install similar ornamental iron railings to the existing railing nearer the front door on the terrace steps located in the front yard. They also want to install light fixtures at each stair location. STANDARDS The Preservation Guidelines for West North Shore Historic District state: