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"r NH Farm 104064 OVd Amro W NQ 1076001/ c� United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet E 16 East Bank Multiple Property Listing Section number Page St. Joseph .County, Indiana new artesian wells and hydrants around the city. This provided adequate water pressure to all areas and led the way to a reorganization of men and materials. In 1886, the department became a professional one, with a central fire station and seven hose houses. By 1906, the East Bank was served by two new brick fire houses (No.s 3 and 7) both of which represented substantial investments by the city in services for the residents:36 Both of these buildings survive, although not as active fire stations. Churches and schools also served the East Bank population during this era. As previously mentioned, the Sunnyside Presbyterian Church in the East Washington Historic District, is an outstanding example. Serving the German population, many of whom were employed in the various industries, was the Zion Evangelical Church and School, a part of the Howard Park Historic District, and St. Joseph's School is an outstanding example of early twentieth century parochial schools in the East Bank neighborhood. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, South Bend, • like many other communities in the midwest, began to pay greater attention to the matter of the "city beautiful," a nationwide trend. In 1910, Rolland Adelsperger, Secretary of the South Bend Architectural Club commented in a regional architectural publication: "Yesterday, America was a country of cities in the making, .. whose every thought was of growth. Today it is a country of cities that have grown and acquired wealth and power. Like.the successful man who builds himself a new home, they are now seeking to order themselves with greater reference to beauty, comfort, convenience and health." 37 Adelsperger championed city planning, to systematize the work of beautifying the city and improving the ways it functioned. He anticipated the work of the noted Landscape Architect and Planner, George E. Kessler who was hired by the new South Bend Park Board sometime around 1910. The latter body had'been appointed with the express purpose of maintaining city parks and establishing a boulevard system. The ambitious plan which Kessler produced in 1912 recommended a number of new parks, and a series of parkways. South of the East Bank area he suggested a river parkway which would connect to Howard 36 Howard, pp. 379, 381. 37 Rolland Adelsperger, "South Bend -- Its Possibility", The Ohio Architect • and Builder, Vol XV, No. 5, May, 1910, Cleveland, Ohio: The Ohio Architect & Builder Company, p. 9