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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Application Number: 1999-0701-E Property Location: 524 North St. Joseph Street - South Bend IN 46601 Property Owner: Memorial Hospital Landmark or District Designation: North St. Joseph St. Local Hist. Dist. Rating: non -cont. Key Number: Survey Number: none assigned Statement of Significance & Historic Context Seth Hammond sold all of Lot 64 to real estate man Arthur Keltner for eight -hundred - dollars in March of 1904. Mr. Keltner sold the lot plus the new house he recently constructed on that lot to Josiah Keltner for two -thousand -five -hundred -dollars in August of 1904. Josiah Keltner rented out the house until 1907 when he sold it to Dora Schafer for two -thousand -six -hundred -dollars. Miss Schafer was born in Plymouth, Indiana in 1884 and eventually married Clarence Brown. She rented the house out until 1921 when the house was sold to Benjamin Fetter for seven -thousand -dollars. Mr. Fetter sold the house one month later to business mogul Samual M. Robinson. Mr. Robinson sold the house one year later to the Workingmen's Building & Loan Association, who then sold it to Mary Snapp, the year was 1925. Mrs. Snapp was the widow of C. C. Snapp. She lived in the house until 1927 when it was then sold to James Godshalk. During his one year ownership the house was vacant. He then divided the Lot. The western half contained the house which was sold to Lulu M. Gemberling in 1928. Miss Gemberling was born in Ohio in 1878, she came to South Bend by way of Three Rivers, Michigan where she taught school. In South Bend she owned and operated a beauty salon and rented out the house. She owned the house until 1942 when it was sold to Hoy & Jeannie Carroll. Mr. Carroll was employed in the maintenance department of the Tower Building. They lived in the house until 1949 when they moved to Arizona. Page: 1