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0 Request to landmark 111 Office received a letter from Elizabeth Lauber dateNfily (March) 15 200 requesting that her property located at 103- East'Waync`305 S. Eddy be placed on the historic preservation register (land-niarked per conversations). The property is currently located in the Howard Park National Register District and rated survey as Contributing in the 2005 City Survey. The gable front housc teas built is 1882 of common bond yellow brick on a cut fieldstone foundation. On the September 1988 survey card it was noted that the original porch was removed and replaced with a concrete stoop and steps with a metal railing. TIIQ W Indows and door.-; hive also been replaced with modern material. - [*here was a modern entrance andziddition to the east side fthe was added on the west side. 'file alterations were noted can the survey-card as Major. When staff visited the site it Nvas noted that the original window openinus in the foundation ' idation had been bricked tip with matching yellow brick. So, although tile building is 127 nears old and built from Notre Dame brick there is nothing in its architectural style or construction method that would warrant a change in its rating to Notable or Outstanding. That being said, the property has been connected with several families of note. The original purchaser and owner of the original 2 was Sorden Lister whose faillily is considered one of the early pioneer families in St. Joseph County after arriving from Delaware in the 1830s. lie served as I" Ward Councilman and postmaster. In 1957 Dr. Agatha INI, Willielm purchased the house and remodeled the place into her office with all apartment upstairs. Dr. Wilhelm's status as to physician and a wife and mother in the nild twentieth cen tury could a lso be used as a rationale, Dr. Willielm ]ell the property in 1 to her daughter, Elizabeth Lauber, M.D. This vas also used as an office by Dr. Lauber Drs. Wilhelm and Lauber are related both by blood and marriage to J. C. I—Mber foundet of J. C. Lauber Company of South Bend.