Reprinted
with permission from the Historic Preservation Commission
Architectural styles in the Chapin Park National Register
Historic District include Gothic
Revival, Queen
Anne, Second
Empire, Shingle,
Prairie,
Tudor
Revival, and American
Foursquare. The district is notable for the integrity
of building styles; quality of workmanship and architectural
detail; integrity of use and scale; and for its distinctive
street furniture, red-brick streets, Victorian lamp-posts
and lushly wooded lawns, some of which are surrounded
by wrought-iron fences.
In
addition to the homes referenced in the history
section, other significant residential structures here include:
720 Park Avenue, a Stick
Style structure built in 1878 for James Dushane, co-founder
of South Bend Electric Company; 417 West Navarre, a three-story
Queen Anne residence with an engaged-tower, built in 1890; and
801 Park Avenue, a Late Gothic Revival structure built in 1885.
The twentieth century is well represented; 730 Park Avenue,
an award-winning Colonial
Revival house designed
by Ernest Young, built in 1911; 308 Lamonte Terrace, a fine
example of the Prairie style from 1912 designed by Austin and
Shambleau; and 708 North Lafayette, another good Prairie example,
designed by Ernest Young and constructed in 1916.
