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Howard Park Historic District

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MPS
  
East Bank MPS

Area
  
11 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
99000169

Added to NRHP
  
18 February 1999

Howard Park Historic District

Location
  
Roughly between E. Jefferson and Wayne Sts., N. Eddy and the St. Joseph R., South Bend, Indiana

Architect
  
Shambleau, N. Roy; Austin and Shambleau, et al.

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival

The Howard Park Historic District is a national historic district located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It encompasses 27.6-acres and includes 51 contributing buildings, 2 additional contributing structures, and 1 further contributing site (Howard Park, named after state supreme justice Timothy Edward Howard). It developed between about 1880 and 1947, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival, Prairie School, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture and works by architects Austin & Shambleau. Notable buildings include the Sunnyside Apartments (1922), Studebaker / Johnson House (1907), Zion Evangelical Church (1888, 1930), the Works Progress Administration built Howard Park Administrative Building (1940), and Lister / Plotkin House (1882).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

References

Howard Park Historic District Wikipedia