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Lake Shore Dr. Main Street to State Street  


I have placed the early history, Sanborn Fire maps, plat maps and interesting facts of lake Shore Dr. aka Toner Avenue onto a seperate page.

This part of Lake Shore Dr. is mainly residential - I have only listed those parcels which were once businesses and hotels and are being used as businesses toady.

Northwest Side of Main Street :
___ E. Lakeshore
Empty Lot 1906  -   1937
Boy Scout cabin sat on back part of lot before divided
1956 - (built) - Indiana Bell Telephone Company - 1956-1984, Parent company AT&T 1920-1983
Sometime during the early 1960's the closed their customer service office that was housed in the building - and you could no longer pay your bill there. Personally I cannot remember in being open in 1962 if it was then - as I walked past the office to school each day from Aug. 1962- till summer of 1963 when we moved into the Crabb rental on Main St.
Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. d/b/a Ameritech Indiana- 1984-1999
Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. d/b/a Southern Bell Company/SBC Indiana - 1999-2005
Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Indiana - 2006-2009

southeast Side of Main Street:
104 E. Lakeshore - Odom Funeral Home - Gregory & Karen Odom
103 Lakeshore Dr. -  The Bike Barn  -  May 2009 Don & Janet (Hallig) Baker
114 Lakshore
1947 - 1950's,  -  Dr. George F. Henricks dentist office
1960's., 1970's,  -  Dr. Bieker's dentist office & apartment
Bieker residence & apartment
Bonine rental Apartments (3)

203 Lakeshore Dr. - Culver Bed & Breakfast


19_- May 1983 - Bertha (Mrs. Jerome) Zechiel
She use to rent rooms to academy parents and alumni. She would hire a couple of the local kids to help her open up the 'Sun room' and drag up the wicker furniture and items that were stored in the basement over the winter time and then help haul them back down there in the late fall when it was time to store them again.
May 1983-May 1990 Nei-Mar Inc./Jill (Coit) Steely
Mar 1984-19_ - Culver Taxi & Courier Inc. - Jill (Coit) Steely & Mrs. Richard Skrine.
May 1990-Sept. 1997 - Mary Jane Phifer
Sep. 1997-Nov. 2007 - Carl F. & Christine A. Landskrom
Nov. 2007-2009 - Troy C & Hollie Schultz

Lakeshore Dr. and Lake St.
Lot #12 Vandalia
Anton Mayer and Sophie Mayer
May 39, 1897  -  Right Reverend Joseph Rademacher, Bishop of the diocese of Fort Wayne
St Marys Cathloic Church
The Bishop willed all his property to Right Reverend Henry Joseph Richter, Bishop of Grand Rapids, Mich., to the Rt. Rev. Ignatius Frederick Horstmann, Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, and the Very Rev. Joseph H. Brammer, Fort Wayne, Ind., "to have and to hold in trust for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne."

Of these three trustees, Father Brammer later died. The Right Rev. Herman J. Alerding succeeded Father Rademacher as Bishop (Fort Wayne), who transferred the lot to Edward J. Bergman, of Marshall County, on January 23, 1912
January 23, 1912  -  Edward J. Bergman in August, 1912, erected a dwelling house thereon
304  -    19?? - 1914    Keen Brothers Photograph Studio
      1924 - 1937    dwelling
      1952 - Mar 1990    Walker's Studio  -  "Tom" Thomas K. & Ruth E. Walker
      ?    Jack's Taxi  -  "Tom" Thomas K. Walker
      mar 1990 - Oct 1990    empty lot JED AIR
      Oct 1990 - June 2003    Robert E. & Doris J. Breyfogle
J      June 2003 - 2009    empty lot Robert E. & Doris J./Kathyrn L. Breyfogle

318 LakeShore Dr.
This was a duplex in the 1980's and before Art Fishburn resided on one side and had a welding shop/garage in the garage building on the back of the lot. The duplex was tore down sometime about or before 1993 as in May 1993 the Culver Educational Foundation transfered ownership of the lot and a single family dwelling was built on the lot.

On the West side between Lake and Lakeview Streets Mike Fitterling first opened up his engine repair shop at his parents residence at 311 Lake Shore Dr. in the garage on the back of the property. Later he moved to 105 E. Washington St. where the Ideals Cleaners is and later on to 439 S. Main St. where he bought out Sam Wood's Machine Shop  -  now belonging to Jack & Sandra (Fitterling) Keyser. Mike sold out to Snyder's Motors and went to work for them.

? -  1937  -  Telephone Exchange office (in the first house behind the parking lot of what is now City Tavern) which is 230 Lakeview St.  -  1952/1956

1906 - 1914  -  empty lot  - 
1924 - 37  -  Filling Station  -  on corner of Lakeview and Toner [Lakeshore Dr.]

Culver Citizen 14 Jan 1933
The K & K Oil Company has purchased the B & B Service Station on Lake Shore Drive of William Baldwin. The Station will be operatedby J. A. Smith, who comes from Plymouth. He plans to remodel the station, put in a concrete drive new pumps, and other improvements.

This is an educated guess that this is where the location is for now.

??1933  -  Standard Oil  -  ?  -  April 1933 Burt Alumbaugh
1933  -  Standard Oil  -  April 1933  -  ? Charles Berglund
??

Block on East side of Lakeshore Dr.
between Lakeview & Cooldige Court

415 Lake Shore Dr.
1905 - 1906  -  Hayes & Son Livery  -  Toner Ave  - 


19__  -  D. W. Miller Livery & Feed; Oil & Gasoline For Sale



1924  -  Garage
1937  -  'S' and appears empty lot but has Roofing Ho
1922  -  Liberty Theater  -  1922


1924  -  Bowling Alley on corner of Lane [Coolidge] & Toner [Lakeshore] 1937  -  Vacant

     1937 -  19__    A. R. McKesson Ford Sales


     19__ -  1969    Wicker Ford Sales  -  Ray Wicker
     1969  -  1976    Van Horn Ford Sales  -  'Ron' Ronald & Connie Van Horn


     1976 - 19__    McClure Ford Garage
It was not to long after they bought it that that built a new building at the corner of new St. Rd. 31 & St. Rd. 10 just outside of Argos and transfered all business to there.
     198_ - 1984 - 198_    A & R Motors  -  Ron Tanner
     ? - Feb. 1995_  -  Society National Bank
     Feb. 1995 - Mar. 1996   Donald & Roslin L. Robarts
     Mar. 1996 Jan 2008    Donald Robarts
While Robart's had it they leased it out and several businesses where in the front part, on being a pizza parlor and the back was used as storage. While the library was being constructed and remodeled the library occupied most of the building as temporary quarters.
    Jan 2008 - 2009  -     'Larry' Lorenzo & Joette Surrisi
It was refurbished and now is home of several business:
  • City Tavern.
  • 2008-2010 Mirar Custom Homes & Renovations/Mirar Development, Inc. Suite B

  • KNAPP ADD LOT 15 W 50' - Vacant lot
    KNAPP ADD LOT 15 EX W 50'
    KNAPP ADD LOT 16 EX W 50'

    Lakeshore and Harding Court:
    422 Lakeshore Dr. (North side)
    1895  -  Lake Side Hotel  -  D. G. Walter, prop.
    1898  -  Lake Side Hotel
    1905  -  Lake Side Hotel  -  John S. Bush  - 
    1906 listed as Lake Side Hotel on Sanborn Map Also
    1914  -  Dwelling  -  by the 1914 Sanborn Map
    1924 - 1937  -  'F'  -  and on the back of the lot is a building label Gargage  -  Cars
    19_ - 19_- Dale & Emra Jane Long
    1972 - 19_ empty Lot
    House was built back on lot about 1998
    Apr. 2000 - Aug. 2005 Mirar Development Inc./
    Mike Stallings along with Dean and Sara Jones of Mirar Development Inc. apply a comprehensive approach to build your home. - Crown Point, Indiana. Northwest Indiana, one of the regions leading custom home builders. President Dean Jones

    Aug. 2005 Michael E & Patricia K Stallings
    Aug. 2005 - 2009 Michael E & Patricia K H/W & Melanie A Stallings Sara S Jones & Michael C Stallings