• Date: 1867
• Style: Queen Anne
• District: West Washington
• Rating: Outstanding

The original part of this house is located in the rear and was built by Abijah Sumption sometime between 1854 and 1867. Abijah was son of George Sumption, the first person of European descent to settle in Greene township (1830). Sumption Prairie was named after George. Calvert H. DeFrees bought the property in 1892 from the Sumption daughters. He enlarged and remodeled the house to its present size to accommodate his large family and his business. Mr. DeFrees was also a member of one of South Bend's oldest families: his father and grandfather settled on a farm west of South Bend in 1835. This Queen Anne home is elegantly styled, featuring a sumptuously decorated front verandah with a bracketed gable entry portal. The walls are narrow clapboard, there is a dentiled frieze board, and a bell cast wall at the second floor line. The steep roof has a small hipped dormer and two very large gable ridge dormers, some with fishscale shingles.

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