<623 Colfax>
- Date: 1895
- Style: Free Classic
- District: West Washington
- Rating: Outstanding
The Emma and Marshall Chapin home is a 2.5-story Queen Anne/Free Classic built in 1895. It served as their residence until 1928. The exterior walls are cut and rusticated stone on the first level with 3" exposed clapboard with corner boards on the second level and attic gables. The open full-length stone front porch paired decorative stone columns supporting the hipped porch roof. Mr. Chapin was the brother of Horatio Chapin, a South Bend pioneer and successful businessman/banker. Mr. Chapin was appointed by Schuyler Colfax to work for the Commissary General of Subsistence during the Civil War.
