Biggs House

705 Riverside Drive

  • Date: 1923
  • Style: American Foursquare
  • District: River Bend
  • Rating: Contributing

Bertha Biggs purchased this property in 1922 and built the house a year later. She was born in LaPorte County in 1863 as Bertha Pettit. She moved to South Bend in 1915 and married Lewis Biggs, and she later converted the building into a boarding house.

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705 Riverside Drive

Image credit: University of Notre Dame Architecture Library

Image credit: University of Notre Dame Architecture Library
Image credit: University of Notre Dame Architecture Library
Image credit: Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County
Image credit: Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County