856 Forest Avenue

  • Date: 1890
  • Style: Gabled-T
  • District: Chapin Park
  • Rating: Contributing

This property remained in the Chapin-Lamont family until 1941. Edward Chapin had the house built around 1890 as an investment property. In 1910, he moved to this house with his daughter, Pearl. She died in 1914. In 1916, Edward married Leonora Lamont Chapin, the niece of his first wife. They lived here until their deaths in 1928 and 1941.

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856 Forest Avenue

Image credit: Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County

Image credit: Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County
Image credit: Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County