Aug 19th, 2012 by admin
Then known as the Gignilliat cottage — for Culver Military Acaemy superintendent L.R. Gignilliat — and later as the Superintendent’s Home, all but the first floor of this late 19th century structure burned in a March 25, 1918 fire, though there was time to save most of the furniture and belongings from the flames. The building was razed in 1989 to make room for the Huffington Library of today, on the Culver Academies campus.
Aug 19th, 2012 by admin
ABOVE: In 1941, the garage and tenant residence at the Marmon cottage, at 1100 East Shore Drive on Lake Maxinkuckee, burned to the ground. The structure likely dated to the 1880s, when Daniel and Elizabeth Marmon arrived here and established the cottage, today occupied by the Greenleaf descendants of the Marmons. Pictured is Don Mikesell of the Culver fire dept.
ABOVE: Undated photo of Culver firemen at the Vonnegut barn fire on the east shore of the lake.
Aug 19th, 2012 by admin
On Oct. 21, 1978, Lake Shore Lanes bowling alley and the coffee shop accompanying, located at 620 Lake Shore Drive, burned to the ground in a spectacular fire. Dating back to 1953, Jim and Mary Dewitt had owned the bowling alley, which was sold in 1977 to Don and Juliemae Neidlinger. The fire call came in around 1:45 p.m. and firefighters worked until 10 p.m., with damage estimated at $500,000. The blaze, which was fought by Culver and several surrounding fire departments, was believed to have started in the fryer in the kitchen. Earlier in the 1970s, a small fire in the restaurant did some damage, but was put out in time to save the building and businesses.
Aug 17th, 2012 by admin
In 1906, the first commercial ice house operation on Lake Maxinkuckee, opened in the early 1880s by Sterling Holt of the Indianapolis Ice Co., burned to the ground. These shots were taken from across the lake at Culver Military Academy by a cadet. The ice house was located in the depression near South Street and Wabash, south side of Culver.
Aug 16th, 2012 by admin
The entire upper floor of the Culver hardware store at 120 South Main Street was lost in a three-hour, $60,000, April, 1957 blaze, which The Culver Citizen describes as interrupting the “traditional” Easter Sunday noon parade.
Residing in the apartment at the time was the Chatman family, one of several making up Culver’s African-American community at the time. Recalling the fire in a Feb., 2012 article in the Culver Citizen, Geraldine (today Parhm) said, “It was an emotional time. As I remember, everything we had was lost. The owner of the hardware building (Paul Snyder), I remember mom saying how helpful he was.”
Photos here provided by Marj Overmyer.
Aug 16th, 2012 by admin
The Culver Fire Department, which formed in Jan., 1903, began keeping hand-written records which continued through the century. Pictured here is the very first book in its entirety. Read more about the formation of the department and its early minutes here.
Aug 16th, 2012 by admin
Aug 15th, 2012 by admin
The fire which claimed the Ferrier Lumber Company on the north side of East Jefferson Street in Culver was spotted around 4:30 a.m. April 21, 1923. Fire departments from Knox, Plymouth, and Logansport assisted, and Culver’s inadequate water supply forced firemen to pump water from nearby Lake Maxinkuckee. Efforts were concentrated on saving the surrounding homes (one, that of Oliver Morris, was burned, though not entirely). Clark Ferrier burned his hand moving his car to safety, and two firemen were injured fighting the blaze.
“Rain Saves Culver from Flames,” proclaimed the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel of the day. Rain fell “in torrents for about 15 minutes” at around 10 a.m., enabling firefighters to gain the upper hand in the fire, which they finally pronounced likely not to spread by 11:30 a.m. The damage was estimated at around $100,000 to the lumber company, which rebuilt its central building in brick, a structure which stood at the site until the 1990s, when it was demolished and replaced with the Bayside Condominiums.
Photos provided by Craig Hopple.
Apr 12th, 2012 by admin
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Culver Historic Visitor’s Guide, 2012
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