105 W Washington St.
This was 109 N. Main
where the Methodist Church
was for decades till in 1955 it moved into new quarters at 511 N. School Street,
where it remains today.
The old church was demolished the same year
The parsoange sat across Washington - where the BP now is at
203 N. Main
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1956 - Jun 20 - Steeple Comes Down with a Bang - Shown here is
the steeple of the old Methodist Church as it was being pulled down last Wedensday
after noon by Don Stubbs with his tractor and with the aid of the Culver Fire truck.
The church was built in 1869 and later remodeled in 1899. Work was begun Tuesday,
June 12, in tearing the building down to make way for a new Northern Indiana Service
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1956 - Nov 28 - New Bank Building for Culver....
We are completing the construction of a modern brick, fireproof, and air
conditioned building on the west portion of the property heretofore know as
the Methdoist church property which will be occupied by the Northern Public
Service Company and
Dr. Norman S. Norris on the main floor, and we are giving serious thought
to completing the basement of this new brick building we have constructed which
will be strickly modern in every way to be used by the public to hold meetings.
Alley Becomes A Street
To widen the alley immediately west of the bank so as to make a street of the same
in order to make the west side of our bank as well as the office of Dr. Norman S.
Norris and the Northern Indiana Public Serivce Company as accessible to the public
as possible....
The front of the lot was yard - with the building sitting on the back of the lot with the
main entance on Washington street, a back door on the southest corner led down to the
basement and I believe another enterance door out on the the alley/parkinlg lot on the
near south west corner.
Also for several years I believe a "Santa Claus House" appeared Thanksgiving weekend
to house Santa for visits from children to make the Christmas wishes known.
1956 - the 109 N. Main St. ceased to exist and the address was changed to
105 W. Washington St.
NIPSCO (Northern Indiana
Public Service Company
1958 - 1969 /70 -
Dr. John
W Oldham, D.D.S
198_- 199_ State Exchange Insurance & SEFCO (State Exchange Finance Company) 1983- 199_
They moved out of the upstairs portion of the bank to allow for bookkeeping
expansion there.
On December 30, 1982, SEFCO filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code and began to virtually be non existent; just exact date it
ceased to exist has not been asertained as yet.
State Exchange Ins. Co. remained in business under that name
until some time after January 24, 1985, when the merger of the merger of
The State
Exchange Bank and Farmers State Bank was consummated and NorCen Bank was
born and the insurance company's name was changed to NorCen Insurance (it was
located a 105 W Washington) and was sold in 1999 bieing purchased by Richard
S. Miller & Sons, Inc of Bremen
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1984 - 1999 Norcen Insurance Company |
1999-2001 - Miller-Norcen Insurance Company
Miller Insurance company of Bremen acquired Norcen Insurance compay in 1999
and thus the name changed to Miller-Norcen
In 2001 they moved across the street to renovated Menser Building at
116 N. Main.
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2001 - building demolished for the new Library Addition
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With this the 105 W. Washington St. address ceased to exist and reverted back to
Main St. using the Library address of
107 N. Main St.
200_ -present
Culver
Union Township Public Library Addition 200_-?