138 West Shore Drive - "The Country Store"  

This was part of the original Land Patent filed by James F. D. Lanier of Jefferson county, Indiana on 30 June 1837 was issued the certificate #7339 the East half of Section twenty; Fractional Section of Twenty One; Fractional Section of Twenty Seven and Fractional section of Twenty eight containing 793 32/100 acres.

1872 - A. J. Harris 3916A

1880 - A. J. Harris 154.52A

1898 - H. J. Murry 26.08A [John H. Murray]

1900 - John Murray Plat

1908 Jno. H. Murray 26A & Murray Subdivision (Lots on Lake front in pink)

1908 - April 6 - John H. Murray has sold 25 acres at the south end of the lake to George Busart fot $1,500 and has rented the house and barn to another party for the summer.

1908 - April 6 - John Murray, who sold his farm south of the lake, has moved to Waukegan, Ill. His son Alvin, a senior in high school will remain here until the close of the school year.

1908 Dec 10 - A Victim of Incendiaries

The John H. Murray cottage of rhe lake shore south of the Arlington was destroyed by fire yesterday morning.

Ezra Blanchard discovered the fire bewtween 3 and 4 o'clock while going to meet the 4:30 traind at Hibbard and notified Gilber Hosimer, a relation of Murray and cartaker of the property

Hosimer went to the scene of the fire and remained until after daylight though unable ro do anything toward saving the place. So far as known these two men were the only persons who saw the fire.

The fire, when discovered by Blanchard, was blazing up the outsire of the house. Hosimer found the trackes of two men in the snow leading from the house to the railroad.

The house, a story and a half cottage built ago built two years ago, was insured for $1,300. A small amount of funiture left in the house was insured for $100.

The barn on the place was set-on fire Oct. 1 and destroyed. Tracks of two men were left of the ground at that time.

1915 - Feb 25 - The Walkers are putting up another cottage on the former John Murray Place at the south end of the lake. Ther are already two cottages there. The new building will be two stories in height and will contain nine of ten rooms.



1915 - July 5 - L. G. Walker is building an eight-room house on the lake shore in the Murray plat at the south end of the lake .

This property was part of the L. G. Walker's Boathouse property, which is next door at 140 W. Shore Dr.

Other views of the L G Walker Boathouse property.

1930 - Rovel, Lloyd

1956-61 - Llyod N. & Ora F (Rinesmith) Rovell The original house pictured here in 1908 and was moved to this lot when the large house, now owned at 140 W. Shore, was built by the Walkers. 1958 Lake Directory - 138 L. G. Walker Boat House - 138 West Shore Drive, Culver.

1964 - Feb 12 -The Lake Water - ...James Rinesmith formerly of Marion. Ohio, retired from Navy, is building a combination garage and grocery store on the Walker corner west end of lake . . . Listed as 100 W. Shore Dr. 19__ John Trp I think this is the garage and extra room on the lot of 138 W. Shore Dr. If so it is the former grocery store ran by the Walker family and the Bait shop that Jim Rinesmith ran for several years. It was not listed in 1993 and was not listed in the 2005 directory either. 1964 - June 4 - The Country Store opened for buisness 1965 - February 25 - this ad was found in this issue of the Culver Citizen

1979-91 - James & Lillian Rinesmith


The garage and small rental or guest apartment above was once a small grocery and you can see the main house in the back ground. The grocery was probably first ran by the Walkers, & Rovell's and then Jim Rinesmith supposingly ran started a small bait and snack shop out it when the "boathouse" next door was closed down but both these were never ran out of the house it self as others have implied.

When the boat house went out of business it its said that Jim Rinesmith built his aunt Ora Rovell a little cottage across the road where she resided until she passed away. That little cottage has since been torn down.

Just when it was converted to an apartment and garage area is unknown but it was before the early 1970's.

For years Jim Rinesmith worked part time for Bill Snyder in the Culver Hardware.

David Burns done the seawall or the repairs of the existing seawall at this cottage as well as the orginial stone work at the Walker Boathouse next door when Frank Malkowski (140 W. Shore Dr.) owned the cottage as well as the cottage next door (160 W. Shore Dr.) to the boathouse then owned by Chet Evers. All were done the same year and in succession of each, pictures were taken of the shore line and work in progress.

1991-Sep. 1992 - Robert H. Jr. & Diana L Mitchell (Dr.)

Sep 1992 - 2011, jul - Diana Lee Mitchell Rev Trust , Dinana Mitchell

Demolition of old cottage has started sometime before 29 June 2009 by 18 July 2009 the house and the garage/apartment were completely torn down - all that reamins is the footings it seems for the house and he concrete driveway for the gargare/apartment. Construction of new dewlling started Nov. 2009.

Lot No. 9 Lot No. 8 in Murrry's Subdivision
South half of Lot No. 8 in Murrry's Subdivision a part of Lot NO. 3

2011, Jul - 2011, Jul Robert H. Jr. & Diana Lee Mitchell (Dr.)

2011, Jul-2011, Sep - Robert H. Jr. & Diana Lee Mitchell (Dr.) (combine property)

Lot No. 9 and the South half of Lot No. 8 in Murrry's Subdivision in Section 26 and part of Lot NO. 3 in Section 28, all in Township 32 North, Range 1 East, Union Township, Marshall county, Indiana, described as follows: Beginning at the Southwesterly corner of Lot NO. 9; thence North ) degrees 00'00" East along the Easertly line of West Shore Drive a distance of 87.18 feet to a found iron pipe; thence South 84 degrees 44'04" East 177.32 feet to the Easterly line of said Lot NO. 8; thence continuing South 84 degrees 44'04" East 18.77 feet to the shoreline of Lake Maxinkuckee; thence South 11 degrees 59'21" East along said shoreline a distance of 22.27 feet; thence South 7 degrees 47'59" East along said shoreline a distance of 67.87 feet to an Easterly corner of said lot No. 9; thence continuing North 84 degrees 34' 40" West 177.88 feet to the point of beinginning, containing 0.41 of an acres, subject to all easements, right-of-ways and restrictions of record.

2011, sep.-2012, Jul - Diana Lee Mitchell Rev Trust , Dinana Mitchell

2012, Jul- 2012, Aug. - Robert H. Jr. & Diana Lee Mitchell (Dr.)

2012, Aug.-2013 - - Diana Lee Mitchell Rev Trust , Dinana Mitchell

2023 - Aug 27, 2023 MARSHALL COUNTY, ind.- Multiple crews are battling a fire near 100 block of West Shore Dr. in Culver. A call came in around 3:54 p.m. reporting a lake house fire. According to Marshall County Dispatch there's no reported injuries. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, stay with ABC57 for more details.