18550 St. Rd. 10  

Section 16 History 1835-1922

The little white house that stood on this corner was tore down in the late 1970's to early 1980's My parents (Alvin R McKee & Reba D (Emery) McKee lived there from about 1953/4 to 1959/60; dad was a farm hand for the Dillon's The layout then - the black circles is approximately where the house stood; the 3 divided ares to the west the south square contained a raspberry patch; the middle area was our garden area & north of it was the Dillon's garden; between the two houses there was a walk way between the two houses about midway between in the garden area from the back door of the white house to the Dillion house which during the 1970-1980 bore the address of 17261 St. Rd. 17 .on the north. The last north square had farm machinery sheds /workshops on it. The white house during this time perion probably also bore a St. Rd. 17 address as front door faced St. Rd. 17. It is doubtfull that this was the lay out of the property back then

and others lived there also among them Carey & Katie Cummins.

Mom and dad never took photos of us nor the places we lived - it was almost as if were were not to exist and I doubt if mothers sister took any that should the whole house and total surroundings of the outside.

It was of bunglaow type, the living room and dining room was on the south the 2 bedrroms were to the north with a bath in between. The kitchen was the wideh of the house on the west end; it had a full attic/sleeping room above the entire wideth and length of the house. The was a cement patio hat spaned the wideth of the house on the west side with a back door wich sat more or less in the north half of the house; and with an outside entrance to the basement (believe their was an entrance to the basement which was combine with the strairway to the upstairs off the kitchen in the southwest corner; there was a small open stone entrance/proch on the southest of the house for the front door. There were two pine trees in front of the porch. There was about 2 foot stone wall that surrounded the properety from the side walk to the front door on the west and to the north to the propery line. Remnants of this stone wall is still in existence today.

The house was razed sometime in the early 1970's

1956 Plat map Section 16 Mildred Dillon 126A & 92A Ida Dillon 48A Leonard Hoffman 19A unlabeled 5A unlabeled 9A unlabeld - upper northwest corner George Hopple

The way it was before 1957-1958. In the background is a view of the Dillion property on the south side of State Road 10 where the Culver Storage Units, the now empty motorcycle shop and the Ten Spot, now empty also is. The houses on the horizon is college Avenue homes.

1961 Plat map Section 16 Mildred Dillon 126A & 92A (Dillon Property) Ida Dillon 48A L. H. (Leonard Hoffman) 19A unlabeled 5A unlabeled 9A

1981 Plat map Section 16 Culver Educational foudantion 112.2A Arthur Dillion Jr. 88.4Aetal - Leonard Hoffman Lutheran Trinity Church 2 unnamed subdivisions Maxinkuckee Highlands (1st & 2nd) unlabeled northwest corner 5.95A - George Hopple (1959) Now divided down as:3.88A , 0.86A,1.21A

1979 - 199_ Bowling Alley & Skating Rink, Bowling Alley / Lounge It sat on the back of the lot where the black dot is - lot in front of building to the south and to the north

199_ Aug 2000- Oszuscik Properties - from mid 1990's sat empty

The Bowling alley torn down and removed Aug. 2000 pavement was doone later but was gone as of March 2001. All that's remaining is the original stone wall that existed back in the 1950's when I lived there as a kid.

Aug. 2000- Feb 2008 - Michael J & Susan E Sheskey (Split property)

.017 A of land was deeded to the state of Indiana by Nov. 2008

Feb 2008 - 2015 Michael J & Susan E Sheskey empty lot. 2.073A

2021, Jan - 2024 - Susan E Trustee - this reflects both parcels the L-shaped was the white house (18550 SR 10) & also MSMM Proptries, LTD at 1940 E SHORE DR & 1954 E SHORE DR

ACREAGE: 2.073 AUDITOR DESC: BEG N R/W SR 10 & W R/W LN SR 17 TH N1-2-W 115' TH N87-38W 222.4' TH N1-2W 276.8' ETC EX