202 S. Main

Sanbron Map- 1906 1) Barber 2) Cobbler

1906 - Jan 4 - Little Place Barber Shop - Fred Murray, barber; First door south of hardware

1906 - Apr 12 - Palace Barber Shop - Fred Murrary, Prop.

Oyler building

1909 - Sutherlin Jewlery Store - E. B. Sutherlin

1907 - New Jewlery store
Just opened up and will be prepared to sell you anything in my line by Saturday. come in and look over my stock. All kinds of watches, clocks, and jewelry work solixited at reasonable prices. Don't go away from Culver to buy untill you have seen my stock. E. B. Sutherlin, located at the Culver Department Sotre


1908 - Feb 13 - Culver sticks anther plume in her helmet by getting a real jewlery store. Mr. Sutherlin will enlarge his field of operations by removing this week into the room vacated by Poor's Barber Shop
1908 - Mar 26 - Mrs. Sophia Wilson of Indianapolis, mother of Mrs. E. B. Sutherlin, is coming to Culver this week to reside and open a dessmaking shop.

1908 - Apr 6 - Mrs. J. H. Wilson is ready for that dressmaking of yours loocated at Suherlin's jewlery store.

1908 - Jul 23 - Do Your Eyes trouble You
H. A. McDaniel, a registered optometrist of Lebanon, Ind., has been coming to the lake for several years for his summer vacatin and who owns a cottage on the lake, has decided to do otwo weeks' work while here this year. He will have his office with E, B. Sutherlin the Jeweler. Mr. McDaniel says that if the people of Culver an vicinity give him a reasonable patronage he will return each summer to do work dirkin his stay at the lake...Mr. McDaniel is not a traveling optician as this will be the only place he has ever done any work outside his own place of business in Lebanon, Ind. Offce hours will be short from 10 to 2 qq,m and 1:30 to 4 p.m.


1909 - Sep 23- E B. Sutherlin moved into the Oyler house on South Main Street today
Removed - I am now nicley settled in my new location in the Oyler building. Come in and see my new stock of South Bend watches, besides a new line of other artices. E. B. Sutherlin.


1910 - Sept 15 - You Can not Get Jewelry - Anywhere as good as I sell for the money. Every article I sell is guaranteed. I have the largest stock ever carried by a jeweler in Culve. E. B. Sutherlin, 1dt house south of Hardware store. 1911 - Sep 14 - The Sutherlin family are preparing to leave Culver after a residence here of nearly four years. Mr. Sutherlin is advised that a change of climate is imperative, and he will go to Colorado, probably to Silverton, in the southwest. ern part of the state, where his brother lives. If the climate or conditions there do not suit he will proceed to Montana where a $35 a week position awaits him at the jeweler's bench. 1911 -Nov 23 - Mrs. E. B. Sutherlin went to Roachdale, Iud., her former home, last Monday. Mr. Sutherlin goes on Saturday to Indianapolis' where he will take a finishing course in engraving, and about the first at the year will leave for the West. He thinks California will be his destination

1911 - Nov. 16 - Werner's Jewlery

A Business Change. Having purchased the store of E. B. Sutherlin, Jeweler, I extend a welcome to all to visit the store and look over the new line of jewelry and give our work a trial. All goods and work fully guaranteed. H. L. Werner, Jeweler.

H. L. Werner, the new jeweler, comes from Morgantown, N. C. His family will occupy the residence which Mr. Sutherlin will vacate next week.

In 1911, Howard L. Werner journeyed to Culver that year and was initially uninterested in starting his jewelry business here, wrote son John in his "Memoirs of One John Howard Werner"

However, John Schilling of the State Exchange Bank talked him into opening up shop here, and that year he brought his wife and children to town to live in the back part of the building, the front of which became his jewelry shop. "The store that my Dad bought consisted of one room about 18 foot square with a hard coal burning Base Burner heating stove," wrote John Werner. "It had two showcases for the display of the merchandise (and) a doorway with a curtain over it that led to living quarters part of the building. This consisted of a combination dining room, living room, and kitchen leading to a small enclosed back porch with sink and a water well hand pump." A stairway led up to the kids' two bedrooms, he continued, and of course there was no indoor plumbing at the time. Werner paid $10 a month rent, he also recalled. He claimed to have purchased the first electric washing machine in Culver, and, wrote John, "I see no reason to doubt his claim since he had two sets of twins born only 16 months apart and that made a lot of washing." Around 1920 or 1921, according to the memoir, H.L. Werner rented a small store across the street in the next block to the north. His jewelry shop held court above today's Cafe Max for decades

Howard Luke Werner Store & dwelling - 1911; Sanborn Map - 1914

H.L. Werner between 1911 and the early 1920s, standing outside the jewelry shop that doubled as his home, at 202 S. Main.

dwelling - 1924-1937 by the Sanborn Maps

1925 - The assinging of postal addresses give ownoer as David SMith 204 Main Street Lot 34

Culver Tailor & Cleaners - Charles & Mary (Werner) Riccardi - 1944- Aug 1977

the house having been razed before or after Ricciardi bought the property - he had a new modern concrete building with a basement built during - 1944 after he had purchased the business from John Drenk, it is said he started the business with his brother-in-law Louis DeAngles who left the buisness shortly after it had opened. The biography written by Mary (Werner) Ricciardi for the 1988 Marshall county history states: "In 1944, charles purchased the tailor and dry cleaning business on north main Street, Culver, from John Drenk."

1945 - MARCH 28 — The Culver Tailors and Cleaners, under the management of Charles Ricciardi, has installed a new dry cleaning system.
1944 - March 15, - Culver Citizen John Drenk has sold the Culver cleaners to charles Richardi, tailor at the Academy, and expects to turn the management of the business over to the new owner this week. Mr. Drenk, who has operated the shop for over 13 years, plans to take a much needed rest before entering some other business.


Charles and his wife later built a new building at the corner of Main and Madison, which they opened in 1947.

1948 - Aug. 15- Work was begun Monday on a new building at the southwest corner of Main and Madison Streets to house the Culver Tailors and Cleaners under the proprietorship of Luis DeAngelis and Charles Ricciardi.

1949 - January 5 The Culver Cleaners have moved from their former location opposite the Methodist Church to their new building at the corner of Main and Madison Streets. All new machinery has been added and a fur porcessing room and fur vault will be added in the spring according to Charles Ricciardi and Louis DeAngelis, co-owners.

This vault is said still in existence today.

He had originally opened the business with his brother-in-law Louis DeAngles, though Louis left the business shorltly after the business had opened.

January 19, 1955 Louis DeAngelis, a resident of Culver for the past 27 years, has purchased the Peter Bergman tailoring and dry cleaning establishment at 113 East Washington Street in South Bend. He has sold his interest in the Culver Tailors and Cleaners to his partner, Charles Ricciardi

A 1950's ad

In 1977, after selling the building to Robert Healy of the Culver Auto Supply, Charles continued tailoring in his home until his death in 1984. - It is also stated that after the birth of their 4th child the purchased the 'Old Duddleston property at 452 South Main Street, Culver and began extensive remodeling and moved into their new home December, 1952.

Culver Auto Supply Aug. 1977 - 1986, May Robert Healy they moved to this location from 180 S. Main St Robert ran the store until his death - having a massive heart attack while working.

Culver Auto Supply Aug. 1977 - 1986, May Robert Healy

they moved to this location from 180 S. Main St Robert ran the store until his death - having a massive heart attack while working.

Culver Auto Supply 1986-Dec. 1992 Rand Healy & Dean Neff Lakeside Auto Parts store Dec 1992 - 1994, Jan - Malcom K & Thelma I McDaniel 1994, Sep - 2018 - Sept 28 - Steven K & Cynthia A McDaniel

Lakeside Auto Parts store 1994, Jan -2018,Sep -Stephen K. & Cynthia A McDaniel before coming to Culver Steve Mcdaniel was a manufacturing engineer in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. 2016 - Upon Retirement in Sept. Steve had to lock the doors because a buyer could not be found for the building or buisness. A sad conculsion to a business that's been a main stay of Culver and there for well over 39 years besides being up the street in the North end of the Wickizer building.

2018,Sept 28-2024 - Nicholas Oscar Voorhees

HOUGHTON COR & AMEND PLAT LOT 34