303 State - "Old Brick"

1910 - March 4 - The old Kreuzberger beer garden at Culver was sold yesterday to Samuel Medburn of Culver for a consideration of $5,000. - Saturday Logansport Daily Reporter.

1910, March 10 - MedBourn Buys Valuable Place

S. E. Medbourn has bought the Kreuzberger property on the lakeshore near the depot.

The consideration was $5,000, which is cheap. The property includes a block of well timbered high ground overlooking the lake, with the exception of the lot and building owened by T. E. Slattery

On the land is a two story brick building now occupied as a lunch and pool room down stairs and living apartments up stairs.

A year or so ago the Kreuzberger estate asked $12,000 for the property

When Mr. Medbourn was told that there were rumors that he intended to erect a hotel on the property, he replied that such a move had never entered his head.

1910, Mar 24 - S. E. Medbourn is replacing the wooden porch on the front of the Kreutzberger building with one of cement. He will also put a new slate roof on the building and give the whole ca coat of paint.

1913 - Dec. 13 - Sam Medbourn is clearing up the old Krouzberger block, cutting out the underbrush and superfluous trees. The frontage along the railroad track is being filled in and the cement, walk will be continued to the top of the hill. - Citizen

1914 - Pool Hall - by the 1914 Sanborn Map

1916, Aug 10 - Looking for Liquor

Two resorts, managed and patronized by colored people, were raided last week Wednesday night on information filed by some person yet unnamed.

Prosecutor McKesson came form Plymouth with four deputy sheriffs and accompanied bt MarshallVanMeter vistied "The Brick" (the old Kreuzberger Park Place) and the pool room on Scott streetabout 10:30.

"The Brick" is occupied downstairs as a refrehment resort and as a rooming house upstairs

Both places were thoroughly searched for liquors with the result that in "The Brick" about four barrels of near beer were found in the public room and a number of bottles of beer and whiskey in the private rooms.

At the pool room some beer and whiskey in bottles were found.

A sample of the near beer has been sent to Indianapolis for analysis to determine its strength.

No arrests were made as the real beer and whiskey were not in sufficient quanity to indicate that they were on sale.

1916 - Sep 30 - S. E. Medbourn is remodeling the "Old Brick" in the former Kreuzberger Park into a residence for himself and his wife next winter. The lower story is being transformed into four living rooms and bathroom, a furnance will be put into heat the whole building and electric lights will be installed. It is Mr. Medborn's present intention to build hemself a bungalow next year in the Medbourn & Lenon Vandalia Park Addition.

1919 Apr 23 - S. E. Medbourn has removed his household effects from his late residence. The William Swigarts will occupy the rooms and will fit up their apartment in the second story for rooming patrons.

1919, May 7 - A New Rooming House

The old Kreuzberger brick building now owned by S. E. Medbourn, is undergoing many excellent changes which will make it an attractive and conveniet rooming house. A bathroom is beining installed in the second room, is being repainted, the lattice-enclosed addition in the rear will be converted into open-air sleeping appartments, and the basement will be fitted up as a laundry with soft water brought in from the lake by an engine.

The exterior of the building is being painted buff with white trimmings.

The Swigart family will occupy the lower story, leaving the upper story for roomers. Already Mrs. Swigart had applications.

The building was erected as much as 30 years ago [1889] by the Kreuzbergers of Logansport and was used as a saloon, bowling alley and summer garden up to about 11 years ago [1908] when saloons were voted out under the local option law. - Citizen

NOTE Antone Meyer of Terre Haut Built it, Krueberger bought it from him see Meyer Beer Garden Park

1922 - Lot #7 Probably at one time Outlot 3 was a part of Kreuzberger's and the 6 lots on/facing Toner Ave. that are labeled Kreuzberger's Addition were as Part of Kreuzberger Park before he established the Addition in 1899

1924 marked as "D" it is the building on the right bottom corner

1931 - Jul 15 - In the "way back when" days they made real paint. Carl Lasch, who is restoring the color on the old Kreuzberker building now owned by Rex Mawhorter, says that in places the original 40 year old paint if washed would look fairly well.
1932 - Jun 29 - Mr. Sammert, who occupies the Mawhorter rooming house (formerly the Kreuzberger building) has made a noticeable improvement of the grounds by installing two flower beds, bordered with rocks and sod and planted with blooming petunias and geraniums - Citizen

1933 - Dec 6 - "The Old Brick", as the Kreuzberger amusmement resort was known to all lake visitors of a generation ago, now occupied by the Ramsey family as a rooming house, has been Christened "Lake View Place", and is indentified by an attractive electric sign.

1937 marked as "D" it is the building on the right bottom corner

1946 -1952-1965 Mawhorter Apartments - J . Rex & Mary Mawhorter; they resided next door at 307 N. State

Janet Lynn Hand writes: We always stayed at the big house on the end of state street, near the railroad tracks, managed by the Mawhorters (sp.?). A very nice old couple, man's name was Rex, I think. this would be in the 1950's and 1960's.

1960's, 1970's - Jack & June Spencer

Sara Bramfeld Gedrimas writes:

It's the house right next to the park and next to Spencer's, with the white pillars. It was in disrepair but it was awesome! We rented with the Peterson's and it had 3 cabins on the west that came with it. Someone else bought it 30 years ago and it is now a private residence. Their pier is down the hill by the pipe with the spring and that property used to be owned by the RR. The tracks ran right through the yard on top of the hill and the bridge was just to the west and headed into town. The bridge was about 30 feet off the ground and you had to walk on the ties and could see the ground between them. It was scary and I can remember what it was like as though I was on it yesterday!"

1979 - 1982 - Harry L & Donna Dale

In the late 1970's Harry and Donna Dale bought it and started to restored it.

In 1984 the Marshall County Historical Society recognized it as a historical structure. Below are photographs of it while the Dale's had it and recent times.

1982__ -1987? - Donna Dale

Split off PRC SW1/4 INT WLN STSTE ST WLY R/W LN in 1987

1989-93 - - Doug Coursey

May 1995 - First National Bank of Warsaw

?-9 Dec 1999 - Robert B. Volkert & Joan Stanley

9 Dec 1999-2015 Jim and Diane Greene

What remains today; the surrounding are aonce as a part of it 101.5' S SE COR LOT 1 KREUS ADD S 48'

A part of the Southwest Quarter of Section 16, Township 32 North, Range 1 East, Union Township, Town of Culver, Marshall county, Indiana, and a part of A. D. Toner's Addition to the Town of Culver, being more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a found iron pipe located 101.40 feet South of the Southeast corner of Lot No. 1 of R. Kruezberger's Addition to the Town of Culver. on the West right-of-way line State Street (60 feet wide) thence South 0-52-18 West along said West right-of-line a distance of 44.88 feet the Westerly line of the former Terre Haute and Logansport (Vandalia) Railroad right-of-way: thence South 29-00-00 East (record bearing) a distance of 90.47 feet; thence South 61-51-00 West a distance of 19.62 feet; thence South 29-00-00 East a distance of 31.98 feet to the shoreline Lake Maxinkuckee; thence South 51-08-14 West a distance of 6.57 feet along said shoreline; thence South 58-16-32 West a distance 48.57 feet along said shoreline; thence South 44-11-26 West distance of 20.86 feet; thence North 68-07-56 West a distance of 119.54 feet to said former Westerly railroad right-of-line; thence Northeasterly along said former Westerly railroad right-of-way line a distance 15.46 feet along the arc of curve to the right with a radius of 1940 feet and a chord bearing and distance of North 45-56-22 East, 15.46 feet to found iron rod; thence North 0-40-49 East a distance 96.10 feet; thence North 2-35-56 West a distance 58.09 feet to a found iron pipe; thence South 88-19-12 East distance of 120.96 feet to the point of beginning.

Meyers Garden ~ ~ Kreuzberger Hotel ~ ~ 303 State "old Brick"