508 Lake Shore Dr. ( 504 Lake Shore Dr. )  

Section 16 History 1835-1922

It also was possibly listed at one time as 514 Lake Shore drive as that number appears on the sanborn map and also as 610 Lake Shore Drive.

Section 16 History 1835-1922

1888 - Meat Market / ?Hotel? - by Fred Keppler of Logansport and was demolished in March 1933 to erect a Phillips 66 gas station and later was the Shell Gas station. It was located on the Northeast corner of Lakeshore Drive and State Street

1889 - Daniel A. Bradley - Bradley Hotel

purchased a place formerly owned by Celia VanSchoiack

1906 - Restaurant - by the 1906 Sanborn Map which shows a large building divided into 2 stores.


1907 - May 2 - D. A. Bradley to E. J. Bradley part outlot 4 Toner's add., Culver $2300

1908 - The plat map does not indicate builds up on the lot for this area

1908 - Jan 16 - Seely L. VanSchoiack has sold to Ed Bradley the lot adjoing the Brabdey hotel on the west for $450. Bradley will erect a building 28 X 100, one story high, to be used as an amusement resort. He had contracted with the Brunswick company for two bowling alleys and tow pool tables and as soon as the weather permits wiill commence laying the foundation for the construction of a fram building. The entire incestement will represent between $2,500 and $3,000.

1914 - Restaurant & Rooms by the 1914 Sanborn Map

1920 - Jul 21 - Hotel Bradley becomes Chasnelle, The Ad states : Now open - throughly equiped and renovated, the former Bradley Hotel, hereafter to be known as "The Chasnelle"...

1922 - Hotel (by plat map)

1924 - The Sanborn Fire Map labels it as the Chasnelle - this is labled as Chasnelle on the Sanborn fire map. David Burns also said this was known as the Paramont Hotel which is confirmed by the Jul 1925 Citizen Announcement name of the Chasnell Hotel has been changed to that of Paramount Hotel... management remains the same... Mrs. A. McLochiln, prop

1933 - March 15 - Kemple to Build Service Station - Homer Kemple - Phillips 66 Gas Station

1934 - Sep - Buys Blue Front - Homer Kemple has bought the front half of Henry Lizenberger's Blue Front dance hall building (formerly bowling alley) which he will wreck and use the space for the enlargement of the driveway to his gasoline station

1937 Sanborn map this is labeled as auto Sales& service and with gas pumps Note - there is also another gas station on the lot across State Street next to the movie theater by 1937; besides the one that has been down on the south east corner of Lakeview Street and Lake Shore Drive since 1924!

1944 - Feb. 2 - Kewanna Man Buys Phillips Station

Lester Van Meter of Kewanna has bought the Phillips 66 Service Station of George Spangler taking possession Tuesday

1944-1952 - VanMeter - Hook - Nelson - Farm Implement Co

1960 Donald P. and Genevieve (Sales) Osborn purschased an interest in the Nelson International Harvester and sold it in 1962 by their biography in the 1986 History of Marshall County.

New Town Hall For Culver

Nelson Equip. Co. Building and Lots fire Purchased" Occupancy June 1

The purchase of the Nelson Equipment Co. building on Lake Shore Drive for use as a new Town Hall was announced by the Culver,Town Board at its regular meeting on Monday night.

Board President Ted Ervin said the total purchase price of $25,000 includes the building which houses the Nelson farm equipment business now being liquidated, and two vacant lots across the street, behind the Shell Oil Co. property.

The price of the building was $23,500, and for the two lots, which will be converted to parking lots, was $1,500.

Possession was promised by June 1. though Maurice Nelson, the owner, indicated that the building will probably be available to the town before that date.

Slated to be moved into the new quarters over a period of several months will be the Fire Dept., Police Dept., Council Chambers, and Clerk-Treasurer's

The Fire Dept. will move first, the board indicated, since it can be accommodated with a minimum of building renovation.>

Later, as space for the various departments is allocated and the interior of the 70 x 80-foot building is remodeled to these requirements,the other departments will be moved.

The present Town Hall on Pl ymouth Street will be taken over by the Street Department as it is vacated by other departments, and the building presently used by the Street Department will probably be sold. >

The present Town Hall has housed the town departments for at least 40 years, according to Ernest Carter, building commissioner, and a longtime Culver resident.

The building has been overcrowded in recent years, particularly the Fi re Department, which has added new and larger equipment..

The purchase price for the new Town Hall will be paid over a three-year period through financing arranged with The State Exchange Bank...

1966, Jun -1976 - Culver Town Hall

1966-present - Culver Fire Station

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