514 W. Mill
Everett E. and Catherine Easterday - farm land
1979-1983
Shirt Shed To Establish Plant At Culver
1985 - Oct 13 - Production will begin in Culver experiment
CULVER The Culver economy will be getting a small boost Monday when production begins
for an experimental, six-month project by the John V. Lucas Co. of Chicago. According
to Rawley Cashen, company controller and vice president of operations, 12 employees
will begin producing drapery, curtain and window-covering fabric samples for Lucas
clients across the country. The firm is leasing the former Shirt Shed plant in Culver.
This is a Six-month test, Cashen said. At six months, well look at - both productivity
results and plant effectiveness. Cashen said employment and production could be expanded
if the project proves to be successful in the six-month test.
Cashen credited NorCen Bank President Eldon Ploetz and residents Bob Tanguy and Joseph
Plankis in bringing the company to Culver. Lucas is leasing the 55,000-square-foot building
from NorCen.
It has been vacant since the Shirt Shed closed in May 1983. - South Bend Tribune
1990-1995 D. W. Wall Covering
c. 1991 -? . They were a sorting and re-wrapping plant for wallpaper that was not sold by other companies and
sold in their outlets at supposingly a discount rate.
In August, 1991, the building saw new life when D.W. Wallcovering moved from Starke County to Culver. D.W. had
outlets in South Bend and Warsaw as well, and was a Christian-owned (by David Weinberg) business whose workday
started with a collective staff prayer. T he company relocated to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1998
? - Marshall Electric.
Marshall Electric Corp. of Rochester for a short period possibly used the building as a storage site.
The company provides electrical equipment. The company manufacture electronic coils, transformers
and auto parts.
?-2003 - William David Weinberg
2003,Jan - Culver's Portside Marina
Four years later, Tom Heineman, who had come to Culver in 1985 to work at the Culver Marina, partnered with
fellow Marina worker Glenn Bailey to launch Portside Marina, renting out the 8,000 square foot building. By
that fall, with 75 boats in its care, Portside had well exceeded its goal of maintaining 50 boats, and the
crew winterized over 250 boats that same year. By 2003, Portside had begun selling pontoon and ski boats,
and manufacturing piers, eventually purchasing the property -- as demands for storage space increased -- that autumn
2003, Nov.-2020,Jun - Heinman & Bailey
2020,Jun. - Thomas Heineman
2020,Jun - G. & D. Enterprises Winamac LLC