CMA - Superintendents House

Absracted from the "Forgotten cottages " page

1898 - - A. ?Colesaman?/Conzelman - T Conzelman "The Roost"

The Fleet cottage is being moved upon the hill near the T. Couzleman cottage at Culver Park Jun 30 1899 Culver Herald

"The Roost"

A discription of the "Roost" is found in the Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for Indiana For the Fiscal Years of 1913 and 1914 , GEORGE WILLIAM MILES Commissioner Assisted by PRESTON H MILES pg. 93 as follows: Just around the point from the Palmer House is the Roost stone structure built into the high bank so that its roof is level the top of the bluff while its front door is only a few inches the surface of the lake

1903 - Oct. 8 - T. Conzleman, of St. Louis, has sold his cottage, “The Roost,” to G. B. Taylor

1903 - Nov. 26 - Theopolis Consleman to G B Taylor and Emily J Culver, 2 lts adj Lake Maxinkuckee and 2 tracts in sec 15 and 16 Union tp $5000

1905 - Jun 29 - Mr. and Mrs. Griffice, of Indianapolis, will arrive Saturday and open The Roost.

1907 - Sep 19 - Mrs. and Mrs. E. R, Culver will close the Roost and return to St. Louis Firday

1910 The Roost Sold - Landlord Walter of the Palmer House has bought the Roost, E. R. Culver's cottage, and will move it onto his own premises where it will be used to provided additional accomodations for his hotel business. Mr. Culver will this fall erect a new cottage on the site of the Roost

1911 Sep 28 - John P. Walter to E R Culver Lot 15 Morris PLat, Lake Maxinkuckee, $400

Edwin Raymond "E. R." Culver

In the mid 1920's turned it over to the Academy for use as the superintendents house

x 1932 Edwin's widow and heirs, Bertram and his family finally surrendered their holdings to The Culver Educational Foundation, a gift estimated at $6 million.
Thus in June 1932 the Culver 's established the Culver Educational Foundation to assure the future of the academy and control of the Academy was turned over to this foundation completely. Bertram and Edwin at their mother's death had realized that only a non-profit foundation wo uld assure the future of f ulfilling this dream. They had combined all their resources to buy out all the remaining heirs for a sum of $2 million in cash to surrender all claims to the Wrought Iron Range Company and the Culver Military Academy. At this time they started to create the plans for an educational foundation to assure the perpetuity of Culver Military Academy.

Found is that the superintendents residence was at the Culver homestead at 446 E. Shore Dr.

The Farm house was used by the superintendents as their residence before World War II.

CMA - Superintent House. until until 1989

1989 - President Ralph Manuel moved his residence to the East Shore, this campus icon [Edwin R. Culver 's chateau-style residence overlooking the lake] was razed to make way for the Huffington Library, immediately west of the Superintendent’s Home also sat a private residence belonging to the David Braden; had been acquired by the Academy in the early 1930s and the guest house, it too, was demolished to make way for the llibrary.

Moved to the Harry Medbourn Residence on 694 East Shore 1989 - from August 1989 - Aug. 1999

1989 - Aug. 1999 - Culver Educational Foundation - Superintendent's Residence 2000 - This was a very beautiful ranch style Indiana limestone house. I hated to see that it was tore down (-: but I guess it is the trend - down with the "old" in with the new ...

2000 - present - unsure where the head of the Culver Educational FOundation lived or if they from this ti me forward responsible to obtain their own housing.