Lake Maxinkuckee Its Intrigue History & Genealogy Culver, Marshall, Indiana

 


Cottage History & Index from 1953 to Present



1953 was the first year that the lake directories were issued and gave a listing of all lake residents (or houses).

This was my "FIRST" working outline of the site along with listings from Lake Directories that were in the Marshall County Historical Society; there were but a few scattered issues from 1953-September 1990 when I started on this project.

From these I have worked backwards and forwards with what I could find; to trying and make a complete listing of the cottages and lake parcels and create a history for each if at all possible.

The label as "non lakefront" is not meant to offend anyone - nor is it meant to be taken that it does not have lake access it could very well have, I have not deleved into that aspect unless it has been noted in a descrption of the property as having a legal access to the lake - the only meaning intended is that the house/cottage and or property is NOT directly located on the shoreline/shores of Lake Maxinkuckee aka "lake side" of the road - or thus directly connected to the Lake Maxinkuckee it means only that there is a road and/or alley betweenit and the lake.

Nothing within is set in "STONE" and everything is subject to change when documentation is found - through deeds, newspaper articles. etc and has over the yeaars and will continue to as I delve further into Lake Maxinkuckee's and Culver's history. This is an ever changing project and site as new material surfaces. It is a never ending project that I will never see completed in my lifetime.

Some topic of interest:



East North of Maxinkuckee Landing

401 East Shore Drive - - Woodcraft Camp & part of the Golf course (16.069A); built in 1963
    79.829A S 1/2 NE


461 (475) - East Shore Drive - Culver Academy Golf Course , 60.080A.

    LOT 3 EX PT W OF RD 35A /26.650A is Golf Course
    N 31.27A LOT 4 EX 20.77A/18.270A is Golf Course
    S PT N 31.27A LOT 4 E RD 6.5A/5.160A Golf course


446 East Shore Drive (480/504) - Culver Farm House / Culver Place - Culver Educational Foundation
Culver Homestead - more pictures and the above history.

    18A this includes the Culver Military Boathouse
    N 1169.5FT S 1549.5 FT LOT 3 & R W RD


521 East Shore Drive Vacant lot - was the CMA Barn - now represented by an empty lot of the west side - burned sometime between 1987 when it was listed in the lake directory and 1989 it was between spring and fall of the year.

A very early photo as it possibly looked from standing on the Golf course area the back side of the barn that was located on the edge of the golf course
    N 31.27A LOT 4 EX 20.77A/18.270A is Golf Course


531 E. Shore - Culver Educational Fundation - non lake front


641 East Shore Drive - Was CMA Appartments North now represented by a bare lot

663 East Shore Drive - Culver Educational Foundation - non lake front Vacant lot




681 East Shore Drive - Knight K. Culver Cottage, built c. 1923 & was purchased in 1935 & turned into the "Golf Club Hotel (House)". (non-lakefront)

Culver Educational Foundation Faculty Apartments (non-lakefront)


686 East Shore Drive

694 East Shore Drive v

728 East Shore Drive

742 East Shore Drive


751 East Shore Drive (non-lakefront)

762 East Shore Drive - House of a Thousand Candles


763 East Shore Drive (non-lakefront)


782 East Shore Drive

811 East Shore Drive (non-lakefront)


814 East Shore Drive "Vonnegut House"


818 East Shore Drive


840 East Shore Drive


844 East Shore Drive


845 East Shore Drive (non-lakefront)


865 East Shore Drive (non-lakefront)


874 East Shore Drive




Peru Club
is said to have been built about 1878.


894 East Shore Drive


898 East Shore Drive

920 East Shore Drive Razed/Rebuilt
.



950 East Shore Drive


953 East Shore Drive - Kur-Cor - (non-lakefront Oberlin Orchard AKA Vonnegut Orchard)


964 East Shore Drive


980 East Shore Drive


1000 East Shore Drive


1012 East Shore Drive


Shady Bluff


1022 East Shore Drive


1040 East Shore Drive

1054 East Shore Drive - Toad House

1070 East Shore Drive - 1952-1953 - R. L. Babcock

    Caretaker cottage of Marmon estate

    1961 - - O. T. Smith
    1979 - 2005- 2007 - - address not listed

    26 March 1958 Culver Citizen:
    Ronald L. Babcock, age 72, lifelong resident of the Culver community and father of George Babcock, manager of the Marshall Co. Lumber Company here, died last Friday at the Miller nursing home in Rochester. Mr. Miller [sic Babcock] lived at 1070 East Shore Dr. on Lake Maxinkuckee where for years he had been caretaker of the Marmon estate there. He was also a member of the Maxinkuckee Methodist Church and the Maxinkuckee IOOF lodge #373.


1085_ East Shore Drive - [1075] Greenleaf Log House Marmon Estate/Orchard House (non-lakefront)

1100 East Shore Drive


1110 East Shore Drive

1120 East Shore Drive

1200 East Shore Drive - 1956-61 - Dewey Mc Farland

    1958 - Dewey McFarland 1200 East Shore Drive, Culver.

    2005-2007 not listed


1206 East Shore Drive - Holly Hill / HOLLY HILL INVESTORS LLC


___ East Shore Drive - vacant lots (Non-lakefront



1207 East Shore Dr. - "Fairview" - Razed 1960's

1236 East Shore Drive - 1953 - Heekin [Not listed 1993, 2005-2007]

1242 East Shore Drive -


1244 East Shore Drive


1249 - 1958 Lake Director - Mrs. Elizabeth B. Crawford 1521 S. Center St., Terre Haute, lnd

1257 - East Shore Drive


1268 East Shore Drive [1266/1274] - Hale (Rental, 1958) - Hattie Alice Hale


1274 - 1958 Lake Directory - Mrs. Hattie Alice Hale 919 S. Fifth St., West Terre Haute, Ind.

1275 East Shore Drive

1290 East Shore Drive


1296 - 1958 Lake Directory - Hale (Rental) - 19 S. Fifth St., Terre Haute, Ind.

1297 - 1958 Lake Directory - C. C. Wynn

-- [1301] East Shore Drive - ? Jul 1998 - (Vacant Lots non-lakefront)

1322 East Shore Drive - Yellow House


1346 East Shore Drive

300 West Shore Drive

324 West Shore Drive

344 West Shore Drive

___ West Shore non-lakefront vacant lot

___ West Shore

351 West Shore Drive

726 Peru Street

722 Peru Street


718 Peru Street

716 Peru Street - Mary Lou Anderson

714 Peru Street
712 Peru Street

708 Peru Street

704 Peru Street

612 Peru Street

610 Peru Street

   


606 Peru Street

604 Peru Street Razed/Rebuilt

602 Peru Street

600 Peru Street -

Daviess Street/Peru Court

These properties for years had the railroad between them and the lake till about late 1970's or early 1980's when it was abandoned and the property owners bought the railroad right-a-way back. This is indicated by a a stip of land decribed as generally: "PRT W1/2 NW1/4:COM W1/4 COR E..." most have since been re-surveyed making them into one lot.

Could this area of been the location of the Ralston??? and part of the Stealy property the hotel??



303 Davis St.

600 Peru Ct.

Controversy raged for several years over acces to the gerneral public as indicated by this article: Controversy At Daviess Street

320 Davis Ha-Mac Landing / P. J.'s Pier

Peru Court - North


Private Lake access

550 Peru Court

520 Peru Street

516 Peru Street>

513 Peru Court

512 Peru Street

510 Peru Street -

West Town North - Winfield Street

These properties for years had the railroad between them and the lake till about late 1970's or early 1980's when it was abandoned and the property owners bought the railroad right-a-way back. This is indicated by a stripe of land decribed as generally: "PRT W1/2 NW1/4:COM W1/4 COR E..." most have since been re-surveyed making them into one lot.

Some of the homes are built new since the 1980's and are built on the old railroad bed and right-a-way.

Note the numbering system between here and Mill Street changed many times over the years

221 Winfield Street Non-lake-front - Vacant Platted lot - Gives Lake Access 227 Winfield Street - Non Lakefront Vacant Platted lot - Gives Lake Access

1986-6 Sep 1996 - Rick Tamminga


6 Sep 1996-2009 - Arnold H. & Susan M. Kiran


    229 winfield >



    Vandalia Street

    This properties for years had the railroad between them and the lake till about late 1970's or early 1980's when it was abandoned and the property owners bought the railroad right-a-way back. This is indicated by a a stip of land decribed as generally: "PRT W1/2 NW1/4:COM W1/4 COR E..." most have since been re-surveyed making them into one lot.

    A story has just came to light that Vandalia Street was due to be extended on North to connect to Mill Street - date unknown but that some property owner got wind of it on a Friday and when the workers came down to start the extension work they found that a cement pad had been installed for a garage to block the right-of-way; they just left never attempting to extended Vandalia on northward. This would indicate that there were no easements or dedicated property statements signed by affected property owners to whom ever tried to extend the road.


    This would of ran through what was the Standard Oil bulk tank property - and by what is known the railroad had a certain amount of right-a-way they owned on each side of the rail bed thorugh this area to Mill Street which included most of the property in the area; that would of been used for Vandalia St. to be expanded. The railroad may of had a small access road on each side of the rail bed. This crop is out of the 1937 sandborn map only showing the railway bed and we do know that they had ownership of the railway up until the late 1970's.


    Note the numbering system between here and Mill Street changed many times over the years

    440 Vandalia St. 430 Vandalia St. - [303 Winfield]

    West Town North - Mill Street, Willow Point, Cherry Villa, Villa Primavera



    Willow Point / Villa Primavera





    Some time after 1914 (by the above map that was in the Castleman & Williamson lease from the Vandalia Railroad) at this point in time Willow Point was subdivided into 2 properties and the second cottage was built on Willow Point Probably by - Thomas Benton Hamilton. Again Willow Point was subdivided again back in the about 1969; and created 303 Winfield St. property.

    Note the numbering system between here and Mill Street changed many times over the years

    428 Vandalia Street [221 E. Mill, 121 Willow Point] Willow Point Villa Primavera

    South Plymouth Street Hawkins Street - Mill Street



    422 S. Plymouth
      1960's 1970's 1980's Albert the Clothes Doctor - (non-lake-front) [Albert Williamson?]
      This house was torn down soon after the aquistion of it between Sept. 1992 and March 1993.
      HAWKINS ADD LOT 16


    408 S. Plymouth Non Lakefront

    The Grist Mill and the Standard Bulk Oil Plant was in back of these two properties and in front of Willow Point where the cottages known as 'Cherry Villa' and 'Villa Primavera'. This is the area today

    At the corner of Mill and Plymouth on the property of 408 S. Plymouth sits a tribute to 'Duke' the postmans dog (tho not in reality)- he followed Steve Guise all over the southern end of his route from Mill Street, he would be waiting for the appointed rounds at thecorner of Main & Mill for Steve each day


    1906 Sanborn Map
    1908 Plat Map
    1914 Sanborn Map
    1922 Plat Map
    1924 Sanborn Map


    401 S. Plymouth Street - As evidence by the 1937 Sanborn map the building was yet to be built as Lot #7 is still recorded as being vacant


      June (Garn) Napier Sirus rememebrs that it was one large room when the Arthurhultz's bought it, there was two pillars of either cement block or stone in front that were square this held up a canopy; and there were only three steps from the ground into the building. It had large windows in the front on each side of the door and was a stucco (with black, grey and white speck in it) type finish on the outside.

      It had a hedge that ran all the way around the edge of the property line 1-3 feet high depending upon its growth and if it was kept trimed up . It sat empty for many years until in the late 1970's when Charlene (Garn)& "Ray" Raymond Arthurhultz and her husband bought it and remolded it and made it into a home. The Arthurhultz's bought it off Charlie Weaver owned and bought it off him or the estate.

      Just when this building was last occupied is not known or if it had a name is unknown - but it sat empty in 1964 also as I remember and probably before that for an unknownw length of time.



    Willow Point / Villa Primavera



    213 Mill St Cherry Villa

    211 E Mill Street

    209 E Mill Street

    South Plymouth Mill Street to Madison aka Wiseman Street





    These properties for years had the railroad between them and the lake till about late 1970's or early 1980's when it was abandoned and the property owners bought the railroad right-a-way back. And was once indicated by a a stip of land decribed as generally: "PRT W1/2 NW1/4:COM W1/4 COR E..." most have since been re-surveyed making them into one lot.

    206 Mill St - This property sits on the corner of Mill and S. Plymouth St.


    317 E. Mill Street - Non Lakefront

    314 S. Plymouth [316] - Razed/Rebuilt

    308 S. Plymouth St.


    309 S. Plymouth Non Lake Front

    was displaced by the Cove project it sat across the street The 3rd photo show the then and now locations


    This is Myers Garden from the 1895 Maxinkuckee Ag book - an exact location has not been determined but from the curve in the railbead it is assumed to be between Willow Point and Washington Street

    1880 - W. J. Myers he had 17.35 acres, reached to lake edge - location would be [probably from Daviess or Winfield to Mill St


    232 S. Main - Razed/Parking Lot Julius Pura Property
      Julius Pura ran a Junk Yard from this location for years.



    Jefferson Street




    The way it was... 1976...


    > 319 E. Jefferson Street

    The Culver Cove


    559 E Jefferson Street

    Bayside / Beachview Properties LLC


    >

    Washington Street

    1922 Plat map of the jefferson & Washington Street area


    The aerial view or plat today

    		 Harbour Point Condominums


    504 E. Washington Street


    508 E washington St.


    The way it was...
    The way it is...    		 Washington Street Tressel


    State Street





    From Lakeview Street to probably Forrest Place is the 'infamous area' of "across from the depot" "near the depot" which makes documentation and researching of this area a hard process - copies (rather full scans) of old abstracts if they still exits are needed for this area to help confirm the historyof the area

    303 N State - Kreuzberger's Park & Saloon - "Old Brick"


    N State Street - Lakefront
      the address over the years has been given as 310/313 State Street but always listed as "vacant lot" or "Residential other structures". I think it originally was a part of the Kreuzberger Hotel or Tavern & Inn property and could of been the boat house for it. As it was describded as being Split off of S SE COR LOT 1 KREUS ADD S/303 State St. in 1987


    Anderson Boat & Bait Shop

    Vandalia Railroad Depot and Park grounds.
    & Pennsylvannia Deopt. -
    Town of Culver


    business district

    508 E Lakeshore Dr. (504) - Culver Union Township Fire Department - History Memorial & Parking Lot

    E. Lakeshore Dr.(610) - hotel_beachview/beachview.htm

    Pearl St Apartments

    612 E Lake Shore Dr. -

    614 E Lakeshore Dr. -

    620 E Lakeshore Dr. -

    624 Lakeshore Dr. -

    634 Lakeshore Dr.

    640 Lakeshore Dr.

    802 Lakeshore Dr.

    808 Lakeshore Dr

    820 Lakeshore Dr.

    824 Lakeshore Dr.

    824 N Lakeshore Dr.

    Indian Trails - Aka Lake View Hotel & Jungle Hotel





    Lake View Hotel

    Indian Trails

    Jungle Hotel

    Culver Motel - Culver Academy

    Palmer Hotel

    Culver Military Academy / Culver Educational Foundation

    North Shore road

    old CMA Boat house

    Henry Harrison Culver

    CMA Land holdings

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