Michael Mode Double House, 417-419 North College Avenue (Indianapolis, Ind.) c. 1968

Michael Mode Double House

Description:	1887 Sanborn Map: http://ulib.iupuidigital.org/cdm/ref/collection/SanbornJP2/id/369 <br> 1898 Sanborn Map: http://ulib.iupuidigital.org/cdm/ref/collection/SanbornJP2/id/496 <br> 1915 Sanborn Map: http://ulib.iupuidigital.org/cdm/ref/collection/SanbornJP2/id/1961 <br> Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission https://tinyurl.com/bdzf2ftc 417-419 North College Avenue Indianapolis Indiana Marion Center Lockerbie Square Historic District Michael Mode Double <br>417 - 419 North College Avenue (formerly Noble Street)<br>1905 <br>The brick two-and-a-half story double at 417-419 North College Avenue dates back to about 1905. It was constructed as a rental property by Michael Mode, proprietor of a shoe store at 145 East Washington Street. The Mode double replaced a frame triple residence built by the Schaub family of shoemakers some thirty to forty years before and occupying both the 417-419 lot and the one immediately north of it. <br>Michael Mode had acquired most of the two lots in the late 1880s and had rented his part of the triple during the 1890s. In 1904 Mode purchased the remaining part of the lots from William Schaub and the next year started construction on the brick double. Michael Mode, probably a German immigrant, was the successful proprietor of Michael Modes Shoe Store, which his sons Charles and George continued as Mode Brothers. <br>The Michael Mode double is distinctive as a large brick double residence whose Germanic characteristic is the repeated, prominent gable fractables. The front gable has two limestone bands which also function as lintels. The base of the front gable fractable is ornamented by low-relief floral sculpture. <br> -From Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission, Lockerbie Square Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1987
Origin:	c. 1968
Created By:	Indiana Landmarks
Contributor(s):	Funding provided by an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, administered by the Indiana State Library
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/IHAS/id/7025
Collection:	Indiana Landmarks Historic Architecture Collection
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Subjects:	FREE CLASSIC DETERIORATION HISTORIC DISTRICTS HOUSES NEIGHBORHOODS

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