The Great Houses: Two Candidates

The closing article · costs a named gap, survival and designation as the record carries them

The candidates, at record strength: A great-houses closing needs a fortune's house with a building cost, a survival course and a present designation. The first is the Adams Road stage-stop brick house, carried in the Story of Granger section leg as a still-standing landmark of the stage era — the ground's oldest great house by tradition, tied in the Religion section to the Adams Road stage-stop Mass tradition. The second is the Talley house — the red-brick house built by Alfred Talley (born 1809, a Chicago printer) on the east side of Juniper Road near Cleveland Road, which the Historic Preservation Commission's account, as carried in Dorothy Corson's Grotto history, dates to a landmark designation in June 1975, still in the O'Connor family line that bought it in the early 1950s — and which carries, in the same account, this section's one Prohibition color (a 1923 owner's basement wine service to Notre Dame students, ended by a bootlegging arrest), told whole in the Crime addendum. Neither house was a banker's or industrialist's seat: one is a stage-stop's, the other a printer-farmer's, and that is the truthful shape of the great-houses shelf on a ground whose largest fortune was a congregation's farm — whose seat was a working farm's brick farmhouse row, not a mansion, and whose buildings' costs the farm's own extracts do not publish either.

The named gap: For neither candidate house does any source reached publish a building cost, and no source reached gives the Adams Road house a formal present designation at the strength the Talley house's 1975 landmark status is published. Those two wants close only in the settler named here: the St. Joseph County Historic Preservation Commission's survey files, read with the county parcel file's year-built record for the farmhouse stock — the same parcel instrument this build used for its Neighborhoods leg. Until that read is made, the leg closes with the houses printed as they stand — landmark and tradition, survival courses carried, costs and the second designation named as the gap — rather than with costs invented to complete the pattern.

Sources:

1. Spine leg (banked) — the Adams Road stage-stop brick house as standing landmark; Religion section (banked) — the stage-stop Mass tradition.
2. Dorothy V. Corson, "A Cave of Candles," ch. 4 (University of Notre Dame) — the Talley house: Alfred Talley, builder; the Historic Preservation Commission landmark status of June 1975; the O'Connor ownership course; the 1923 speakeasy account (its own citations: the SJCPL newspaper biography clipping file and the Commission).
3. Settler named: St. Joseph County Historic Preservation Commission survey files + the county parcel year-built record.