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1890 — present
The near northwest was a president's family estate: the Chapin Park Addition was platted in 1890 by Horatio Chapin's children — Mary Chapin Anderson and Edward Chapin — on the family estate along the river bluff northwest of downtown, and subdivision continued until 1910, when the name Riverside Drive was officially chosen; most of the houses rose between 1902 and 1918. The eastern third of the neighborhood lies in the Chapin Park National Register Historic District, listed in 1982; Riverside Drive itself became a local historic district in 1985, and the adjoining plats followed — River Bend in 1992, from a Hammond & Whitcomb plat of 1903, and North St. Joseph Street in 1998, a Whitcomb & Hammond plat — the same two firms, in both orders of their names, that built so much of the streetcar city. The neighborhood's present steward is the Near Northwest Neighborhood, Inc., a community development corporation at 1007 Portage Avenue that buys, rehabilitates and sells houses in the area — the associational form the twenty-first century gives a nineteenth-century plat.
Sources:
- Notre Dame, Building South Bend — Riverside Drive; Chapin Park; River Bend; North St. Joseph Street — building.southbend.nd.edu
- Near Northwest Neighborhood, Inc. — the organization's own account — nnnsb.org