Bartlett Real Estate Office | |
 The Bartlett Real Estate Office. Now the Town of Beverly Shores Town Offices | |
 Interactive map highlighting the building's location | |
| Location | 500 South Broadway, Beverly Shores, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 41°40′24″N 86°59′12″W / 41.67333°N 86.98667°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1927 |
| Built by | Leo Post |
| Architect | Fred Mertz |
| Architectural style | Mission/Spanish Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 04000208[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 23, 2004 |
The Bartlett Real Estate Office, also called the Frederick Bartlett Real Estate sales and administration building, was built in 1927 at 500 S. Broadway, Beverly Shores, Porter County, Indiana. It is Mediterranean Revival style. Bartlett also chose this style for the houses in his new development of Beverly Shores. Since 1946, it has served as the Beverly Shores Administration Building, with the clerk-treasurer's office, a public and town council meeting room, and the town marshal's office.[2]
The town is a small community at the southernmost tip of Lake Michigan, 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Chicago, Illinois. About 4,000 years ago, the dunes formed as a result of the formation of large bays, which silted up. In Beverly Shores, roads had to be graded through and over the dunes, and some areas were leveled off for development. The town is now an island of private homes surrounded by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, a federal park administered by the National Park Service. Across Broadway is the original Beverly Shores South Shore Railroad Station. The station was the first point of contact for prospective clients of Bartlett's, and it presented a unified appearance to the development to clients, with its stuccoed Mediterranean Revival exterior.[2]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved June 1, 2016. Note: This includes Beverly Overmeyer (September 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Bartlett Real Estate Office" (PDF). Retrieved June 1, 2016. and Accompanying photographs.