About Us- Student Rental

This historic home was built in 1898 and still retains it's historic charm.  Chauncey T. Fassett, a newspaper editor for the XX, purchased the property on May 12, 1893 for $700.  Architect Ennis Austin, of Austin & Shambleau designed this seven room Queen Anne shingle style house for Mr. Fassett.  Fasset's parents came to South Bend from New York in the late 1830's and open a dry goods store.  Chauncey was born on July 30, 1849 and shortly afterwards the family left to join the California Gold Rush. The family returned to Indiana and settled in Goshen in 1863.  After graduating from the public schools, Chauncey spent two years studying law in the office of Judge Miller of Goshen.  He was not content with the law field though and in 1873 became a reporter for the South Bend Union, one of South Bend's early newspapers and owned by his brother, Herbert S Fassett.  In 1878, he became secretary of The Register, and after it was bouth by the Tribune in 1887, Chauncey started the South Bend News, a weekly paper published on Sunday and later daily.  The News merged with the South Bend Times and he served as editor and feature writer for the News-Times for many years.  In 1916, he joined the staff of the South Bend Tribune and became known as the dean of active newspaper men of northern Indiana.  He wrote a popular column called "The Slant", and served as feature writer and associate editor of the Tribune until his death in 1922

Mr. Fassett married Anna Thrush on October 31, 1877 and they had one daughter, Thrush, who died in 1901 at 18 years of age. Mrs. Fassett was the daughter of Reverend Jon Thrush of Baltimore Maryland who was appointed chaplain of the Lincoln-Georgetown Hospital by President Abraham Lincoln during the civil war. When Anna was seven years old she accompanied her father to an appointment with President Lincoln and he put her on his knee and kissed her cheek.  It was shortly after this incident that Lincoln was assassinated and when Anna climbed up on his casket to look in and her hoop skirt got caught, and a soldier slit if with his sword to free her.  The Thrush family then moved to Indiana where Anna met Chauncey Fassett.  Anna stayed on in this house until 1926 when she moved to the Morningside Hotel; she died there on February 15, 1946.

Before her death, Mrs. Fassett sold the home in 1926 to William C. Warner, who was the secretary/treasurer for the Taggart Freight, Transfer Company. Eventually, the house was later sold to Paul V. Bolger, who remained in the home until his death in 2005.