Starke County, Indiana History through Photographs and Postcards

A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF STARKE COUNTY INDIANA

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Compiled by Marvin Allen Starke County Historian Copyright© 2008

Introduction

Originally submitted to local newspapers between 2004 and 2009

as “Starke History”,

these photographs provide a pictorial record of more than a hundred years of local history. Some were taken by other professional photographers, as well as amateurs with early box cameras, but the majority of the pictures were taken by Klopot Studios. Sigmund Klopot moved with his wife Clara and daughter Stella to the area in 1894 from Chicago. Soon studios were opened at North Judson, Knox and Bass Lake. Later Stella related that the lens was so valuable that they carried it with them from studio to studio. She said they traveled on the 3-I Train from Knox to North Judson every Friday morning, handled business there and then took the Erie Train to Bass Lake for the weekend, at least during the summers. After arriving at the south end of Bass Lake, they would take one of the steam boats around the lake as it dropped tourists off a various hotels. Their studio was in Winona

on the lake’s north side.

Tintypes were a

tourist’s

favorite. They were quick to make and less costly than prints, which required a separate negative. After Sigmund died in 1912, Clara continued on with the business for many years. Stella eventually took over and ran the studio until the late 1960s. Stella (Klopot) Bonner also served as Starke County

’s first County Historian

. We are forever indebted to the Klopot family for their many, now historic, photos and efforts to preserve local history.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Bass Lake

Bass Hotel (Original) Bass Lake Ball Team Bass Lake Country Club Bass Lake Fire Department Bass Lake Fish Hatchery Bass Lake State Beach Bass Station General Store Bathers Best View Hotel - Beagle Club Best View Hotel Scene

Bloom’s Store

Brabrook Hotel

Brydon’s Beach

Buchta’s Store

Cente View Hotel

Cleaves’s Chute

Conner’s Corner

Crystal Ballroom Ferretti Resort

Kaley Brother’s Store

Klopot Photo Studio Lake Park (1940) Lake Park Lake Park Garage Lakeside Grocery Mae Villa Miss Bass Lake (1926) Miss Bass Lake Contestants (1926)

Rannell’s Motor Bus

Shore Room Steam Boats Taggart Hotel

Tomassi’s Resort

Van’s Inn

Winona Winona Band Concert Winona Business Section Winona Fire Department Winona School (1908)

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