Historical Images of Porter County

Normal Book Store, College Hill
Valparaiso, Indiana

Date: Circa 1903
Source Type: Souvenir Book
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Hobart & Kennedy
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Note that between 1900 and 1906, today's Valparaiso University was known as Valparaiso College. Benjamin F. Perrine owned and operated the university book store, conducting a printing business and at one time a bicycle manufacturing plant in connection. In 1892 he sold the book store to M. E. Bogarte and removed a year later to his present home in Wheeler.

The M. E. Bogarte Book Company was organized in 1904. Martin E. Bogarte operated a penmanship school at the Northern Indiana Normal School and Business Institute, the predecessor of Valparaiso University. He was a professor at the school for several decades.

If present day Short Street were extended south and College Avenue extended east, then this building would have been located on the northeast corner where these two roads once intersected one another.

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Image and related text prepared by Steven R. Shook