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Tippecanoe Place, 620 W Washington
Henry Cobb designed this Richardsonian Romanesque style mansion for
Clement Studebaker. It has forty rooms (including a ball room, library,
and billiard room) and twenty fireplaces. It now houses one of South
Bend’s finest restaurants. |
Copshaholm, 808 W Washington
Built in 1895-96, this Romanesque Queen Anne Style mansion was designed by
the architect Charles Alonso Rich for J. D. Oliver, the owner of the Chilled
Plow Works. The house has 38 rooms and 14 fireplaces. The
building is now a museum open to the public and is part of the Northern
Indiana Center for History. |
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Engman Natatorium, 1100 block of W Washington
This 1922 Neoclassical Style building was a gift to the city from a South
Bend businessman. The swimming pool was segregated until 1950 when it
became the last public building in South Bend to become integrated.
Since 2009 it has housed the Civil Rights Heritage Center of Indiana
University at South Bend. |
Progress Club, 601 W Colfax
The Progress Club of South Bend was founded in 1895 by area women who
erected this building for their activities in 1928, on the site of the home
of Schuyler Colfax (Vice-President to U.S.S. Grant). The Club continues
its work in support of the arts as part of the Greater Federation of Women’s
Clubs. Today the building is home to the Berean Seventh Day Adventist
Church. |
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Central High School & Vocational School, 230 W Colfax
This Collegiate Gothic building was dedicated in 1913 as the home of South
Bend High School. With the establishment of another High School in 1930, the
name was changed to reflect its central location. John Wooden, who went
on to win ten national basketball championships at UCLA, coached at Central
High for nine years. Its last high school class graduated in 1970. The
building is now an apartment/condominium complex. |
Notre Dame Center for Civic Innovation, 1045 W Washington
The
Center for Civic Innovation works with other research centers
and individuals across Notre Dame to identify unique
opportunities for collaboration that address pressing issues
primarily in the South Bend/Elkhart region. The building the Center
is housed in was built in 1925 as a clinic for disadvantaged
children, and was formerly known to the community as the Hansel
Center.
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South Bend Fire Station # 2, 402 Charles Martin Drive
One of the newest additions to the neighborhood (2007), this fire station
was designed to fit in with the local architecture. |
South Bend City Cemetery, 214 Elm Street
This twenty-two acre cemetery was given to the city by its founders,
Alexis Coquillard and Lathrop Taylor. Schuyler Colfax, the 17th
Vice-President of the United States, is buried here. |
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