The mansion stock, tested: no mansion in the record — custom houses at the top of a subdivision stock

Register row L22-#3 · closes as a TESTED NEGATIVE

The pattern fails, and the failure is the finding: the checklist's mansion stock — a house a church voted not to demolish, a mansion that burned to its walls, a golf-course mansion — was tested against the whole record this build holds and the open record beyond it: the banked neighborhoods, businesses, religion and spine files, the landmark and National Register record, and the current listing record for the ground's largest houses. No house on this ground is carried in any of those records as a mansion with a course of that kind. No congregation's vote to spare or raze a great house appears; no burned-to-its-walls mansion and no walls-and-afterlife account appears; and no house stands in the record as a golf course's mansion — Knollwood's clubhouse is a club building of the 1975 creation, not a converted residence, in every source reached.

What the top of the stock actually is: a custom-house market inside the plats. The newest Knollwood plat states the form in its own sales record: Woodford Trails' "Custom Estate Homes underway in this community range from $1mil to $2mil," with covenant minimums of 2,200 square feet for a ranch and 2,400 for a two-story (Kline Custom Homes' listing record, 2025–26) — estate-priced, builder-custom, and platted, house by house, with no single seat, no demesne and no institutional afterlife. The older ring prints the same shape at its own prices: a Woodland Hills estate of 4,632 finished square feet on 1.29 acres, built 1994, listed at $1,225,000 in November 2026; a Saddlebrook custom house of 3,830 square feet, built 1995. These are the largest documented houses of the place, and they are printed at exactly that size: the top of a subdivision stock, not a mansion stock. Granger's great-house era never happened, because the ground passed directly from farmhouses to plats; the farmhouse candidates belong to the oldest-houses entry above, and no house between them and the custom plats was ever built at mansion scale in the record reached.

Sources:

1. Neighborhoods, Businesses, Churches & Religion, The Story of Granger (banked) — searched whole for a mansion, a demolition vote, a burned great house and a golf-course mansion; none carried.
2. Listing Leaders / IRMLS listing record for Woodford Trails at Knollwood, 2025–26 — custom estate homes at $1M–$2M; minimums of 2,200 sq ft (ranch) and 2,400 sq ft (two-story).
3. Redfin / IRMLS, 51346 Northill Ct (Woodland Hills) — 4,632 sq ft, 1.29 acres, built 1994, listed $1,225,000, November 2026. Howard Hanna / IRMLS, 50738 Pickett Ridge Ct (Saddlebrook) — 3,830 sq ft, built 1995.
4. National Register listings for St. Joseph County (NPS list, complete through September 2026 postings) — no Granger mansion or house listing inside the CDP, consistent with the banked arts-culture test.