Preservation and the arts as corporations

THE CORPORATE FACTS ONLY · THE ART HISTORIES STAND IN THE ARTS LEG

This article takes the bodies, not the art. Preservation first: the statewide preservation corporation is Indiana Landmarks, a statewide nonprofit whose Northern Regional Office is the local presence the checklist tests. Its South Bend course is a serial-restoration course, in its own telling: in 2000 Indiana Landmarks saved the Remedy Building on West Washington Street (built 1895–1896) from demolition by moving and repurposing it as its office; in May 2017 it sold the Remedy Building for $350,000, put the proceeds into the masonry and roof of the 1885 Kizer House a few blocks west, and moved its two-person regional office into the Kizer House carriage house; in February 2022 it listed the Kizer House itself for sale at $349,900, exterior restoration complete, interior left for a buyer — the office's method made visible, each headquarters a rescued building sold on to fund the next. No Indiana Landmarks office, easement property or project stands inside the designated place in the record reached; Granger's preservation is served from West Washington Street, at boundary distance, like its hospitals. The arts bodies, as corporations, in founding order: the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, formed in 1932 by Edwyn H. Hames from his string students and professional musicians, professionalised under president Ella Morris from 1935, and standing in November 2026 as the county's orchestra corporation, a 501(c)(3) performing at Notre Dame and the Morris Performing Arts Center. The South Bend Civic Theatre, founded in 1957 by two Notre Dame graduates, housed after 1968 at the Firehouse on Portage Avenue and from January 2007 in its own downtown building at 403 North Main Street. The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association, founded in 1973 by Joseph E. Fischoff and the South Bend Chamber Music Society to run the Fischoff Competition — grown from six ensembles in 1973 to the largest chamber-music competition in the nation, a 501(c)(3) headquartered in South Bend and seated, for its competition, at Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Each is a South Bend corporation serving a county audience, Granger's subscribers and players inside it; their art histories stand in the Arts and Music legs. The one arts corporation seated inside the line is this ground's own, and its corporate record closes the article where the Arts section opened it: the Conservatory of Dance Company Inc, of 14678 State Road 23, in the federal exempt record from April 2000, and the present Conservatory of Dance Inc at the same address, exempt from March 2023 — a dance school whose double corporate paper is, on this ground, the arts sector's whole incorporated form.

Sources: Indiana Landmarks, its own releases of May 31, 2017 and February 24, 2022 (the Remedy Building's 2000 rescue and $350,000 sale; the Kizer House move; the $349,900 listing), and the University of Notre Dame's Building South Bend record (the Remedy Building, 1895, as the Northern Regional Office). South Bend Symphony Orchestra, its own history (the 1932 founding; the 1935 professionalisation). South Bend Civic Theatre, its published record (the 1957 founding; the Firehouse years; the January 2007 Main Street opening). Fischoff National Chamber Music Association, its own record and the University of Notre Dame's fiftieth-anniversary account (the 1973 founding; six ensembles at the first competition; the 501(c)(3) form). The Arts section of this build and the Granger exempt register (the Conservatory of Dance companies, April 2000 and March 2023), cross-referenced.