Rows 1 and 4 — The seated test, run whole: no hall of fame is or ever was seated in the CDP; the county's one hall course is South Bend's

THE SEATED TEST · TO NOVEMBER 2026

The register's founding test for this section returns a clean negative, and row 4's rise-and-leaving course completes at the size of that absence: No hall of fame of any level — national, state, local, school or sport — is seated, or is recorded as ever having been seated, inside the Granger CDP. The test ran on three independent records: the exempt-organization register for this ground (the TaxExemptWorld Granger listings read for the Arts pass, and ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer searched this run — the CDP's exempt rolls carry schools, churches, leagues and foundations, no hall); the directory record (no hall appears in any Granger directory, map or institutional listing reached); and the Arts section's institution tests (no museum, theater or historical society is seated here either — a hall without a host building has nowhere on this ground to stand). Row 4 therefore completes honestly at absence size: there is no local hall whose founding, peak and decline can be narrated, because there is no local hall.

The nearest course of that kind is the county's, and it is printed at boundary size as South Bend's whole: the College Football Hall of Fame — the National Football Foundation's hall, first housed at Kings Mills, Ohio (1978–1992) — relocated to downtown South Bend and opened there on August 25, 1995, the city having won the relocation (announced July 13, 1992) and built for it. It drew some 115,000 visitors its first year, then settled to roughly 60,000–80,000 a year against 150,000 predicted; in September 2009 the Foundation announced the move to Atlanta, the South Bend building closed in December 2012 with the city still carrying bond payments of about $1.6 million a year through 2017 (the Indianapolis Business Journal's accounting), and the Atlanta hall opened August 23, 2014. A national hall lived in this county for seventeen years, three miles from this ground's edge, and never in Granger — which was never a bidder in any record reached. That is row 4's true size: a leaving that happened next door.

Sources:

1. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, searched November 2026; TaxExemptWorld's Granger listings — no hall of fame among the CDP's exempt organizations.
2. Arts of this build — the seated-institution negatives (museum, theater, historical society) the hall test builds on.
3. College Football Hall of Fame, cfbhall.com, the hall's own history — Kings Mills 1978–1992; South Bend 1995–2012; Atlanta opened August 23, 2014.
4. Indianapolis Business Journal, September 23, 2009 — the South Bend attendance figures, the $1.6M annual bond payments and the hotel-motel tax support, at the move's announcement.