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As of November 2026
The anniversaries, first, because in this county anniversaries are when the regime acts. The Commission marked its own fortieth in 2013–2014 ("HPC Celebrating 40 Years 1973"), counting from the 1973 ordinance. South Bend Heritage celebrated fifty years in 2024, publishing the fifty-year record drawn on in Article 6. South Bend's sesquicentennial year, 2015, is the frame Building South Bend gives its district histories. A place with no founding plat and no incorporation date has, so far, kept no anniversaries.
The regime as it stands in November 2026, named whole: the governing body is the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County, five of nine seats filled (President Sarah Andrews; Vice President Kathryn Hough; Secretary Michael Skaggs; Andrew Fowler; Ryan Palczynski), four seats vacant including the Architectural Historian, meeting monthly on the third Monday, next on 16 November 2026, exercising COA jurisdiction over the one Granger landmark under Chapter 21 of the South Bend code and Chapter 26 of the county code. The hands-on organisation is South Bend Heritage, active and building, with no Granger holding. The statewide organisation is Indiana Landmarks, its Northern Regional Office active in South Bend under Todd Zeiger, holding nothing in the two townships. The designation totals stand as counted in Article 5: Register 0 in the CDP, districts 0, local landmarks 1. And the one open fight — if a single-landmark township can be said to have one — is not a fight at all but an unfinished file: the built state and cost of Harris Prairie Cemetery's Application 2024-0103 programme, which remains, as of November 2026, exactly where Article 8 leaves it, awaiting its settlers.