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Preservation as Repair: Harris Prairie Cemetery

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Harris Prairie Cemetery, 2023–2026: NAMED GAP on cost and built outcome

The case is Harris Prairie Cemetery, 14500 Adams Road — Granger's one local landmark (Ordinance #113-99), a burial ground dating to 1840, owned and managed by the Harris Township Trustee. The repair-not-façade pattern the row asks for is the pattern of the trustee's campaign carried in the Cemeteries file: monument cleaning and repair through 2023, then a formal improvement programme. That programme reached the Commission as Application 2024-0103: the HPC staff report of 9 January 2024 (docs.southbendin.gov) records the applicant as the Harris Township Trustee, the trustee's letter of 22 December 2023 signed on behalf of Trustee Ken Lindsay, a 20-dollar application fee receipted 4 January 2024, a staff recommendation of Favorable, and four items: (1) replacement of the chain-link fence with a black ornamental fence; (2) paving and curbing of the drive and a three-car parking area; (3) a formal entrance with brick columns and a potential metal archway; (4) up to two granite columbaria on the south side. The floor pattern for a rescue-by-repair at full size exists in the same county record — South Bend's Natatorium, carried in Article 6 as a South Bend Heritage adaptive reuse — but the row asks for this case whole, and this case cannot presently be printed whole.

Accordingly this row closes as a NAMED GAP, not by argument: the cost of the 2024-0103 programme and its built outcome as of November 2026 are unsettled in the open record. The settlers are named exactly: the Historic Preservation Commission's file for Application 2024-0103 (issued certificate, follow-up certificates and inspections), and the Harris Township trustee annual reports 2024–2026, which carry the cemetery fund's disbursements. Until one of those is read, no cost and no built state is asserted here.

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Source: Preservation as Repair: Harris Prairie Cemetery, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/historic-preservation/preservation-as-repair-one-case-whole-as-far-as/