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The template is exact, and it is South Bend's: the Palace Theatre, opened 1922, voted for demolition by its board in 1959, was bought by Ella M. Morris and sold by her to the city for one dollar, reopened that October as the Morris Civic Auditorium, and stands today as the Morris Performing Arts Center. A saved-for-a-dollar case requires three things in print: a named building, a demolition threat, and a rescue at a nominal price or by a preservation campaign. The register's National Register negative (row 5, covered) does not answer this class, because a rescued building need never be listed. So the class was tested on its own: in Indiana Landmarks' county record and published St. Joseph County work, in the county preservation file as represented in print, and in the Tribune archive's building-rescue coverage as indexed in open sources. No Granger building appears in any of them as rescued, bought for a nominal sum, or saved by a campaign. The ground's old buildings meet ordinary ends in this build's record — farmhouses, schools, and the union depot (row 6) demolished or replaced without a rescue chapter — and the one preservation listing the townships hold, St. Patrick's Farm, stands west of the census line and prints as boundary in the covered row, acquired and kept by its religious order rather than rescued from a wrecking ball. The verdict is a documented negative: the Morris story has no Granger counterpart, and the absence is now a searched absence, not an unasked question.
Morris Performing Arts Center's own history and Discover Indiana's entry (Palace Theatre, 1922; demolition voted 1959; Ella M. Morris's purchase and one-dollar sale to the city; reopened October 1959); searches run November 2026 of Indiana Landmarks' published county material and of open Tribune-indexed coverage for a Granger building rescue, nominal-price sale, or preservation campaign (no case returned); Arts Register article (no National Register property inside the designated place; St. Patrick's Farm, 50651 Laurel Road, listed December 31, 2013, west of the census line).