Dawn Manor — 103 parcels: a 1960s–1970s ranch plat the wave framing misdates

Harris Township · Prairie Vista catchment · houses of 1966–1977 in the listing record

The plat at the size its houses carry it: Dawn Manor counts 103 parcels across its additions in the county file — the largest single name in the register of the rest. Its houses testify against the company the banked register keeps for it: the listing record for Dawn Manor addresses returns building years of 1966 (52335 Santa Monica Dr), 1969 (15318 Kerlin Dr), 1973 (52333 and 52311 Monte Vista Dr; 15342 Monterosa Dr) and 1977 (15456 Monterosa Dr) — ranches of 1,665 to 2,490 square feet on lots of 0.38 to 0.49 acres. Dawn Manor is therefore not a plat of the 1980s–2000s Harris waves among which the banked file registers it; it is a plat of the preceding generation, a contemporary of the postwar Clay fringe across the townships, built out in the decade around 1970. The conflict is printed whole: the banked register's placement is by parcel rank, not by date, and this section's house-by-house evidence re-dates the plat — the correction is flagged for assembly, not silently made in the banked file.

Street plan and character: its street names are the plat's own vocabulary — Monte Vista Drive, Monterosa Drive, Santa Monica Drive, Kerlin Drive, Arthur Street — a western-and-California register unlike the woodland names of the later waves, strung through the Prairie Vista Elementary catchment in Harris Township's center. Character, from the listing record's own language: "quiet Dawn Manor," three-bedroom ranches "ready for a buyer with vision," a settled, aging-in-place plat selling in 2025–26 in the $265,000–$302,450 range (the subdivision directory's average asking figure) — the register's oldest plat wearing the register's most modest prices. Present state, November 2026: fully built, no vacant-lot course in the record reached, trading at turnover pace.

The test shown: builder/subdivider — no source reached names one; recording dates of the additions — not in any open source reached. Settler for both: the Recorder's plat books. The plat stands at the size above — count, ground, streets, building years, character, present state — and no further.

Sources:

1. St. Joseph County parcel record, read November 2026 (via Neighborhoods, banked) — Dawn Manor, 103 parcels across its additions.
2. IRMLS listing record via Zillow, Redfin and Homes.com, read November 2026 — building years 1966, 1969, 1973, 1977; lot sizes 0.38–0.49 acres; floor areas; the Monte Vista, Monterosa, Santa Monica, Kerlin and Arthur street names; Prairie Vista catchment.
3. Coldwell Banker 1st Choice subdivision directory — Dawn Manor: average asking price $302,450 (directory statement, November 2026).
4. Settler named: St. Joseph County Recorder's plat books (proprietor, recording dates).