Kamm & Schellinger of Mishawaka

1850/1853–1951 · 100 CENTER STREET, MISHAWAKA (BOUNDARY — POINTER ONLY)

Cross-reference, at pointer size as the checklist orders, never retold: the neighbouring city's house is the Kamm and Schellinger Brewery of Mishawaka — founded by John Wagner (the brewing record gives the founding as 1850; the first structures were built in 1853), bought in 1870 by Adolph Kamm with Clemens Dick, Kamm & Schellinger from about 1880 when Nicholas Schellinger, Kamm's brother-in-law, took Dick's share, incorporated in 1883 as the Kamm & Schellinger Brewing Company with a capital of $65,000, its celebrated brand its Pilsner, its output about 30,000 barrels a year and rising at the century's turn, beer production ended in 1951, the complex at 100 Center Street on the St. Joseph River listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 (reference no. 79000042) and marked by the Indiana Historical Bureau in 1995, its buildings long since reused as the 100 Center. The full course — Wagner's ground, the family succession, the Prohibition course and the successor lines — belongs to the Mishawaka build and is pointed to there. Its size against this section is the only Granger fact the pointer carries: the county's great brewery stood one city east for a century, and in that century neither township of this ground seated a brewery of any size at all.

Sources:

1. Indiana Historical Bureau marker 71.1995.1, “Kamm and Schellinger Brewery” (first structures 1853; incorporated 1883; beer production ended 1951; National Register 1979), in.gov, consulted November 2026.
2. National Register of Historic Places, Kamm and Schellinger Brewery, ref. no. 79000042, 100 Center St, Mishawaka (original brewery building built 1853 by John Wagner; stable c. 1855; boiler house c. 1870), NPS NPGallery record, consulted November 2026.
3. Historic Structures, “Kamm and Schellinger Brewery, Mishawaka Indiana” (1850 establishment by Wagner; 1870 Kamm and Dick purchase; 1880 Schellinger succession; 1883 incorporation at $65,000 capital; Pilsner; c. 30,000 barrels), consulted November 2026. The 1850 founding and 1853 first-structures dates print both, as the sources give them.