The founding and Main, at position size

The library's own history timeline, read in full; the tax-fight item carried from the sibling pass as a labelled searched negative

The system the town rides on began as a reading room. The South Bend Library and Reading Room Association opened in 1873; a Board of Education resolution in 1888 made it a public library, and it opened in 1889 on the fourth floor of the Oliver Opera House, Evelyn Humphreys its first head librarian (the library's own spelling; a "Humphries" variant circulates and prints in the sibling build's register, unmerged). Main's course, at the position size that is all this town's leg needs of another place's building: the Castle at 304 S. Main (1896), demolished 1958; the Spiro Memorial Library (1960); a new Main on the original site, dedicated 1992; the renovated Main's grand reopening on 14 November 2021, and the Community Learning Center's opening on 10 January 2022. One floor item of the baseline checklist is answered as a negative: no tax fight at the founding — no levy contest or referendum of 1888–89 — was found in the sibling pass's searches, and Waterson's 1994 narrative, where such a fight would be documented, stands unpulled on this build's pull list. The pre-public subscription collections of the Fort Wayne pattern have no analogue reached for this system; the 1873 association is its first collection, and it prints as such.