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Lakeville's industrial architecture was always written as business; read as fabric, it is a story of two survivals and three losses. The losses: the Coquillard mill on the Lakeville limb (1854–c. 1864) — the township's first industrial building of scale, its fabric unrecorded beyond the firm's own record; and both railroad depots, gone entire (the heritage file's demolition line) — the town's rail architecture survives as roadbed and memory. The survivals: the bank building at 222 S. Michigan Street — a bank office from 2 April 1956 to 2011, standing today in a present use this build has not reached (gap G-LK7-22B, named, not filled); and the Hoosier Racing Tire headquarters complex, the modern industrial plant at the town's north — the largest industrial fabric seated in Lakeville, carried in its owning file as a company and entered here as a building: offices, engineering, and warehousing under one corporate roofline, the 1995-founded plant grown with the firm. Between the losses and the survivals stands the elevator-and-warehouse class at listing strength only. The survey-size treatment of the whole class — measured drawings' prose equivalent — stands as residue: settler, the SHAARD industrial rows for the township (gap G-SP-7).
Principal sources: the banked this history lk-rem-architecture and lk-rem-heritage; this history lk-tst-wealth (the mill's dates); Hoosier Racing Tire (the plant as the firm's seat).