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Fame's forwarding address: the buildings departed institutions left

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The test run at town size, then at the county's pattern size

On Lakeville ground the forwarding-address test returns its hardest form: the town's departed famous institutions left no buildings at all. The institutions that made Lakeville known beyond itself and then departed are its two railroads. Both depots — the joint Wabash and Vandalia depot with its tower, and every structure of the town's two-railroad era — are gone with their lines; the trains file's present-state verdict is that nothing remains. A forwarding address requires a surviving building doing second work, and Lakeville offers none for its rail fame: the fame forwarded to a crossing, a street width, and a record. The town's other departed seat of fame, the 1931 high school, has not departed; it stands in its first use. The county's pattern case stands at boundary size and shows what the form looks like when a building survives: South Bend's former College Football Hall of Fame building, emptied when the Hall left for Atlanta in 2014, treated in that build as a location in its own right. The residue is named: should a departed-institution building on Lakeville ground be identified — a church, school, or works building re-used after a famous tenant — the heritage and business records are the settler, and the test reopens. As reached, this item closes mixed: the test is run whole, the local answer is absence of the building rather than absence of the fame, and the pattern case is carried at its true boundary size.

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Source: Fame's forwarding address: the buildings departed institutions left, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/landmarks/fame-s-forwarding-address-the-buildings-departed-institutions-left/