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The National Historic Landmark test for this ground

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The Park Service list for Indiana, read for St. Joseph County

There is no National Historic Landmark in Lakeville or Union Township; the county holds exactly one, and the test prints the whole ladder so Register fame is never inflated into Landmark fame. The National Park Service's Landmark list for Indiana names forty-four properties statewide. For St. Joseph County it names one: Tippecanoe Place in South Bend, Clement Studebaker's mansion of 1889, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977. The county's other great house, the Joseph D. Oliver House — Copshaholm — stands on the National Register, listed in 1973, and a 2023–2024 nomination effort sought to elevate it to national significance; as of this section's reading of the Park Service list, the county's Landmark count remains one, and the two carriers print whole in the accounting as a status in motion, not merged. Below the county seat the ladder shortens fast: Lakeville's 1931 high school is on the National Register — listed 29 August 1991, on consolidation heritage and Collegiate Gothic — which is Register fame, real and quiet, exactly as the banked roll prints it, and it is not Landmark fame. No property in Union Township appears on the Landmark list in any carrier reached. The test's value for this build is disciplinary: wherever the famous-locations roll says famous, the fame's rung on this ladder — Landmark, Register, marker, trade, local — is the rung printed.

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Source: The National Historic Landmark test for this ground, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/landmarks/national-historic-landmark-test-for-this-ground/