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May 1914 · Church and Third Streets
The event: Mishawaka's growth in the century's second decade built it a new United States Post Office at the northeast corner of Church and Third Streets, and the town marked the building's beginning the way it marked things then: with a procession. When the cornerstone was laid in May 1914 for the Neo-Classical building, the festivities included a mile-long parade viewed by four to five thousand spectators — in a city of some fifteen thousand, a third of the population on the sidewalks for a federal cornerstone. The dedication is carried here at the size the record gives it: the commissioned history's single measured sentence. The building's own course is the architecture and government record's; the parade — the city's habit of answering construction with a crowd — is the event, and it stands in the line that runs from the pageant of 1909 through the centennial of 1932.
Sources:
- Peter J. De Kever, Mishawaka: A History — the cornerstone laid in May 1914, the mile-long parade, and the four to five thousand spectators.