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May 21, 2026 · 208 North Main Street
The event: The most recent dated gathering in this record is a dedication. On May 21, 2026 — the 101st anniversary of the Tivoli Theatre's opening night — the city's Historic Preservation Commission installed a historical marker at 208 North Main Street, the fourteenth in the city's series, on the application Pete De Kever, the city's historian, had filed on September 30, 2023. The marker's text prints the palace at the city's own figures and calls it, in the city's own words, one of the finest theaters in Indiana. The fight the marker closes is Controversies' — the city bought the theater, voted it a season's protection, and demolished it in 2005 — and the grief is Culture's, in the commissioned history's sentence that Mishawakans "were left to grieve the loss of an irreplaceable jewel." The installation itself, as a civic ceremony on an anniversary date, is an event, and it closes this record where the record properly closes: with the city assembling, twenty-one years after the demolition, to mark the ground where its grandest room stood.
Sources:
- City of Mishawaka, "Marker #14 — The Tivoli Theatre" (mishawaka.in.gov, May 2026) — the application of September 30, 2023, the installation of May 21, 2026, the fourteenth marker, and the marker's text, as carried in the Controversies section of this history.
- Controversies and Culture sections of this history — the Tivoli fight whole and the city's grief in its own history's words.