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The Register ledger: twelve sites, one removal

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The federal ledger, enumerated from the National Park Service's county list, complete through the Service's postings of September 2026. Mishawaka's National Register listings, in the order they were made, are: the Beiger House, 317 East Lincolnway, listed 1973 (the date conflict is printed in the note to this section — the Park Service's record gives 28 August 1973; Mishawaka's own accounts, and this build's Museums file, give 7 September 1973); the Dodge House, 415 East Lincolnway, 8 September 1978; the Kamm and Schellinger Brewery, 100 Center Street, 11 October 1979; the Eller–Hosford House, 722 East Lincolnway, 27 January 1983; the Merrifield–Cass House — the Register's name for the house also carried as the Garth Stroup Home — 816 East Lincolnway, 16 June 1983; the Ellis–Schindler House, 900 West Lincolnway, 18 December 1990; the Battell Park Historic District, 11 January 1996; the Mishawaka Carnegie Library, 122 North Hill Street, 14 August 1998; the Mishawaka Fire Station No. 4, 2319 Lincolnway East, 18 September 2017; the Normain Heights Historic District, 20 March 2002 — out of sequence here to keep the district with its kind; and St. Joseph's Parish Square, bounded by West Third, West Fourth, South Mill and South Spring Streets, 7 June 2022, the newest listing in the record. That is eleven listings inside the city's limits. The twelfth Register site of the city's own count stands just outside them: the Mishawaka Reservoir Caretaker's Residence, 16581 Chandler Boulevard, listed 14 August 1998, which the Park Service's list places in Penn Township, "south of Mishawaka." The city's "12 National Register sites" and the enumerated eleven reconcile exactly if the caretaker's residence is counted, as its name invites, as Mishawaka's; the reconciliation is printed as arithmetic, and the boundary is printed with it.

The removals column of the county list holds one Mishawaka name. Of the four properties in St. Joseph County once listed and since removed, three are South Bend's. The fourth is the Tivoli Theater, 208 North Main Street — listed 1 April 1998, removed 24 March 2005, its description in the county list reading in full: "Demolished on February 2, 2005." The fight that preceded the demolition stands whole in this history's Controversies account and is not re-argued here; the Register fact belongs to this ledger: Mishawaka is the rare city whose federal removals list and whose preservation movement were made by the same building. The buildings themselves — their architecture, their builders, their fabric — are this history's Architecture account's, banking in parallel; what this ledger owns is the acts of listing, in sequence, as the movement's scorecard.

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Source: The Register ledger: twelve sites, one removal, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/historic-preservation/register-ledger-twelve-sites-one-removal/