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317 Lincolnway East · Bed and breakfast from the restoration era
Mishawaka's one non-chain lodging with a documented course is a mansion that took guests to save itself. The Beiger Mansion — built 1903 for Martin V. Beiger of the Mishawaka Woolen Company, the Ball Band fortune's own house — burned in 1975, and concerned citizens funded its restoration, De Kever records, "by running a restaurant and bed-and-breakfast in the building": the inn was the rescue's financing, guests' fees against the restoration's bills. The house was sold to a private buyer in 1992, and the lodging use outlived the rescue: De Kever's present tense has it that today "The Beiger" includes a bed-and-breakfast and hosts receptions, weddings and other gatherings, and its National Register record describes a six-bedroom bed and breakfast and event facility. The mansion itself — its architecture, its family, its fire — belongs to this build's Wealth and Architecture record; it stands in the hotels file at pointer size because the use is this section's: for half a century the city's most distinctive room has been a bedroom in a woolen manufacturer's house on the Lincolnway.
Sources:
- De Kever, city history writings on the Beiger Mansion — the 1975 fire, the restaurant and bed-and-breakfast restoration financing, the 1992 sale, the present use; and the house's National Register record — six-bedroom bed and breakfast and event facility.