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Indiana City plat, north bank · 1853–1855
The north bank's hotel is in this record for two years, and its importance is what it became. In 1853 the Rev. Edward Sorin bought the Indiana City Hotel — a public house standing in the rival plat across the river — and installed in it the Sisters of the Holy Cross as Holy Angels Academy, a boarding school for girls: a hotel's rooms, dining room and parlors turned to dormitory, classroom and chapel without changing hands again. The school failed within two years, under Know-Nothing vandalism among its troubles, and about 1855 the building itself was dismantled and carried to the sisters' ground at Bertrand, where it became the first building on the campus of Saint Mary's College. The course is dug whole in this build's Religion fragment; it stands here at the size the ground gives it, because it is the strangest lodging fact in the city's record — Mishawaka's second hotel is the ancestor building of Saint Mary's — and because it marks the north bank's one entry in the trade. After 1855 the north bank has no hotel in the record; the trade stayed on the south bank, at Main and Second, for the rest of the century.
Sources:
- This build's Religion fragment — the 1853 purchase, Holy Angels Academy 1853–55, the building's removal to Saint Mary's; dug whole there.
- South Bend's Hotels & Motels — the academy's South Bend telling and the Bertrand move, boundary-printed from the other bank.