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1853–present · THE LISTED BREWERY AND ITS SECOND LIFE
The ground: The Kamm and Schellinger Brewery at 100 Center Street, listed on the National Register on 11 October 1979, is the city's one industrial building of Register standing — the brewery John Wagner built in 1853, bought in 1870 by Adolph Kamm and Clemens Dick, and incorporated in 1883 with Adolph Kamm president. The Architecture record carries the building whole, including its 1853 stack; the breweries' course stands in this history's businesses and wineries-and-distilleries records. The address's modern fame is of a different kind: as 100 Center, the complex became the city's most-reported redevelopment ground — the $41.5 million project whose approvals course, selective demolition and undecided completion the Current & Today record of this history carries at full size, verified to November 2026. Few small-city addresses appear in their region's press as often as this one has across two centuries, first as a brewery and then as a question.
The brewer's house: The complex holds one more nationally circulated address. The Hacienda, at 706 Lincolnway West — the brewer's house of 1853, within the brewery's own ground — is the single address to which the nation's haunted-house compilations assign this city, and the only one they agree on. The Haunted Places record of this history owns that file whole and prints its verdict at the head of the file: a one-address city, its two compilation deaths tested against the record and both failed. It is carried here in one paragraph because fame, even lore fame, is this chapter's business: more people outside Indiana have met Mishawaka at 706 Lincolnway West, in a ghost list, than at any address in this chapter except the McKinley Highway plant.
Sources:
- National Register of Historic Places — Kamm and Schellinger Brewery, 100 Center St., listed 11 October 1979 (reference no. 79000042).
- The Architecture record of this history — the brewery as a building, the 1853 stack and the 100 Center.
- The Current & Today record of this history — the 100 Center redevelopment: the $41.5 million project, the April 2026 approvals course, completion stated as unknown in the mayor's own word of 30 April 2026.
- The Haunted Places record of this history — the Hacienda, 706 Lincolnway West: the house of 1853, the lore from 1992, and the tested verdicts.