Mishawaka Landmarks, Architecture and Neighborhoods

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Mishawaka Landmarks, Architecture and Neighborhoods

Landmarks, buildings, maps, parks and neighborhoods.

Landmarks & Neighborhoods

§ 61Famous Mishawaka Landmarks: The Places the World Knows, TestedMishawaka is not a famous city, and this chapter does not pretend otherwise. It has no Golden Dome, no nationally watched stadium, no pilgrimage ground. What it has is a shorter and stranger fame file: a factory that…13 entry pages § 62Mishawaka Architecture: The Built CityMishawaka's built record is small enough to hold whole and old enough to matter. Eleven properties inside the city stand on the National Register of Historic Places today — five houses, a brewery, a library, a fire…20 entry pages § 63Historic Preservation in Mishawaka: How Mishawaka Keeps and Marks Its PastMishawaka's preservation story is younger than its neighbour's and smaller, and the record says so plainly. South Bend wrote its preservation ordinance in 1973; Mishawaka's city government dates its Historic…13 entry pages § 64Historic Maps of Mishawaka: The drawn record of a city that began as an insetMishawaka was a mapped place before it was a mapped city. For the first thirty years of its existence the town appears on paper only as lines inside other people's maps — a township square in the federal survey, a mill…14 entry pages § 65Mishawaka Parks and City PlanningThe founding section carries the parks system park by park and the Riverwalk stage by stage. This addendum carries the two lines that section left short: the system as a planned whole — every master plan the record…3 entry pages § 25Mishawaka Neighborhoods: Four Plats, Two Banks, and the Map They BecameMishawaka was not founded once; it was filed four times. Between 1833 and 1837 four separate town plats were laid out on the two banks of the St. Joseph River at the rapids — an iron company's village and a merchant's…19 entry pages

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