The first museum home: a building the record names only as “another town building”

the first of three homes, unnamed and undated in every source reached

The three-home course is settled; the first home is not: Historic New Carlisle, Inc. keeps the town’s museum, and the South Bend Tribune’s society account of 28 June 2026 states the course in one sentence — “This is the third location, beginning with another town building and later at the Old Republic.” The second home is the Jeremiah Service House (the Old Republic), and the third is 112 East Michigan Street, the former Miller’s Home Café, where the museum stands as of November 2026 under director Dana Groves, with hours Tuesday through Friday 10 to 4 and Saturday 10 to 2. Of the first home, no source reached gives more than the Tribune’s own words: it was “another town building.” The society’s own website, read, carries the town’s founder, early settlers, businesses and schools and its famous-visitors exhibit, but no history of the museum’s own homes and no dates for any of the three tenures; the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association’s turn-by-turn guide knows the Service House housed the society and that it has moved, and dates neither stay; Indiana Landmarks’ success-story account of the Old Republic rescue knows the house “functioned as a community event venue and B&B, with a small history museum,” and dates neither the museum’s arrival there nor its leaving. The searches run — the society’s site, the Tribune’s June 2026 account read at the page, the Lincoln Highway guides in their 2024 and 2026 forms, and the Landmarks record — therefore close this row as a NAMED GAP, printed plainly: the first museum home’s identity and the full tenure of all three homes stand undated in the open record. The settler is the one the audit named: Historic New Carlisle, Inc.’s own records, read with the South Bend Tribune’s society coverage across the years of the moves, neither of which is reachable in the open record at the strength this question needs.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune, 28 June 2026, read at the page (“This is the third location, beginning with another town building and later at the Old Republic”; the museum at 112 E. Michigan St., formerly Miller’s Home Café; director Dana Groves; the hours) — the paper of record, and the fullest telling reached.
2. Historic New Carlisle, Inc., the society’s own website (historicnewcarlisle.org), read November 2026 — the museum, its exhibits and its shop; no homes history and no tenure dates carried.
3. Indiana Lincoln Highway Association, turn-by-turn guides to the 1913 route, 2024 and 2026 editions (the Service House “also housed Historic New Carlisle, which has recently moved to a new location in the center of town”) — the move known, undated.
4. Indiana Landmarks, 10 Most Endangered success stories: Old Republic (the restored house “functioned as a community event venue and B&B, with a small history museum”) — the second home’s museum use confirmed, its dates not given.
5. The searches run for the first home’s identity and for any dated tenure, November 2026 — negative at the strength stated; settler named in the article.