The unnamed houses, counted and named as unnamed: one name in the gazetteer, the rest a counted gap

the "Theatres and Halls" census by edition reached — GAP-NC5-ART-2, printed as a count

Count the record's rooms honestly and the count is one name and a class: in Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1884–85, the statewide "Theatres and Halls" list carries exactly one New Carlisle entry — Emerick's Opera House — whose whole treatment stands in this build's Arts & Culture file and whose site, builder, capacity, bills and end are all unrecovered (GAP-NC5-ART-2). The later gazetteer editions reachable online were run for the same list and the town's entries: the 1916–17 edition's New Carlisle roll, read whole for this build, names no theatre and no hall among its forty-one businesses — and one trap in that edition is named here so no later digger falls into it: a "Princess Theater" line in the 1916–17 text stands immediately before the New Carlisle heading and belongs to the preceding town's entry, not this one. Behind the named house stands the counted-but-unnamed class: the rooms this town certainly used theatrically without the record naming them as theatres — the school auditorium of the town's school generations, and the lodge halls in theatrical use (Terre Coupee Lodge No. 204's hall over the stores and, from 1876, in the brick block whose upper story the lodge controlled; the Good Templars' lodge room) — counted as a class of at least three room-lines across the record's generations, every one of them unnamed as a theatre in any source reached. The picture-house succession stands inside the same gap: no named New Carlisle picture house surfaces between the opera house and the present. The census therefore prints as a counted gap, in one line: named houses, 1 (1884–85); named houses in 1916–17, 0; unnamed rooms in theatrical use, a class, uncounted by name; picture houses named, 0. Settlers for the whole row: the Sanborn fire-insurance sheets for New Carlisle, the town press runs in Hoosier State Chronicles, and the society's collections at 112 East Michigan.

Sources:

1. R. L. Polk & Co., Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1884–85, Vol.
2. R. L. Polk & Co., Indiana Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1916–17, New Carlisle entry read whole, November 2026 (no theatre or hall named; the "Princess Theater" line belonging to the preceding entry, noted).
3. Chapman (1880), Olive Township chapter (Terre Coupee Lodge's rooms: over Borden's store 1856–62, over Service's store to 1876, the brick block's upper story thereafter) — the halls class at its document.