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Durable named rooms, individually: two cafés, a tavern named in 2000, and an Irish pub

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the room succession the record DOES hold, at this section's size

What the record holds, room by room: The hotels' bars stand at pointer — the stage-era and railroad-era hotels (Cranmer's/Ivens' house; the 1916 roll's Fisher and Smith hotels) are the Businesses file's whole, and no separate bar-room name for any of them was recovered. The durable rooms are the cafés, carried here at this section's size without duplicating their business courses: Miller's Home Café, the Michigan Street café whose building at 112 East Michigan the town's museum now occupies — a room so durable its second life is the town's memory itself; and Moser's Austrian Cafe, 201 East Michigan, an Austrian café in a small Indiana town, still trading in 2026 with its Friday fish fry filling its seats in the current record. One tavern stands named in the modern record: the Still Tavern, whose owner Jim Banaszak the South Bend Tribune names in 2000 as a vice president of the town's Business & Professional Organization helping stage the Historical Days booths — a working tavern in the town's civic life at the century's turn; its own founding and closing lines were not recovered in the record reached, and it prints at that size. And the present tense belongs to Kate O'Connor's Irish Pub, 415 East Michigan Street: opened in 2007 by Steve and Mary Brooks — who met in Cork, Ireland, and spent a full year making over the room before opening — and bought in the current generation by Amanda and Mike Aurenz, themselves former regulars, its walls still lined with Irish poems, Guinness advertisements and photographs in the Tribune's April 2026 account. That is the whole succession the record holds: hotels at pointer, two cafés, one tavern named once, one pub. It is a short list, and it is the town's.

Sources:

  1. South Bend Tribune, April 2026, "Authenticity and consistency established at Kate O'Connor's Irish Pub" (415 E. Michigan St.; opened 2007 by Steve and Mary Brooks; the Aurenz purchase; hours and room described) — read November 2026.
  2. South Bend Tribune, 2000, "New Carlisle revitalizes Historical Days" (Jim Banaszak, owner of the Still Tavern) — the tavern at its single naming.
  3. This build's Businesses file (Miller's Home Café and Moser's Austrian Cafe as businesses, whole) — carried here at pointer-plus size per this section's rule; Moser's at 201 E. Michigan in the 2026 listings.

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Source: Durable named rooms, individually: two cafés, a tavern named in 2000, and an Irish pub, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/new-carlisle/bars-nightclubs/durable-named-rooms-individually-two-cafes-a-tavern-named/