Preservation and the Arts as Corporations: Historic New Carlisle, Inc.

Row 9 — the museum society's corporate record at published strength, and the arts-corporation test, as of November 2026

One corporation carries both halves: In New Carlisle, preservation and the arts stand as corporations in exactly one body: Historic New Carlisle, Inc., the museum society — the organization that rescued the Service House in 1998 and keeps the town's local-history museum. Its corporate record, at the strength the published record gives, is this. The register carries it as HISTORIC NEW CARLISLE INCORPORATED, 304 E Michigan St, a Charitable Organization, exempt 01/1991. The Internal Revenue Service record behind that line gives the society's employer identification number as 35-1778489, its organization type as a corporation, its classification as a Charitable Organization, its affiliation as independent, and its ruling date as January 1991; the same published record carries a December 2013 tax period with assets of $558,714, income of $159,315 and revenue of $153,358. The society's working address in the town's own directory is 112 East Michigan Street, PO Box 107 — the museum's address, distinct from the 304 E Michigan Street address on the federal line, and both print here as they stand.

Beyond the society, the arts-corporation test returns a negative at register strength: swept whole, the 68 lines hold no arts council, no community-theatre corporation, no gallery or arts-center corporation for this town. The nearest the register comes is the society itself and the festival corporation, NEW CARLISLE HOMETOWN DAYS INC (09/2015) — a celebration body, told with the fairs. So the printed finding is: preservation has a corporation here, and it is the museum society; the arts, as corporations, have no second seat.

One limb of this row closes as a named gap inside a mixed result. The society's Form 990 series and its Indiana Secretary of State corporate filings stand UNPULLED in the build — they are item 15 of the sources file's pull list — and the Indiana Secretary of State's business search is form-driven and was not reached. What the published Internal Revenue Service record gives is printed above; the 990 and state-filings pulls remain the settler for the society's fuller corporate course, and this article does not reach past them.

Sources:

1. IRS exempt-organizations register for New Carlisle, IN 46552, re-read 11 November 2026 (TaxExemptWorld publication of the IRS list): HISTORIC NEW CARLISLE INCORPORATED, 304 E Michigan St, Charitable Organization, exempt status date 01/1991, with asset and income ranges in the $100,000+ and $50,000+ bands as the page prints them; and the whole-68 scan for any further arts or preservation corporation.
2. OrgCouncil's publication of the IRS record for Historic New Carlisle Incorporated (orgcouncil.com/ein/351778489), read via search 11 November 2026: EIN 35-1778489; IRS Exempt Status Ruling Date January 1991; Organization Type Corporation; Organization Classification Charitable Organization; Affiliation Independent; December 2013 tax period — Asset $558,714, Income $159,315, Revenue $153,358.
3. New Carlisle Business and Community Association, DIRECTORY (ncbca.net/directory.html), read via search 11 November 2026: "Historic New Carlisle, INC, Attn: Dana Groves, 112 East Michigan Street, PO Box 107, New Carlisle, 574-654-3897."
4. Banked build facts: Historic New Carlisle, Inc., the museum society, rescued the Service House in 1998; its 990/Secretary-of-State pulls stand UNPULLED in the sources file's pull list, item 15.