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NEW CARLISLE HISTORIC DISTRICT, REF. 92001653, LISTED DECEMBER 14, 1992 · JEREMIAH SERVICE HOUSE, REF. 00000216, LISTED MARCH 15, 2000
What they are: the strongest documents this build holds for the built town, because a National Register nomination is a sworn-grade research product: researched, evidenced, and reviewed before listing. The district nomination — prepared by Glory-June Grieff in May 1992, listing the district that December 14 — covers some twenty-four acres roughly bounded by Front, Arch, Chestnut and Bray streets, in the Italianate, Italian Villa and Queen Anne styles, with commerce as its area of significance and periods of significance running in bands from 1825 to 1949. The Service House nomination — prepared by Dana Kopkowski in August 1999, listing March 15, 2000 — covers the 1860–61 Italianate house at 302 East Michigan Street (also styled the Old Republic; its address conflict stands in the open file). Both documents stand in the Park Service's NPGallery as federal records — the district's as two PDF assets, the nomination text and the photographs, at roughly seven megabytes and one megabyte respectively — and behind the district stands the survey that generated it, the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory of St. Joseph County (South Bend, 1981), with Grieff's two state historic-preservation context studies ("An Overview of Commerce in Indiana, 1679–1890," 1989; "An Overview of Transportation in Indiana: 1670–1890," 1990, on file with the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology) cited in the nomination's own bibliography. That bibliography is itself a source of the first usefulness: it is a professional's 1992 map of this town's shelf — Stoll, Watt & Wade, the county inventory — and this section's shelf articles lean on it accordingly.
Their limits, printed: a nomination is an argument for significance, written to a thesis; it is strongest on fabric, dates and documentation, and it is not a general history. And one conflict the build prints whole lives on this ground: the nomination text, as carried in the district's reference article, gives Michigan Street as "forty-five feet" wide, where Howard's quotation of the 1835 plat gives one hundred feet. The recorded plat is the settler, and the nomination read at its own seat — the NPGallery text, rather than in carriage — rides with it; both stand in the open file as one question. Township-boundary note, printed so the district's evidence is not over-read: two further listed properties stand in Olive Township but outside the town — the Haven Hubbard Home on Chicago Trail near Hamilton (its nomination text was read's scouting through its NPGallery asset) and the Studebaker Clubhouse and Tree Sign — and they belong to the township's record, not the town's.
Principal sources: National Park Service, National Register records and NPGallery assets for refs. 92001653 and 00000216 (asset records read first-hand; nomination prose read through the reference articles that carry it, at that carriage strength); the Indiana historic sites inventory tradition behind the district as stated in the nomination record.