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Churches as buildings, and the plant as built fabric

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1903 – present

Two built facts carry the sacred and industrial stock at the size the record reaches. For the churches: the North Liberty Church of the Brethren's house was purchased from another denomination in 1903 and remodeled in 1923, and was operated jointly with the Oak Grove house until the congregations separated in 1917 (Shultz, History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana, 1952). No survey of the town's unlisted church buildings — their dates, styles or builders — was reached, and the unlisted-sacred-fabric survey the checklist asks for stands as a named gap, its settler a SHAARD pull for the town's church addresses read against the banked religion section's congregation roll. For industry: the aluminum plant in the North Liberty Industrial Park, in the southwest quadrant at South Main Street and Industrial Parkway, is the town's largest single built object — named "Sapa North Liberty" as the anchor manufacturer in the 2015 Comprehensive Plan and operated today by Hydro Extrusion USA, LLC, on Hydro's own March 2026 carrier — but no carrier reached dates its buildings, names its builder or describes its fabric, and its architectural treatment stands as a named gap rather than a paragraph of atmosphere.

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Source: Churches as buildings, and the plant as built fabric, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/architecture/churches-as-buildings-and-the-plant-as-built-fabric/