The long-lived houses, tested at full size: none proven

Tested November 2026

The test was run hard, and it returns no proven long-lived sales house. No dealership founded long ago and still operating in North Liberty was proven in any carrier reached; in particular, the c.1920 Hinkle Ford point was vacant by 1929 on the nomination's own record — the town's first franchise house was not a long-lived one. The modern listings the search returned are service and repair, not franchise dealerships: Clyde's Steering and Automotive Service Center at 615 South State Street, whose "Clyde's Steering, Service, North Liberty" advertisement already appears in the town's 1967 high-school yearbook — a longevity pointer for a service shop, continuity unproven, and not a sales dealership; and Eli's Automotive LLC at the same address, "established 2024" per its own listing. One corridor seller stands boundary-flagged and undated: Veldman Auto Sales, 59905 Crumstown Highway, a North Liberty postal address on township ground outside the town, a motorcycle and automotive dealership per its listing with no founding date found — printed flagged, and not crowned the town's long-lived house. (A Junge Ford of North Liberty, founded 1976, belongs to North Liberty, Iowa, and is excluded on the record as that town's, not this one's.) The closing line, as proven: no long-lived sales house stands for North Liberty; the longest documented auto-trade occupancy is the ground itself — the Center-and-Main corner running livery (c.1905) to Ford sales and service (c.1920) to the service garage whose c.1935 building stands at 101 West Center today.