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Losses first: what went, unanswered

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NO PRESERVATION RESPONSE TO ANY OF THEM IS RECORDED

The Wabash combination depot was torn down, and no carrier reached records anyone in this town objecting. The banked trains file carries its course: still working in January 1978 (depot operator N. A. Saylor, the one station agent named in the record); a historic-structures survey of the surviving depots of its design records North Liberty's as "torn down" — a 1986-status comparison, not a demolition date, which stands as the banked gap G-W1T-1 (after January 1978). The Three I / CI&S / NYC depot is not a counted loss: its site is settled first-hand and it stood about 1962 in a dated photograph, but its fate after 1962 is not found (gap G-W1T-2) — fate-unknown, never demolished in print. The nineteenth century's fire loss is the Cole Brothers planing mill, built 1866 and burned 1871 — answered at the time by reincorporation (1873), not by any preservation impulse the record names. St. Philip's Episcopal church, struck by lightning and severely damaged in 1892, is kept out of the losses: the building survived and serves the Church of the Brethren today. School buildings lost: none established — the 1868 high-school building's site and fate are stated in no carrier reached (gap G-SC-2), and the fate of the North Liberty High School building after the consolidation into Glenn is likewise unstated (gap G-SC-3); both stand as fate-unknown. The full ledger, with the corridors and the cemetery losses, is this section's own article below.

Banked Railroads (NL-5), Businesses, Churches & Religion, Schools; gaps G-W1T-1/2, G-SC-2/3 as banked.

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Source: Losses first: what went, unanswered, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/historic-preservation/losses-first-what-went-unanswered/