The Two Nominations as Sources: Bibliographies Read Whole

Commercial Historic District (2014) · North Liberty Park (2007)

The Commercial Historic District form — prepared by Kurt West Garner of Partners in Preservation, dated 15 May 2012, filed 2014, for the fourteen contributing and seven noncontributing resources along State Road 23 between Center and Harrison — rests its history on a named shelf: Chapman and Howard; the 1875 atlas; three items from the North Liberty News of 1960 — "Masons Observe Centennial" (26 May), "New Building to House Laundry" (6 October), "New Home for Community State Bank" (21 April) — the last being the item that corroborates this build's bank record from the town's own paper; Saltzgaber's Genesis, the citation that is the book's only attestation; the town's section of the 1940 county telephone directory; the three Sanborn maps; the federal censuses of Liberty Township for 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920; and the News's advertisements of 27 May 1912. Its narrative settles smaller facts this build uses at its strength: the Herald established in 1892 and run four years, its office and printing plant at 139 North Main Street identified on the 1909 and 1917 Sanborn maps; Dell Woodward as the News's publisher in the early 1900s; the three churches of 1880 named as Chapman names them; and a population line of 977 in 1940, 1,241 in 1960, and about 1,250 in 1978. Its one imprecision prints as what it is: the form gives incorporation as 1894 without month or day, where Howard and the 1991 newspaper column give 8 June 1894 — a precision difference, not a date conflict. The Park form — prepared by Glory-June Greiff in August 2005, for the seven acres at 309 North Jefferson Street and their WPA work of 1935 and 1937 — rests differently, and the difference is itself instructive: its bibliography defers to the multiple-property listing's bibliography rather than reprinting it; it cites the Walkerton Area Historical Society's archives outright; it rests on interviews of 30 October 2005 with Alfred Heim, a North Liberty native whose brother supervised the park work in the 1930s, and Richard Heim, a WPA worker who did its stone work; and it rests on Frederick Karst's Potato Creek: From Pioneer Mill Stream to Gentle Lake (1980), the creek's own book, which stands on the state library's county list in the Indiana reference collection. Even the listing's name carries a small conflict, printed whole: federal asset metadata calls it "New Deal Resources in Indiana State Parks MPS," while the form itself names it "New Deal Work Relief Projects in St. Joseph County." A short-form naming variance prints likewise: the district is the "North Liberty Commercial Historic District" in the federal record, and appears shortened to "North Liberty Historic District" in a widely used reference — the federal form governs. Both forms stand in the federal gallery as assets any checker can open; this build's architecture and parks legs stand on them, and this article is their receipt.