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The Carnegie library as a building, tested for this ground: no Carnegie stood here

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TESTED NEGATIVE, GRANT LIST SHOWN · THE DISTRICT'S CARNEGIE IS MISHAWAKA'S, AT POINTER

The search, shown. Indiana's Carnegie record is a closed list: 164 public libraries built from 156 grants ($2,508,664, 1901–1918). That list, read whole November 2026, carries entries for Mishawaka and for South Bend — and no entry for Osceola, in any spelling, and no grant to Penn Township.Finding: there is no Carnegie building to describe on this ground, because none was granted, built or opened here.

At pointer only — because it is Mishawaka's whole, carried at full size in this cluster-family's Libraries addendum — the district's Carnegie stands at 122 North Hill Street, Mishawaka: Eberhart land gift, $30,000 Carnegie grant, construction from September 1915, opened 5 May 1916, Jacobethan Revival in oriental brick with terra-cotta embellishment, architect carried in the Register record as A. F. Wickes et al., listed on the National Register in 1998 (98001048), vacated by the library in 1969 and a restaurant in its present life. The Jacobethan exception the floor describes is real — and it is one city west. This section prints the address and the pointer, and claims nothing more.

Sources:

  1. List of Carnegie libraries in Indiana (164 libraries, 156 grants), read whole November 2026 — no Osceola / Penn Township entry.
  2. NPS NPGallery, Mishawaka Carnegie Library, NRIS 98001048 (122 North Hill; A. F. Wickes et al.; listed 14 August 1998); Evans, “How Mishawaka Moved Its Library” (April 2025) — $30,000 grant, opened 5 May 1916 — boundary sources.
  3. Libraries leg / Sources, banked (MPHPL district; Penn in 1978; no building in town).

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Source: The Carnegie library as a building, tested for this ground: no Carnegie stood here, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/architecture/carnegie-library-as-a-building-tested-for-this-ground/