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The college-museum test: no college on this ground — the Bishops Gallery to Raclin Murphy succession

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The printed test, run as directed: the college and directory registers for Penn Township were run for a university or college museum succession seated here. The result is a clean negative at town frame: no college or university is seated in the town of Osceola in the State of Indiana's eligible-institutions register, in the national list of Indiana colleges and universities, or in any directory this section reached — the county's institutions stand at their own seats, Notre Dame, Saint Mary's and Holy Cross at Notre Dame, Indiana University South Bend in South Bend, and Bethel University in Mishawaka, each the owning sister build's whole. There is therefore no campus museum, and no campus landmark wall, on this ground to succeed anything; the succession the checklist patterns on is the boundary's, and it is printed at boundary size below so the leg carries it without claiming it.

The boundary succession, whole as a boundary article: Notre Dame's art museum descends in three dated houses. The collection begins in 1875 in the university's Main Building, with the Bishops Gallery — sixty portraits of American bishops painted by the Vatican artist Luigi Gregori, whom Father Edward Sorin had engaged in 1874 — and the Museum of Indian Antiquities beside it. In 1975 the Fred B. Snite family funded a purpose-built museum (a $2 million gift, in the museum's own family history; the building, some 70,000 square feet to Ambrose Richardson's design), and the Snite Museum of Art opened in 1980 and housed the collection until 2023. On December 1, 2023 the collection — by then more than 30,000 objects, with origins the museum dates to 1875 — reopened in the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, a new 70,000-square-foot, Robert A.M. Stern Architects building at the campus edge on Angela Boulevard, named for its lead benefactors Ernestine Raclin and Carmen and Chris Murphy; the old Snite building continues as the Snite Research Center in the Visual Arts. Admission remains free. The campus wall that is itself a landmark work stands a short walk north in the same build's keeping: Millard Sheets's "Word of Life" mosaic on the Memorial (now Hesburgh) Library — 134 feet high by 68 feet wide, 324 panels of some 6,700 granite pieces — installed in spring 1964 and unveiled at the library's dedication on May 7, 1964, and known everywhere by its stadium nickname. One element of the checklist's pattern was not reached in this section and is printed as unreached rather than filled: the Jean Charlot work at Saint Mary's College named in the Fort Wayne form of the test. It is Saint Mary's own record to settle, and no Osceola claim rides on it either way.

Sources: Indiana Commission for Higher Education, eligible-institutions register, and the list of colleges and universities in Indiana — county institutions at Notre Dame, South Bend and Mishawaka; none at Osceola. Raclin Murphy Museum of Art (Notre Dame), museum history and opening releases (July–December 2023) — the 1875 origins, the Snite gift and 1980 opening, the December 1, 2023 Raclin Murphy opening, 70,000 square feet, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, 30,000-plus objects, free admission. University of Notre Dame Archives, "Memorial Library Dedication 1964," and Notre Dame Facilities — the Word of Life's dimensions, granite count, and May 7, 1964 unveiling. Jean Charlot at Saint Mary's: not reached in this section, printed as such.

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Source: The college-museum test: no college on this ground — the Bishops Gallery to Raclin Murphy succession, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/arts/college-museum-test-no-college-on-this-ground-the/