The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
1975 · WEST WASHINGTON, SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY)
Boundary — South Bend, the county's first district fight, told whole because the checklist's pattern is this fight: the West Washington neighbourhood — the city's mansion street, developed about 1854–1910 along Washington Avenue west of downtown — spent the 1960s losing houses to the inner-beltway clearances in art-66-1. In the 1970s its residents organised with Model Cities support as the Near West Side Neighborhood Organization, and resident Ruth Price surveyed the neighbourhood house by house and carried the application for National Register district status. The district was listed on 17 January 1975 (National Register reference 75000049), with 330 contributing buildings — the first National Register neighbourhood in South Bend, as the University of Notre Dame's Building South Bend project states it — and a few years later the preservation organisation the fight produced, the Southold Heritage Foundation (now South Bend Heritage), was organised to do the work permanently (art-66-6). The Oliver family's donation of Copshaholm to the Northern Indiana Historical Society in 1988 belongs to the same neighbourhood's long defence. The Osceola share is printed plainly: no district fight has ever been fought in the town, and no preservation district — national or local — includes any Osceola ground. The town's additions and plats are counted as parcels in the banked neighbourhoods fragment; none has been surveyed for a district, and the settler for any future fight is the survey record in art-66-4.
Sources: National Register of Historic Places, West Washington Historic District listing (ref. 75000049, listed 17 January 1975); West Washington Neighborhood Association history; Building South Bend (University of Notre Dame); banked neighbourhoods fragment.