The ledger of losses, complete and separate from the rescues

1967–2007 AND THE DELISTINGS · SOUTH BEND AND MISHAWAKA (BOUNDARY), WITH THE TOWN'S OWN LOSSES

This ledger stands apart from every rescue in this section, on purpose: the wins may not borrow against uncounted losses. Boundary losses, named with dates: the Oliver Hotel, South Bend's flagship, demolished 1967 (its corner's later life is told in the Hotels & Motels addendum, art-69-10); the ten-story Odd Fellows Building, gone in the urban-renewal era; the Oliver Opera House (built 1885; its auditorium and stage demolished 1955 and the remainder in 1978, on the University of Notre Dame's nomination research); Beman's First Baptist Church (1886), demolished; the Studebaker Auditorium Building (1898), demolished; the downtown YMCA (1908), demolished; the former city hall, demolished 1970; and the Studebaker Stamping Plant — a million and a half square feet on some 31.67 acres — demolished by the city's Redevelopment Commission in 2006–2007. The Register's own removals belong in the same ledger, since delisting by demolition is a loss with paperwork: the Colfax Theater, demolished November 1991 and removed from the Register in 1993; the Morningside Club Residence, burned 18 December 1988; the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Building, removed 2012; and Mishawaka's Tivoli Theater, demolished 2 February 2005. The town's own losses, at the size of their record: the Osceola School is demolished — the banked schools fragment carries the fact with its building-date conflict printed whole there (Kiracofe puts the demolition at 1915; the Ball State surveyors put the replacement building's erection at 1914) — and no second major loss on town ground is named with a date in any source reached. The town ledger is short because the town's documented stock was always small, and it is printed unshortened: one named loss, counted, with the Sanborn and Tribune records named in the sources as the settlers for any fuller count.

Sources: Notre Dame Magazine on Stamper, City and Campus; Building South Bend (University of Notre Dame), public-buildings and Oliver records; National Register delisting record for St. Joseph County (NPS county list, November 2026); banked schools fragment for the Osceola School; South Bend Tribune demolition record and Sanborn record named as settlers for the town count.