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1840–1921 · MICHIGAN AND LASALLE, SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY)
Boundary — one corner, house to house: the southwest corner of LaSalle and Michigan streets in South Bend carried the Sheridan House from 1840 — the hotel the National Register nomination and the Building South Bend record both name as the site's first house — until 1921, when the nine-story LaSalle Hotel rose on the same site, directly opposite the Chicago, South Bend and South Shore station, and took the corner's trade for the railroad age. The nomination's phrase is the chain in one line: "Built in 1921, the LaSalle Hotel replaced an earlier hotel on the same site, the 1840 Sheridan House." Eighty-one years, two houses, one corner, no gap in the succession that the record shows — the Exchange-to-Sheridan pattern of the floor instance, run whole on this ground's busiest hotel corner. The technology limb of the row was tested rather than assumed: the floor instance's pattern is a hotel technology first (the Grand Central's first elevator), and no hotel on this ground — not the LaSalle, not the Hoffman, not the Oliver — is credited in any source reached with a technology first of that kind; the Oliver's documented distinction is constructional, not mechanical (a fireproof steel skeleton with hollow-tile arches, told in art-69-6), and the LaSalle Annex's is conceptual (the city's first multi-use building, art-69-6). The test's result is printed as its result: no hotel technology first is documented for this ground in the open record; settler for any residue, the Tribune's hotel coverage and the nomination files read at page strength. Osceola's share is the standing one: the town has no corner of this kind, because it has no house.
Sources: National Register nomination, LaSalle Hotel (Downtown South Bend MRA, 1985); Building South Bend, property record ND-SB-00229; technology test across the nomination files and hotel record reached, November 2026.