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LEG 28 · ITEM 6 · RUN B #144
A departed institution leaves a building, and the building becomes a location in its own right — this ground's forwarding addresses are a schoolhouse, a plat, and (at the boundary) a hall: Osceola's clearest forwarding address is its District No. 5 schoolhouse. Built in the early 1850s on what is now Lincolnway West near Grand Avenue, the one-room school was afterwards moved east on Lincolnway into the town and lived a sequence of second lives that Kiracofe follows whole: remodeled successively as a residence, a barber shop, a used-car garage and a plumbing shop, standing in his last sighting a few feet west of Henderson's Barber Shop, with the blacksmith Mr. Baker living in the former schoolhouse as early as 1884–85. The building outlasted its famous use — the township's graded-school beginning — by a century of trades, and its address-history is a location record of exactly the kind this item asks for. Its neighbor tells the same story shorter: the Vesey schoolhouse's replacement was likewise moved into Osceola and stood as a private residence on Washington Street into the late 1960s. The 1837 plat ground is the negative twin: the plat vacated 31 January 1842 left no building at all, and its forwarding address is a highway — the main Elkhart–Toledo road runs through the original plat's site, fame's address forwarded to a roadbed. At the boundary, at pointer size: the downtown South Bend building the College Football Hall of Fame vacated in December 2012 (museums addendum, item 12) stands as that institution's forwarding address, its afterlife its home build's to tell.
Verdict, item 6 — DUG (local forwarding addresses told as locations; the Hall's building at pointer size).
Sources: Schools (District No. 5 course and afterlives; Vesey move — Kiracofe 1968 text as carried there); The Story of Osceola (the 1837 plat's site under the highway; vacatur 31 Jan 1842); College Football Hall of Fame record (departure Dec 2012). As of November 2026.