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LEG 28 · ITEM 5 · RUN B #143 · NATIONAL REGISTER / NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK TEST
The checklist asks for the Landmark houses at Register size, not inflated — and running the test for this ground first requires saying where the Landmark actually stands: St. Joseph County carries 102 properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places, and exactly one National Historic Landmark: Tippecanoe Place, 620 West Washington Street, South Bend — Clement Studebaker's 40-room Richardsonian Romanesque mansion of 1889 (Henry Ives Cobb, architect), listed on the Register 2 July 1973 and designated a National Historic Landmark 22 December 1977, a restaurant and event venue in November 2026. Beside it at Register size — listed, not a Landmark, and not inflated into one — Copshaholm, the Joseph D. Oliver House of 1895–96, The History Museum's mansion (museums addendum, item 3). Both houses are South Bend's, told here at boundary size; their wholes belong to that build.
The test's local results are the article's real content, and they are two. First, Penn Township holds exactly one Register listing of its own: the Mishawaka Reservoir Caretaker's Residence, 16581 Chandler Boulevard — a house built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration for the caretaker of the Mishawaka Reservoir, on township ground south of Mishawaka, listed 14 August 1998 (ref. 98001053). It is a township listing wearing the neighboring city's name — the same mailing-seat geometry this build meets everywhere — and it is a residence, not a museum or a famous site: Penn's Register presence is one WPA caretaker's house, printed at that true size. Second, the Town of Osceola itself returns no National Register listing at all: no property in the town appears in the county list, the NPS records or any index searched under its name. That negative has a live use — a volunteer museum database entry for the town's historical society asserts that Osceola Town Hall "was built in 1899 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places"; the assertion fails this test whole (the town hall's own record stands in Government, and no listing exists for it), and it is printed here as a failed claim so it stops traveling. The County Line (Ash Road) bridge's HAER documentation stands as before — engineering-record strength, not a Register listing, and not promoted into one.
Verdict, item 5 — DUG (Register test run and printed whole: Landmark at size, township listing named, town's negative and the failed town-hall claim printed).
Sources: National Register listings for St. Joseph County (102 listings, one NHL; NPS list current through Sept 2026 postings); NPGallery asset record, Mishawaka Reservoir Caretaker's Residence (ref. 98001053, listed 14 Aug 1998; 16581 Chandler Blvd.; WPA, 1938); Tippecanoe Place records (listed 2 July 1973; NHL 22 Dec 1977); museumsdatabase.com town-hall claim, tested and failed. Searches run 11 Nov 2026.