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Museums — a section run whole for the first time, at boundary size where the seats are other cities'
Collecting before there was a museum: the society of 1867, the refounding of 1895 — and Osceola's own society, dated only at its edges
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This ground's collecting prehistory is the county society's, and it can be dated from the society president's own published history: Timothy E. Howard — the county historian whose 1907 history this build cites throughout — wrote…
The first museum home and its full tenure: eighty-eight years in the Old Courthouse
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The county museum's first lasting home was a courthouse that had itself been moved: the Second St. Joseph County Courthouse, built 1853–55 at Washington and Main in South Bend, was picked up and moved in 1896 — turned around on…
Every house museum individually: the mansion, the worker's house — and no house museum on this ground
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The county's house museums stand together on one South Bend campus, and they are two: the mansion is Copshaholm, the Joseph D. Oliver House at 808 West Washington Street — a 38-room Romanesque Queen Anne house built 1895–96 for…
The present history museum as an institution today: the 1994 move, and its state as of November 2026
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The institution that holds this ground's history today is The History Museum of South Bend, and the move that created its present form is dated: in 1994 the Northern Indiana Historical Society left the Old Courthouse (item 2) for…
Signature collections inside another museum: the league archive — in two houses — and this ground's own papers
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The county's signature collection-inside-a-museum is the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League archive, and its custody is split, which is exactly why it must be printed whole: The History Museum in South Bend serves as…
The oldest possession: the Navarre Cabin, the county's founding object
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The founding object of the county's collecting is a cabin, and it has been collected, moved and collected again for a hundred and thirty years: the Navarre Cabin, built about 1820 by Pierre Freischutz Navarre — the first settler…
The company museum line whole: Studebaker collecting itself, 1887 to the national museum of today
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One company in this county collected itself for eighty years, and the line runs unbroken from a founder's purchase to a national museum: the Studebaker collection began in 1887, when Clement Studebaker bought the carriage that…
The art museum as its own institution: the South Bend Museum of Art
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The county's art museum began as a schoolteacher's bequest, and it has never been part of the history museum's house: the South Bend Museum of Art's own history records that the South Bend Art Center opened in 1947, realizing the…
A museum in the building it documents: the Civil Rights Heritage Center in the Engman Natatorium
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The county holds one museum seated inside its own subject, and the fit is exact: the Engman Public Natatorium at 1040 West Washington Street, South Bend — the city's first public swimming pool, opened 1922 — barred African…
The small museums at true size: named, not omitted for size
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Below the county's four large institutions stands a tier of small museums, and this article names them at the size they actually are: Inside The History Museum's own walls, the Kidsfirst Children's Museum — a hands-on children's…
The newest museum, dated: the Indiana Dinosaur Museum, 2024
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The newest museum in the county opened in the summer of 2024, and it is a private collection made public: the Indiana Dinosaur Museum at 7102 Lincolnway West, South Bend — built by Mark Tarner, founder of the South Bend Chocolate…
The museum that left, the university museums at the boundary, and the county line stated once
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The county's departed museum is the College Football Hall of Fame, and its South Bend era is a whole era, not a footnote: founded by the National Football Foundation in 1951, the Hall first built at Kings Mills, Ohio (opened…