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LEG 27 · ITEM 3 · RUN B #130
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 Oliver Chilled Plow family, designed by Charles Alonzo Rich of Lamb & Rich, New York, in Indiana fieldstone; the Oliver family gave the house to the historical society, which acquired it in 1988, furnishings substantially intact, and it is toured as The History Museum's Oliver Mansion. The small house is the Worker's Home on the same campus, opened with the new museum in 1994 and interpreting a working family's household of the 1930s. The two-tellings problem the checklist warns of stands in the present record and prints whole: the visitors bureau's long-standing description presents the Worker's Home as "reflecting a Polish immigrant family in the 1930s," while the bureau's current museum page describes the same house as telling "the story of the community's African American history as well as the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement." Both tellings are in print from the same carrier; which interpretation a visitor meets in November 2026 is not resolved here, and the wholes belong to the South Bend build in any case.
The local half of the test runs negative, shown: no house in Osceola or Penn Township — mill-era, settler or otherwise — stands as a house museum in the National Register record, the county museum rosters or any directory searched for this section (items 10 and 12 carry the rosters). The township's one Register-listed house, the Mishawaka Reservoir Caretaker's Residence of 1938, is a listed residence, not a museum (famous-locations addendum, item 5). The town's moved schoolhouses survive as residences and shops, not as interpreted houses.
Verdict, item 3 — DUG (boundary pair told individually with the two-tellings conflict whole; local house-museum test TESTED NEGATIVE).
Sources: The History Museum and Visit South Bend Mishawaka pages (visitsouthbend.com, both tellings as quoted); National Register record for the Joseph D. Oliver House; Schools for the moved schoolhouses. Searches run 11 Nov 2026.