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LEG 27 · ITEM 4 · RUN B #131 · VERIFIED AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
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 a new museum building built on the Copshaholm grounds at 808 West Washington Street, beside the Oliver Mansion it had acquired in 1988 — the pairing of a purpose-built museum with a furnished mansion on one campus that still defines it. The name has succeeded with the institution: founded as the Northern Indiana Historical Society (1867/1895, item 1), carried for a period as the Northern Indiana Center for History, and trading today as The History Museum (its corporate name remains the Northern Indiana Historical Society Inc., as its 2020 Navarre Cabin filings show). Its stated mission is the heritage of the St. Joseph River Valley region — the frame inside which Osceola's material sits as one town's share among the valley's.
Its present state, verified November 2026: open at 808 West Washington Street, South Bend, beside the Studebaker National Museum; accredited by the American Alliance of Museums in 2015; holding, by its own published count, approximately 600,000 two- and three-dimensional items in its archives, with a searchable online archive; giving guided Oliver Mansion tours twice daily; operating the Kidsfirst Children's Museum inside its walls (item 10); and, since May 2024, keeper of the Navarre Cabin on its campus (item 6). For this build it is also a working settler: it holds Kiracofe's 1968 town-history text and published its 2014 online history of Osceola — the museum as this ground's archive of first resort, at boundary size, its whole the South Bend build's.
Verdict, item 4 — DUG (boundary size, as of November 2026).
Sources: The History Museum (historymuseumsb.org, homepage and Navarre Cabin page, read Nov 2026); Visit South Bend Mishawaka; Clio; City of South Bend Historic Preservation Commission filings of the Northern Indiana Historical Society Inc. (2020). Searches run 11 Nov 2026.