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1907–1922 · South Bend (boundary)
Howard's 1907 roster gives the order whole for the county seat, in its three period parts: the subordinate lodge, Crusade Lodge No. 14; its uniformed branch, the Uniform Rank, South Bend Company No. 12; and the women's temple, Moonlight Temple, Rathbone Sisters No. 255 — Rathbone Sisters being the Pythian Sisters' name in that era, printed as Howard prints it. The order's permanence in the city is a building: the Knights of Pythias Building at 224 W Jefferson, South Bend — seven stories, built 1922, with Crusade Lodge on the top two floors — stands on the National Register (nomination 85001219), the Pythian castle of the county seat in brick. The order at Osceola: no Pythian lodge, company, or temple seats in the town or township in any record reached; the whole Pythian apparatus of this ground was South Bend's, fifteen years after Howard still building.
Sources: Howard (1907), vol. 1, Part 73 record; National Register nomination 85001219 for the Knights of Pythias Building.