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1893–1920s · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY); OSCEOLA HAS NO BREWHOUSE TO CLOSE
For Osceola the row closes as a tested negative in one line: no brewery company was ever incorporated on this ground, no brewhouse was ever built or dated here, and so no Osceola plant has a dry close to print — Prohibition closed nothing in Penn Township because nothing stood here to close (the dry-years policing test is Crime & Public Safety's, and it stands). At boundary size, the county pattern the row describes is real and dated. The Muessel Brewing Company was incorporated in 1893, patriarch Christopher Muessel as president, after forty years as a family operation. The complex's dated fabric — the brewhouse and bottling works on Elwood Avenue — is the fabric the National Register later listed (art-58-8). The dry close for the county's houses came with Indiana's and then national Prohibition: Kamm & Schellinger's pre-Prohibition company runs to 1918 in its chronology and the firm re-emerges in 1933 at North Center Street after repeal (art-58-5) — a dry close and a wet reopening, dated separately, exactly the distinction the row asks for. The Muessel ground's dry years are the interval between the family brewery's Prohibition-era course and Drewry's 1936 purchase (art-58-7); no plant-level 1911-style single brewhouse date was established for the South Bend complex in the open sources reached, and none is borrowed from the floor instance.
Sources: Muessel-Drewry's nomination summary (incorporated 1893); Tavern Trove, Kamm & Schellinger chronology (1918 pre-Prohibition line; 1933 North Center St.); banked Businesses gazetteer censuses and Crime & Public Safety dry-years article.