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The library's official history timeline and locations record
The downtown seat ran: the Board of Education's own building at 304 South Main Street in 1896 — "The Castle," South Bend's Pride — demolished in 1958 and replaced on the site by the Betty Ruth Spiro Memorial Library (1960), named for a donor and her daughter; a new Main Library dedicated in 1992 on the original site; and the renovated Main's grand reopening on 14 November 2021, with its Community Learning Center (305 South Michigan) opening 10 January 2022. Main today keeps the system's longest hours and houses the Local & Family History department the sources fragment describes — the room where this town's paper record is actually consulted. The Castle-to-2021 course prints here in one paragraph deliberately: it is South Bend's building history, and it enters Roseland's build only as the seat of the system the town belongs to.