The Other Districts — the Register's Survey of the Neighborhoods

1997 – 2026

The later districts: After West Washington and Chapin Park, the register filled in the city's neighborhoods in waves. The St. Casimir Parish Historic District, listed 16 January 1997, takes in the Polish parish complex on the southwest side — church, school and rectory ground bounded by Arnold and West Sample streets and the former Conrail tracks; the congregations are Religion's, the district as a built ensemble is the register's. The South Michigan Street Historic District (15 December 1997) preserves the near-south commercial corridor at Monroe and Michigan, and the Colonial Gardens Commercial Historic District (15 December 1997) the Mishawaka Avenue strip from 2919 to 3027. The class of 18 February 1999 added the East Washington Street Historic District, the Howard Park Historic District along the river between Jefferson and Wayne, and the Singer Manufacturing–South Bend Lathe district on Madison Street, entered below with the industrial buildings. The West LaSalle Avenue Historic District followed on 18 September 2013, and Leeper Park — the riverfront park that held the Navarre Cabin for a century — was itself listed on 15 June 2000.

The newest districts: The register's most recent South Bend districts are working-class neighborhoods of the southeast side, listed together on 16 January 2026: the Edgewater Place Historic District, between Lincolnway, the river, Monroe Street and Bronson, and the Taylor's Field Historic District, between Monroe, Bronson, St. Joseph and Clinton streets. Their listing, fifty years after West Washington's, marks the register's own widening — from the industrialists' street to the districts of the people who worked for them — and as of this writing they are the newest historic districts in the city.

Sources:

1. National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Joseph County, Indiana (National Park Service list through September 2026) — the listing dates, boundaries and addresses of the St. Casimir Parish, South Michigan Street, Colonial Gardens, East Washington Street, Howard Park, West LaSalle Avenue, Leeper Park, Edgewater Place and Taylor's Field districts.