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Standing in the 1930s · Demolished in an early urban-renewal project
Lead: The Jefferson Hotel is documented in the record reached at exactly one sentence's size, and it is printed at that size rather than dressed in inference. The National Register's Hoffman Hotel narrative, surveying the downtown of the 1930s, counts five major hotels — the LaSalle, its Annex, and the Hoffman at the Michigan and LaSalle intersection, and "the other two being the Oliver Hotel and the Jefferson Hotel, demolished during an early urban renewal project." That is the whole of the reached record: the Jefferson was one of the city's five major downtown hotels in the 1930s, and urban renewal demolished it. A directed search of the web record for this section returned the Jefferson Hotels of other cities and nothing of South Bend's house — no builder, no opening year, no site, no room count.
The gap is named here so that it is worked, not forgotten: the Jefferson's own record rests in the city directory runs and the Tribune's files at the St. Until that record is read, the Jefferson stands in this history as it stands in the Register's sentence — a major house, a demolition, and a name.
Sources:
- National Register of Historic Places nomination form, Hoffman Hotel (the five major downtown hotels of the 1930s; the Jefferson's demolition).