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1995–2012 at 111 South St. Joseph Street; the fame is Atlanta's now
The fame frame: For seventeen years, from its opening in August 1995 to its last afternoon on the last day of 2012, the building at 111 South St. Joseph Street in downtown South Bend simply was the College Football Hall of Fame to the entire country — the address on the enshrinement programs, the destination of the festival weekends, the room where the sport kept its memory. That whole story — the hall's coming from King's Island by this city's courting, the festival, the quarter-century of curator Kent Stephens's keeping, the departure, and the 50 Notre Dame names in its rolls — belongs to the Halls of Fame history in this record, which owns it. This entry carries the location point the fame left behind: the building still stands downtown, beside the Courtyard by Marriott that rose in 2017 on the parcel the Hall's exit freed, and the documented record of its own second life ends with it vacant in its developers' hands — the entrance-and-lobby conversion its buyers announced was never built. The Hall of Fame itself opened in Atlanta in 2014. A famous location whose fame moved away intact, leaving the building to stand as its own forwarding address: South Bend has one, and it is told here at the size of the site, not the institution.
Cross-reference: this history (hof-building, hof-afterlife) owns the building's whole record, including the vacant-building abatements and the record's open end; the Fame section prints nothing that file does not carry.
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- The Halls of Fame history in this record — the building at 111 S. St. Joseph Street, its 1995–2012 life, the afterlife record through the Courtyard's opening (27 September 2017 in the city's telling), and the documented vacancy at the record's end.