South Bend Landmarks, Architecture and Neighborhoods

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South Bend Landmarks, Architecture and Neighborhoods

Landmarks, buildings, maps, parks and neighborhoods.

Landmarks & Neighborhoods

§ 63Famous South Bend LandmarksEvery city has two maps: the one in the surveyor's office and the one in the world's head. This section walks the second one. It takes the places by which people who have never been to South Bend know South Bend — a…16 entry pages § 64South Bend Architecture: The Built City, From the Navarre Cabin to the Century CenterSouth Bend's built record is unusually well documented, because the city surveyed itself before it was too late. Between them, the National Register of Historic Places, the Indiana survey records held in the state's…19 entry pages § 65Historic Preservation in South Bend: How the City Keeps and Marks Its PastSouth Bend's preservation story does not begin with a law. It begins with a bulldozer's ledger: an inner beltway driven through the fine houses of West Washington in the 1960s, an Oliver Hotel demolished in 1967, an…15 entry pages § 66Historic Maps of South Bend: Three Centuries of Drawing the Bend in the RiverSouth Bend was mapped before it existed. French cartographers working from explorers' reports drew this river and the carrying place at its bend onto the map of a continent a century and a half before the town plat was…14 entry pages § 67South Bend Parks and City PlanningSouth Bend's green framework began as a square drawn on a plat and a swamp the city used for a dump. The town's founders reserved a public square in 1831 and put the courthouse and the jail on it, but they set aside no…16 entry pages § 22South Bend Neighborhoods: The History of the City's NeighborhoodsSouth Bend's neighborhoods were not found; they were filed. Every one of them began as a piece of paper at the county recorder's office — a plat, drawn by a proprietor who expected the city to grow over his land and…25 entry pages

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Source: South Bend Landmarks, Architecture and Neighborhoods, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/south-bend/topics/landmarks-neighborhoods/

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