506 Michigan Street: the clinic seat, from the Walkerton Medical Clinic to Saint Joseph Family Medicine

1964–2026

One address carries Walkerton's organized medicine for the whole modern era. A 1965 Walkerton High School yearbook advertisement names the seat in its working form: "WALKERTON MEDICAL CLINIC … William D. Carter, M.D. … Bryce B. Rohrer, M.D. … 506 Michigan Street … Walkerton, Indiana." The clinic's paper trail runs long: a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Board decision cites "private treatment records from Walkerton Medical Clinic, dated from August 1964 to February 1992" — official record — and an obituary records a clinic nurse employed there until 1964. The seat's present holder is Saint Joseph Family Medicine–Walkerton, of the Saint Joseph Medical Group and Saint Joseph Health System (Trinity Health), at the same address, 506 Michigan St, Walkerton, IN 46574-1116, on the system's own site, with Benjamin Peter Yourchock, MD, named as the provider at the seat and a nurse practitioner, Collese Nicole McKee, added by directory listing. The Census geocoder seats 506 Michigan Street inside the town limits, in Lincoln Township. The seat's name and telephone print in conflict, unmerged: aggregator listings still carry the address under the historic name "Walkerton Medical Clinic" with telephone (574) 586-9000, while the system's own site lists Saint Joseph Family Medicine with telephone 574-335-5200. The address is one and continuous — a physicians' clinic seat from at least 1964 to today under at least two names. One candidate is excluded on the record: no Beacon Medical Group office in Walkerton was found in the directories swept; Walkerton's system office is Trinity Health's, not Beacon's. A further item prints at the strength reached: a 2007 South Bend Tribune item headlined "Walkerton doctor to be honored" describes a lifetime Walkerton resident honored for thirty-eight years of volunteer service to school athletes; the doctor's name sits behind the summary's paywall and is not printed from it.

Sources

1. Walkerton High School yearbook, 1965, advertisement (Walkerton Medical Clinic; Carter; Rohrer; 506 Michigan Street), Archive.org full text.
2. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Board decision citing Walkerton Medical Clinic records, August 1964–February 1992 (va.gov) — official record.
3. Saint Joseph Health System, own site: Saint Joseph Family Medicine–Walkerton, 506 Michigan St, 574-335-5200; provider page, Benjamin Peter Yourchock, MD (sjmed.com).
4. WebMD practice listing (Walkerton Medical Clinic, 506 Michigan St, (574) 586-9000) — aggregator, the conflict's second side.
5. Census geocoder test, 506 Michigan Street: Walkerton town, Lincoln Township, St. Joseph County, 11 November 2026.