#91 — The first home's tenure, bounded: the Heritage Room, 1997 to the Frash house — the move year itself unnamed in any record reached

The first museum home now has both ends of its story except the hinge: the Heritage Room Museum opened at the Walkerton Library in 1997 (the society's own page, banked), and it ended when the museum moved into its second home, the house at 413 Michigan Street donated by Dr. and Mrs. Elliott Frash. The society's page, re-read first-hand for this item, gives the sequence and no date for the move: 1997, then the house, then 2023. The bounds this run can prove are these. The Frash house was the society's working seat by February 2010: a Walkerton obituary of that month directs memorial contributions to the society at 413 Michigan Street, and a directory of Indiana historical societies, still carrying that address in its current form, seats the society there. So the Heritage Room's tenure ran from 1997 to a move year that stands somewhere in 1997–2010, and the Frash house's tenure ran from that same unnamed year to the 2023 move into the old license-branch building — a second tenure of at least thirteen years, at most twenty-six. The move year itself — the date the first home gave way — appears in no record reached: not on the society's pages, not in the town's listings as mirrored, not in the directories. It stands as this item's named residue, with its settlers: the society's own records and museum pages read at fuller depth, and the Independent/Independent-News run for the move's announcement. (The 302/305 Roosevelt Road address and hours conflict, DF-W-9, rides on the third home only; this article does not touch it and does not resolve it.)

Sources: Walkerton Area Historical Society, museum page of the Walkerton Digital Library, read first-hand November 2026 (1997 opening; the Frash gift; the 2023 move; no Frash move date). Obituary of Margaret J. DeMyer, February 2010 (memorials to the society at 413 Michigan St) — the seat proven by that date. CountyOffice directory of Indiana historical societies (the society at 413 Michigan Street). Arts & Culture and Fairs & Civic legs of this build (the three homes; the gifts). Settlers named: the society's records; the town paper's run.