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ARCHITECTURE (Continued on Page6) the Locquyt family Population of over 550 since 1951. Today the enjoyed the benefits of co Carlisle was the Ewers g Animal By-Products two doctors, two drug x Mill. It was purchased Corporation, which stores, several dry in 1880 by Oren Tippy su plies animal fats i goods shops, a grocery and Samuel Miller, the form of proteins and a hardware store, who then added a and a harness and n s; and tallow to the soap, broom handle factory. f chemical and animal upholstery shop as well j C The New Carlisle as various clotheriers is F:• feed industries, also Lumber Company now provides hides to the and bootiers. COD stands on the former leather industry. Permanent educa- Mill site. Other enter- By 1875, New Carli- tional facilities were prises spawned by sle was considered the provided by 1861 , area lumberinginclud ,' when, under the direr- � commercial, industrial, � ed wagon and carriage N - and cultural center of tion of Reverend John manufacturing; cabinet Olive Township. The 5. Leach, the Methodist making; the manufac- lowi If town had become a Collegiate Institute turfing of excelsior, ll; regular stop on the was constructed on a g two acre parcel of land stage wood shavings used in coach route bet- mattress stuffing and ween Chicago and donated by Joseph merchandise packing; . g i Detroit. Passengers Ivans at 300 West and oaken pork bar- c o u l d b e a c c o m- Michigan Street. The rels, for which there town of New Carlisle modated at the hotel, was a great demand in which also housed a eventually bought the Chicago. The industry The Animal By- founded in 1910 as a casino, saloon, and building from the died around the turn of Products Corporation is slaughterhouse, the monument works. An church and in 1903, the the century as the the oldest industry still company has been opera house had been school property was forests were depleted. operating in town. under the direction of built, and the town's deeded to Olive Township. Over the - it years, the school was renovated and new V buildings were added �eQ�Q► but by 1980, the struc- O ture was demolished. �� `�S There is a plaque �� marking the site which VQ S� is currently a park. Two doorswest of the Institute site stands a small cottage that once housed the first school �• in the town. Built in 1852, the school was "MICHIANA'S LEADER CALL TODAY ! also used as a church, a Sunday School, and a IN RESIDENTAL WASTE " REALIZE THE BENEFITS site for political REMOVAL" meetings. It was " originally located on TOMORROW the southwest corner of Cherry and Front THE CHOICE Streets, but was later moved to its present T H E MOBILE I IS YOURS site, 406 West Michigan Street, and converted TOTER SYSTEM r, into a residence. This house is one of several It's economical! Just dump the trash directly 41 historically and/or ar- into the mobile Toter. You'll save on expensive plastic trash '►I' 1 i �I THIS chitecturally significant II�II bags - and won't have to replace existing garbage cans. buildings located� III `/ within a proposed It's more sanitary ! The mobile Toter has a historic district for New Carlisle. This district tight, latching-lid that keeps trash and odors locked inside. would include both It's easy to periodically hose out the Toter. �� commercial and � J Its attractive ! The smartly shaped, subtly residential buildingsrepresenting a diverse colored mobile Toter replaces four unsightly 20-gallon trash collection of architec- cans. The tough shell and cover keeps stray animals from OR tural styles. One style spilling your trash. particularly well represented in the town is the Italianate, popular in the third quarter of the nine- teenth century. The Ransom Hubbard house, located at 202 West Front Street, is an Italianate, two-story, brick home constructed in 1881 . The wealth and position of the Hubbard family, among the earliest settlers in Olive Township, is evi- dent by the elaborate exterior decoration, especially the applied wood porch details, See ARCHITECTURE (Continued on Page 9)