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4 These recreational accommodations included a bowling alley, billiard tables and an exercise- bicycle room. Dressing rooms and toilet facilities were also added amenities. The facilities were gender- segregated and were exchanged between the sexes once a week. The company also provided space outside the building for croquet wickets and other outdoor sports. This effort to be a benign employer is perhaps balanced by company policy that forbade employees, except for executives, from decorating their offices with calendars or personal pictures. In addition, it is unlikely that the recreation facilities were intended for the use of all employees -- including factory laborers. Another rule that might be interpreted as revealing a overly paternalistic streak in company policy was the requirement of department heads to maintain all curtains in the building at a uniform height at all times. The building was to remain in every way a symbol of a company highly organized and in complete control.[4] The Studebaker firm, recognizing their part in the historical development of South Bend and their role in American transportation, set aside a portion of the building from the beginning for use as a museum dedicated to the display of Studebaker products. The company also commissioned the painting of a historical mural in the building that depicted the history of transportation -- beginning with a pre- Egyptian mode of transport and ending, of course, with a Studebaker automobile. The company museum, located on the west side of the first floor, displayed Studebaker wagons, carriages and automobiles. The museum also displayed carriages used by various historical figures, including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton and the Marquis de Lafayette.[5] A Studebaker press release from 1941, noting the building's "historic" place in Midwest architecture, mentioned it as being only the "second poured- concrete, four -story structure [built] in the Middle West." This document further characterizes it as being "well -known to thousands of motorists who have visited the Hoosier city." It seems evident that the building was considered even then as being a notable South Bend landmark. This same document goes on to suggest that one could see "the character of Studebaker ... reflected in the building." It was described as being a "strong structure, ruddy and robust, but not fancy or smeared with gadgets." This image was said to be further maintained by the "immaculate cleanliness of everything in the building. "[6] The company made every effort to keep the building "up to date." The press - release quoted above was circulated to announce the "facelift" of the venerable building. This project replaced oaken paneling, window trim and "1910 furniture" that was seen as being old- fashioned by the 1940's. In this effort to update the