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609 Portaqe Avenue - Formerly the South Bend Conservatory of Music; a significant Queen Anne structure built by local firm Whitcomb and Keller and designed by local architect W.W. Schneider. Cleveland Road -Witter Cemetery - A nineteenth-century burial ground; the resting place for significant pioneer families, Civil and Spanish-American War veterans and the local German pioneer community. Ireland Road -Rohrer Cemetery - A pioneer nineteenth-century cemetery; burial place for several significant Centre Township pioneers and families; a fine collection of burial markers and various decorative elements. The period has also saw a great deal of work put into several potential local landmarks: the Southern Hotel at 802 S. Main, one of the last remaining hotels of its type in the city, built to serve businessmen during South Bend's heyday of industrial activity; and 58666 Ireland Trail, a W.P.A.-built caretakers cottage servicing a water reservoir, unusual as an example of residential architecture built by local Depression -era government workers. The HPC was unsuccessful in its attempt to landmark the W.P.A. structure due to local government resistance, however, the issue of designating and saving the Southern Hotel from demolition is still being addressed. HISTORIC DISTRICTS The staff worked on two proposed Local Historic Districts in 1991 --potentially to be named Monroe Park LHD and Camp Rose LHD. The Monroe Park proposal, first introduced at the May HPC meeting, will have a second reading and public hearing at the February, 1992 HPC meeting. The staff and the Near Northwest Neighborhood Association began the various tasks of assembling data and analyzing the proposed Camp Rose district in December; historic research and further analysis continue into 1992. On October 8, Third District Councilman William Soderberg introduced a bill seeking to amend the boundaries of the Lincolnway East Historic District. The HPC held a public hearing on the matter on December 16; as a result of the hearing the Commission sent an unfavorable recommendation to the South Bend Common Council. The issue continues in 1992. The Commission Appropriateness properties: Local Landmarks 618 Leland Ave. 713 Cushing St. 607 Leland Ave. 1028 Wayne St. reviewed sixty-one (61) Certificate of applications consisting of the following (11) 5450 Miami Road 713 Cushing St. 710 Park Ave. 61191 U.S. 31 S. 723 Park Ave. 121 Studebaker 1028 Wayne St.