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NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION STAFF REPORT • PROPERTY -- North Pumping Station 830 North Michigan Street South Bend, Indiana OWNER -- City of South Bend C/O Mayor Joseph Kernan County -City Building South Bend, Indiana STANDARDS The nomination proposes placement of this building on the National Register of Historic Places based on Criterion C: Design Construction. National Register Bulletin 15 - How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation provides that "Properties may be eligible for the National Register if they embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction...." These characteristics are further described as "The pattern of features common to a particular category of resources." RECOMMENDATION The Staff of the HPC recommends in favor of the nomination of the North Pumping Station located at 830 North Michigan Street, South Bend, Indiana to the National Register of Historic Places. The building meets Criterion C as exemplary of Classical Revival architecture applied to public works in South Bend during the early Twentieth Century. • As described in the Statement of Significance section of the nomination, the building is a well preserved and continuously used example of the application of high -style architecture to utilitarian function. In this case the building enhanced a public park. The building is considered architecturally significant for its excellently preserved representation of characteristics associated with monumental Classical Revival architecture of this era, including a generally symmetrical design featuring a projecting center pavilion with a pedimented colonnade in the Ionic Order. The building is substantially faced in brick with limestone pilasters and stringcourses above a limestone water table and features a parapeted gutter system and clay tile roof. Windows are articulated with limestone arches. Although many of the original windows have been replaced, some original sash -remain in the south bay area. Although much equipment has been replaced and some modern partitions constructed, the interior remains substantially intact with iron balusters supporting brass handrails and pressed metal ceiling in evidence. It is the opinion of HPC Staff that this building meets the criteria for eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. Staff recommends that the commission send a favorable ruling to the Mayor of South Bend and to the State Historic Preservation Office. DBD Director • 5/14/96