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NPS Form 10.900 -a '18.88) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number R Page OMB Approval No. 1021-0018 South Bend Brewing Association St. Joseph County IN The South Bend Brewing Association was one of a triumvirate of local breweries in South Bend - Mishawaka, none of which is still active. The first was the Muessel Brewery, a family operation started in 1852, which by the end of the nineteenth century had constructed a large new plant, still extant (along with decades of additions) in the 1300 -1400 blocks of Elwood Avenue. In 1936, after manufacturing non - alcoholic beverages during Prohibition, the brewery became Drewry's, which closed in the 1970s. The second brewery also had origins in the 1850s, in a small operation begun in Mishawaka by a man named Wagner. Adolph Kamm, along with some partners, purchased the brewery in 1870; in the 1880s, Nicholas Schellinger became a partner and it was incorporated as Kamm & Schellinger Brewing Company. By the turn of the century all of its earliest frame buildings had been replaced; today this largely intact brewery complex along the St. Joseph River is known as the 100 Center and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1903 a group of mostly German, Polish, and Hungarian (the three largest immigrant groups in South Bend at the time) tavern owners formed the South Bend Brewing Association to manufacture and distribute beer. They immediately offered stock to the public and soon began to lease saloons around the city, most of which were on the city's heavily ethnic west side. The association built a large brick building -on what was then called Michigan Avenue (for the old Michigan Road), later renamed Lincolnway when the Lincoln Highway was routed on it. A former plumber, Jerry Voelkers, became the manager and served until his death in 1911. Opened in 1905, the imposing castle -like structure housed a complete manufacturing facility, with power, heating and cooling, and loading docks on the south and southwest. The process of brewing depended on gravity flow, and the building, four stories high in the front (north) and descending in tiers to one story in the rear, is a visual representation of the procedure. The chief products were Tiger Beer and Hoosier Beer. A separate bottling facility was built -in 1910 immediately to the west across College Street. The brewery later enlarged this building and moved its offices into it.