My WebLink
|
Help
|
About
|
Sign Out
Home
Browse
Search
April 1999
sbend
>
Public
>
Historic Preservation
>
Meeting Minutes
>
HPC Meeting Minutes 1999
>
April 1999
Metadata
Thumbnails
Annotations
Entry Properties
Last modified
1/11/2019 1:16:21 PM
Creation date
6/8/2020 10:09:29 AM
Metadata
Fields
Template:
South Bend HPC
HPC Document Type
Minutes
BOLT Control Number
1001401
There are no annotations on this page.
Document management portal powered by Laserfiche WebLink 9 © 1998-2015
Laserfiche.
All rights reserved.
/
71
PDF
Print
Pages to print
Enter page numbers and/or page ranges separated by commas. For example, 1,3,5-12.
After downloading, print the document using a PDF reader (e.g. Adobe Reader).
Show annotations
View images
View plain text
NPS Form 10.900 -a <br />'18.88) <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number R Page <br />OMB Approval No. 1021-0018 <br />South Bend Brewing Association St. Joseph County IN <br />The South Bend Brewing Association was one of a triumvirate of <br />local breweries in South Bend - Mishawaka, none of which is still <br />active. The first was the Muessel Brewery, a family operation <br />started in 1852, which by the end of the nineteenth century had <br />constructed a large new plant, still extant (along with decades of <br />additions) in the 1300 -1400 blocks of Elwood Avenue. In 1936, <br />after manufacturing non - alcoholic beverages during Prohibition, <br />the brewery became Drewry's, which closed in the 1970s. The <br />second brewery also had origins in the 1850s, in a small operation <br />begun in Mishawaka by a man named Wagner. Adolph Kamm, along with <br />some partners, purchased the brewery in 1870; in the 1880s, <br />Nicholas Schellinger became a partner and it was incorporated as <br />Kamm & Schellinger Brewing Company. By the turn of the century <br />all of its earliest frame buildings had been replaced; today this <br />largely intact brewery complex along the St. Joseph River is known <br />as the 100 Center and is listed in the National Register of <br />Historic Places. <br />In 1903 a group of mostly German, Polish, and Hungarian (the three <br />largest immigrant groups in South Bend at the time) tavern owners <br />formed the South Bend Brewing Association to manufacture and <br />distribute beer. They immediately offered stock to the public and <br />soon began to lease saloons around the city, most of which were on <br />the city's heavily ethnic west side. The association built a <br />large brick building -on what was then called Michigan Avenue (for <br />the old Michigan Road), later renamed Lincolnway when the Lincoln <br />Highway was routed on it. A former plumber, Jerry Voelkers, <br />became the manager and served until his death in 1911. Opened in <br />1905, the imposing castle -like structure housed a complete <br />manufacturing facility, with power, heating and cooling, and <br />loading docks on the south and southwest. The process of brewing <br />depended on gravity flow, and the building, four stories high in <br />the front (north) and descending in tiers to one story in the <br />rear, is a visual representation of the procedure. The chief <br />products were Tiger Beer and Hoosier Beer. A separate bottling <br />facility was built -in 1910 immediately to the west across College <br />Street. The brewery later enlarged this building and moved its <br />offices into it. <br />
The URL can be used to link to this page
Your browser does not support the video tag.