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NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION AMENDMENT STAFF REPORT PROPERTY Remedy Building 501 W. Colfax South Bend, IN. 46601 OWNER Historic Landmarks Foundation 914 LWW South Bend, IN. 46616 STANDARDS The nomination amendment proposes placement of these building on a new site with in the same National Register District, W. Washington. To retain National Register status the Commission must review the move and the new location to ascertain that the building will still meet the National Register of Historic Places Criterion, namely criterion C and A: design construction and association with events. National Register Bulletin 15 — How to AUply 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 relocation of the Remedy Building, currently located at 501 W. Washington, South Bend, Indiana, to the southwest corner of Franklin and Washington Streets, also in South Bend. The new location will only enhance the beauty of the structure and its history by placing it closer to downtown and situating it on the site in such a way to best display the corner turret. The building will still meet National Register Criterion C and A as exemplary of the Queen Anne style of architecture and its association with early medicine and the Remedy Company. The building is a well - preserved example of Queen Anne style of commercial architecture in an urban setting. It is considered architecturally significant for its excellently preserved representation of characteristics associated with Queen Anne architecture of this era, including brick walls, dressed stone string course, garland and torch stone carved frieze and second story corner turret with a decorative bay of arched arcade windows, floral limestone carved base and garland frieze. Since its construction in 1895, the building has been moved from its original location on LaSalle Street to the northwest corner of W. Colfax and William Streets in 1988. The structure has remained vacant for the past thirteen years. The building is considered historically significant by its association with one of Americas premier mail order drug companies, the Remedy Company, and as the only structure of its type or style remaining in South Bend.