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NPS Form 10-900, OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) ited States Department of the Interior tional Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 7 Page Narrative Description The South Bend Remedy Company Building (Remedy building) is a two story, masonry, Classic Revival/Queen Anne style structure with a rectangular plan, a steeply pitched hip roof with conical corner tower. The Remedy Building was moved to its current location (501 W. Colfax) within the West Washington National Register District in 1988. It was listed as a historic resource within the Downtown South Bend Historic Multiple Resource area when it was located at its original site (220 W. LaSalle). The Downtown South Bend Multiple Resource area was listed in the National Register on June 5, 1985. The relocation of the structure was necessitated due to its threatened demolition to make way for the construction of a new press building for the South Bend Tribune. Despite its relocation and varied reuses since its construction, the exterior remains unaltered from its original design. Originally the structure was situated close to the street with little setback. Its current siting reflects the dominant set backs found within the West Washington National Register District — most directly the toric Birdsell mansion which is located on the next parcel west from the Remedy building. The current lot was never landscaped and remains a flat lot with grass no trees or fencing. The Remedy building is two stories high and is constructed of solid masonry (brick and limestone). It was designed as the end bay of a eventual set of row houses. And while additional structures were never developed at its original location, the "row house" design is carried out in the concentration of finish details on the front and a portion of the west facades. The Remedy building survives as South Bend's last remaining examples of "row house" style design. The structure sits on a raised basement demarcated by rock faced ashler limestone and is separated from the first floor by a limestone string course. Above the belt coarse on the main fagade, smooth faced limestone with a butter joint is carried to the second floor where smooth faced red brick with a butter joint terminates at a wide frieze band of garlands and torches topped by a denticulated cornice. A raised recessed entrance is surrounded with smooth limestone accented by decorative incised bands. The entry appears to be a double leafed door but the left side is fixed. Constructed in oak, both sides have a square panel and window and are topped by transoms. Above the entrance is a round turret with a conical roof punctuated by three windows. The turret projects from the plane of the fagade at the second floor level. The base of the turret is carved with an organic motif and a cartouche with the original address of the building (220) carved in the limestone. The second floor center windows have the same pattern that is used in the turret.. A pediment punctuates the steeply sloped roof immediately above_the windows.. The pediment contains an oculus window with a decorative limestone surround. The balance of the elevations are red ck with regular mortar joints. On the first floor, just right of the entrance is a three part window with double nung windows flanking a large fixed window all topped with a transom. All windows on the structure are wood and are original.