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Additional Statement:of Significance: as well as major office and industrial buildings throughout the midwest. B eman was raised in New York City, and early in his career he worked for Richard Upjohn. He moved to Chicago at the age of twenty-six upon the request of Pullman, first to design his residence, then to design the town of Pullman, which was built;in 1891. Beman designed the JMS Building in 1910, as well as several other buildings in South Bend, including "Sunnyside," the famous residence of John Mohler, a hotel for Studebaker Mfg., the Studebaker theatre, as well as a gothic -styled Christian Science Church. The Economic Development Co. purchased the building in i9'i3. Description of Wall: Six bays by three colonaded facade clearly 1/2 expressing bay system with elaborate projecting neo -baroque consoles and frieze at 3rd floor and rob with simpliar cornice at 8th floor line. Description of Roof: Exceptional robust cornice projection for flat roof, egg and dart molding and decorated volluted console brackets, fale brick on east facade and light well. Description of Openings: Doors: Modernized aluminum stone front entrance, and absurd modern stone fronts on street level. Windows:. 1/1 double hung three perbay with flat rafter simple decorated sprandrels except 8th floor, where round even spans with cartouche keystone. Description of Site: North east corner of Main and' Washington, the major intersection of downtown South Bend, houses street to the north of the Odd Fellows bldg., diagonally across from the 3rd court house and the boundary of the identified historic district of South Bend. Description of Stairs: No exterior. Description of Towers and Steeples: Pant houses and flag poles. Additional Features: Concrete and the floor system/curtain wall construction, exceptional interior treatment with marble floors and wain scots elaborately detailed stairways.