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United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service I National Register of Historic Places Registration Form <br />NIPS Forrn 10 -900 - OMB No. 1024 -0018 <br />South Bend City Cemetery St. Joseph, Indiana <br />Name of Property County and State <br />7. Description <br />Architectural Classification <br />(Enter categories from instructions.) <br />_LATE VICTORIAN /Shingle Style <br />LATE VICTORIAN /Romanesque <br />LATE VICTORIAN <br />Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) <br />foundation: STONE /Limestone <br />walls: WOOD <br />roof: other <br />other: METAL /Cast Iron <br />Narrative Description <br />(Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe <br />contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that <br />briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, <br />method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has <br />historic integrity.) <br />Summary Paragraph <br />South Bend City Cemetery, a 21.36 -acre designed landscape is South Bend's oldest cemetery, <br />founded in 1832. City Cemetery is situated immediately west of the city's downtown core, just <br />northwest of the West Washington National Register District, added to the Register in 1975 and <br />is about one mile southwest of the St. Joseph River. The trapezoid shaped site, a result of <br />multiple expansions, contains approximately 14,800 burials. It is composed of lots that are of a <br />regular grid pattern as well as an (1899) expansion of irregular and circular lots. These later <br />meandering roadways, a response to the little topographic variation, were designed to provide a <br />variety of changing vistas. The style of City Cemetery ranges from municipal to Lawn Park and <br />includes veterans' sections and a potter's field. Characteristic of the lawn park movement of the <br />late 19d' century, the cemetery the site combines a variety of three - dimensional stone types, as <br />Section 7 page 4 <br />