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OW AN—* Na 7000- # United States Department of the Interior National Park Service ONational Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Pape 2 St. Casimir Parish Historic District St. Joseph County IN wraparound porch on the north and east. The porch originally was more open with turned supporting columns, but today features a low wall and piers of brick, alterations that may have been the result of repairs after the rectory was vandalized in the Bloody Sunday Riot of 1914. A convent built ca.1919 (since demolished) previously occupied the lot immediately to the west of the rectory. To the east between the church and the rectory is a landscaped space featuring a nearly lifesized statue of St. Casimir. About four blocks to the southwest at 1601 West Sample is St. Mary of the Holy Rosary Polish National Church (photo 6), whose construction began in 1915, about a year after the church was chartered. Exhibiting both Romanesque and Gothic influences, the . one-story brick church is dominated by a two -and -a -half story square entrance tower topped by a bellcast pyramidal roof. Immediately to the north at 845 Kosciuszko Street is the wide - gable -fronted Polish National Hall (see photo 7), also of brick, with limestone trim. Turn -of -the -century commercial buildings dot several of the street corners; occasionally there is one mid -block (see photos 1,8,9). Most are frame, but a few are brick. The majority are occupied, most commonly with taverns on the first floor and some with one or more apartments on the second. although a few have been converted to residences. Probably the most distinctive example is at, 1201 Dunham (photos 2,10), which features a bracketed cornice on the south facade, and on its east elevation facing Arnold Street, a projecting second -story bay covered in stamped metal. The lower- story of the main facade has been altered, typical of all such buildings in the district. Around the intersection of Walnut and Dunham (see photo 11) -- relatively central to the neighborhood --is a small business district dating to around the turn of the century with a few modern intrusions and several empty lots upon which small commercial buildings once stood, including the substantial Warsaw Hall (the hall was on the second floor, above a grocery store) built in 1905 on the now -vacant southwest corner of the • intersection. Walnut is one of the few streets that crosses the several railroad tracks forming the north boundary of the district. and thus is heavily traveled. Parts of the neighborhood began along this street in the early 1870s with Arnold and Webster's Subdivision. Originally named Union Street