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1+re r� fasoo. <br />t►+n <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />• National Park Service <br />• <br />0 <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number 7 Page 4 <br />St. Casimir Parish Historic District <br />Ma AMMVMI M1, iM4018 <br />St. Joseph County IN <br />The fringes of the district are a bit frayed with numerous vacan.t <br />lots where houses once stood ---especially bordering the railroad. <br />Along the tracks farther west in the district the right-of-way <br />takes on the appearance of a park. The New York Central Railroad <br />engine house once stood on the north side.of Poland Street in the <br />1500 block, the.land lies vacant now. Otherwise much of the area <br />along the railroad has a quality of overgrown isolation, <br />especially in summer when the right-of-way is practically a <br />forest.in places between Webster and Arnold. The crossing at <br />Arnold closed in 1995, considerably diminishing traffic and <br />adding to the sense of seclusion along Huron, the street farthest <br />north. The part of the district that bulges a block east of <br />Arnold into the corner of the former Oliver Chilled Plow complex <br />has lost several houses. chiefly along Ford Street. Just to the <br />south, a long vacant remnant of the Oliver plant still survives <br />in the 700 block of Arnold, the former Forge Shop #2. Erected <br />ca. 1910, the dark brick building (see photos 9,10) features a <br />clerestory and some Romanesque detailing, chiefly corbelling. On <br />Sample Street (photo 21), the southern boundary. much of the <br />original fabric has given way to successive street widenings and <br />industrial encroachment, although the more westerly blocks are <br />relatively intact. <br />