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Nit Foran 164064 OW AAWVO(Na /07iN1/ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 10 National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet E 6 East Bank Multiple Property Listing Section number Page St. Joseph ,County, Indiana present East Bank area, from slightly north of Cedar Street in the north, to Jefferson Boulevard in the south and between Niles Avenue and St. Louis Boulevard, as well as a section westward to the river between Madison and Washington Streets. After the east race was completed through this latter part of Lowell in the 1840s, the community's industrial future looked bright. Additional parcels of land began to be laid out and registered, including several by the pioneer developer, Samuel Cottrell. In an 1853 advertisement he offered: "...lots of water power for sale to those desiring to purchase, on the most reasonable terms as to price and the time of payment. " 15 As the next decade matured, thoughts about connections with the west side of the river came into the public mind. A contemporary historian recalled: "Quite a thriving town was built up, and for some years the question of its annexation to South Bend was agitated, its interests being closely identified with the latter place.,, 16 The East Bank was a thriving area by the middle of the sixth decade of the nineteenth century. Additions to the original Town of Lowell had swollen the town nearly twice. By 1866, most of the East Bank Multiple Property Listing area would be annexed to the City of South Bend. In five more years, two additional parcels would be added to complete the present geographic boundaries and the East Bank would move into its prime. The forces which would continue to shape the area were well in place, including the river, the east race and its subsidiary races, the industries which lined these waterways or clustered between them, and the upper and middle class residential neighborhoods which were growing to the north, south and east. Among the most important of these forces was an academic, religious and industrial complex taking shape just north of the East Bank district, on 540 acres of prime land surrounding two beautiful lakes -- the future Notre Dame. In its early years, brick and lime production would be almost as important as education. Our Ladv to the North 15 Ibid. 16 Chapman, p. 861. 1' Harland Bartholomew, Major Street Report for South Bend, Indiana. St. Louis, Missouri: Harland Bartholomew, City Plan Engineer, Consultant, 1924, Map "Plan No. 2" p. 10.