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NPI Form 10400.4 OLO Afpvvel Na 1024-°°18 c"q United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet E 8 East Bank Multiple Property Listing Section number Page St. Joseph County, Indiana yellow -buff 11Notre Dame bricks" were produced annually. Production of this brick and valuable lime for mortar continued until the early 1880s. All of the buildings erected at Notre Dame during this time were built with this brick, and it became a respected and popular local building material. 20 Father Sorin was not only a dedicated religious man, but he was a skilled nineteenth century entrepreneur as well. The men of his community also combined, in typical missionary fashion, the practical with the divine. Among his colleagues were a farmer, who transformed the existing 10 cleared acres into 120 under cultivation within two years and a carpenter who immediately established a carpentry shop. Among the early pioneers of the site was the University's first architect, a tradition which would continue to the present day. 21 Many of the buildings in the East Bank were designed and/or constructed by architects and builders who received their training at Notre Dame. • In 1855, under Sorin's urging, the University administration decided to develop some of its property in the present East Bank area, approximately one mile south of the campus. A 120 -acre development, which came to be called "Sorinsville6 was platted, with lots available for a down payment of $25, the rest to be paid in'labor, trade or long-term credit. The institution hoped to attract many of the Catholic laborers, especially the Irish who had ventured into the area to work on canals and railroads. The area was also called, "little Dublin" or the "village catholique." In addition, a few faculty residences were constructed along its gracious lanes, one of which, the Maurice Egan House, remains today. Streets were named after important patrons or persons in Notre Dame history; for example, Napoleon Street was named after Napoleon III. 22 Today, many of these names have been retained. Sorin Street and Notre Dame Avenue (which runs north/south nearly the entire length of the'East Bank) are just two reminders of the great influence which Notre Dame exerted upon the early development of the area. Sorinsville was incorporated into the Town of South Bend as the new Fourth Ward, along with most of the present East Bank area in 1866. Five years later, two other additions were annexed. One encompassed 20 Ibid., pp. 17-18. 21 Ibid., pp. 12, 20. 0 22 Ibid., pp. 24-25.