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( Fo n,a000. anAAw%+rfu 1024aWu United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet F. 24 E. Bank Multiple Property Listing Section number Page St. Joseph .County, . Indiana Industrial Era Public Buildings, Sites and Structures in the East Bank DescriDtion- This property type includes a variety of.types of resources which -are associated with the infrastructure, amenities and public services of the East Bank during the Industrial Era. This includes structures such as bridges, roads and streets, which are associated with important transportation links, especially those which enhanced communication between the east and the west banks of the St. Joseph River and which enabled goods to be transported to markets. Railroad related resources are also included. 3 Sites in this category include Landscape'Architectural resources such as parks, parkways, boulevards, gardens, walks as well as land forms. Public buildings include those dedicated to.community services, such as fire houses, and other municipally managed elements. • Sianificance The resources in this property type can be associated with Industrial Era development in the east bank, because they provided the amenities, infrastructure, and transportation links across the St. Joseph River which were so essential for the growth and prosperity of the geographic area. They achieve significance under areas of transportation, landscape architecture, architecture, and engineering. All streets, bridges and parks in the East Bank have local significance and most qualify under Criteria A, although several have engineering and/or landscape architectural design qualities which apply to Criteria C. Two bridges fall into this category, in particular because of the use of the Melan arch technique and aesthetic elements in their design which were recognized in their own era, and are reasonably well-known today. *The work of the planner/landscape architect, George Kessler in South Bend has some relationship to resources in the area, although examples are limited. Significant as transportation resources are the twentieth century reinforced concrete bridges and the railroad bridge, all of which provide access, to markets and to other areas of the city. These are also significant as examples of masterful engineering design and because they demonstrate unique applications of early twentieth century techniques and principals. Howard -Park is significant on the • local level for its association with amenities necessary for the growth and development of the area, for its ties to the City Beautiful