Studebaker Clubhouse and Tree Sign

  • Also Known As: Million Dollar Outdoor Testing Laboratory

  • Address: 32132 IN 2
  • Vicinity: Bendix Woods County Park and Nature Center
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1926/00/00 Ernest W Young Architect Period Revival clubhouse is built as a place for proving ground employees to eat, relax in off hours, stay in bad weather and board if they so desired. Designed by South Bend architect, Ernest W Young, the clubhouse resembles a country club.
1926/00/00 Studebaker Corporation Test Facilities Designed and constructed under Maurice Thorne, who supervised the construction of the General Motors Proving Ground in the 1925, Studebaker Proving Ground is built for $617,375.95 with 8 miles of roadway, an engineering building, garages and clubhouse.
1938/00/00 Studebaker Corporation Owner Studebaker Corp plants the world's largest living sign -- a half-mile-long "STUDEBAKER" spelled out in 8,000 pine trees and visible from the air.

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Particulars for Studebaker Clubhouse and Tree Sign:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Historic Use Civic
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Historic Use Park
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 85002430
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Young,Ernest W.
Architectural Style: Colonial revival
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Landscape architecture, Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Significance of less than fifty years
Period of Significance: 1925-1949
Significant Year: 1926
Historic Function: Industry, processing, extraction, Social, Landscape
Historic Sub-Function: Civic, Unoccupied land
Current Function: Landscape
Current Sub-Function: Park Unoccupied land

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