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
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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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. |
Particulars for Studebaker Clubhouse and Tree Sign: | |
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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 |
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