City and Campus

An Architectural History of South Bend, Notre Dame, and Saint Mary's

John W. Stamper, Benjamin J. Young

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780268107420
  9780268108212
• eBook ISBN:
  9780268207731
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

City and Campus tells the rich history of a Midwest industrial town and its two academic institutions through the buildings that helped bring these places to life.

John W. Stamper paints a narrative portrait of South Bend and the campuses of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College from their founding and earliest settlement in the 1830s through the boom of the Roaring Twenties. Industrialist giants such as the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company and Oliver Chilled Plow Works invested their wealth into creating some of the city's most important and historically significant buildings.

Famous architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, brought the latest trends in architecture to the heart of South Bend. Stamper also illuminates how Notre Dame's founder and long-time president Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C., recruited other successful architects to craft in stone the foundations of the university and the college at the same time as he built the scholarship. City and Campus provides an engaging and definitive history of how this urban and academic environment emerged on the shores of the St. Joseph River.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Editor’s Note
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 South Bend’s Settlement and Early Development
• 2 The Founding of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s
• 3 South Bend’s First Works of Architecture
• 4 Developing the Early Nineteenth-Century Neighborhoods
• 5 Industrial Giants
• 6 Institutions of Faith and Reason
• 7 Building Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s in the 1880s
• 8 Late Nineteenth-Century Residential Architecture
• 9 Magnificent Mansions
• 10 Turn-of-the-Century Churches and Institutions
• 11 Beaux-Arts Classicism and the Civic Ideal, 1893–1918
• 12 South Bend and the City Beautiful Movement
• 13 Residential Architecture in the New Century: From Neoclassicism to the Prairie School and Arts and Crafts
• 14 Eclecticism and the Commercial Downtown
• 15 Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s in the Early Twentieth Century: Introducing the Collegiate Gothic
• 16 Epilogue: The Great Depression, the Advent of Modernism, and the Search for a New Identity
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index of Images
• General Index