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Forging Innovation
July 30, 2022 – July 9, 2023
Learn about South Bend’s first century of progress in the exhibit Forging Innovation, in conjunction with the South Bend Museum of Art’s Visualizing Innovation, which celebrates the city’s creative future and legacy of innovative thinking.
The Oliver Children
J.D. and Anna Oliver had 4 children when they moved into Copshaholm in 1897: James II was 11, Gertrude was 8, Joseph Jr. was 4, and Catherine was only 9
Joseph D. Oliver & Anna Gertrude Wells
Married on December 10, 1884, J.D. and Anna Oliver were 46 and 34, respectively, when they moved into their 38-room mansion. They met when Anna came to South Bend to
The Carriage House
A Carriage House was on the grounds of Copshaholm, and it housed the family’s cars and stabled some of their horses.
The Mansion’s Layout
The 12,000 square-foot Oliver Mansion has 3 floors and 38 rooms. It is often said the children’s favorite room was the Den because they could often find their father there,
The Mansion
Copshaholm was built of granite fieldstones, most of which were hand-selected by J.D. Oliver’s father, James, from farms and fields in St. Joseph County, where they lived.
January 26, 1897
The temperature in South Bend was -11° Farenheit.
January 7, 1897
The first-ever death sentence was handed down in the St. Joseph County Circuit Court.