The Remedy Building - Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Northern Regional Office (South Bend, Indiana)

 landmark, place with historical importance, interesting place

www.historiclandmarks.org/
402 West Washington Street
South Bend, IN 46601
574-232-4534

For over 30 years, the South Bend Remedy Company manufactured cures for various ailments from a Queen Anne-style home with a distinctive tower. In addition to serving as the patent medicine firm’s laboratory and office, the 1895 house provided an apartment for owner Albert Kelly. The company sold such popular products as Royal Tea and Magnolia Blossom (promoted as a cure for “female complaints”) until it folded in 1928 following the death of Kelly’s son, Richard L. Kelly.

The landmark was threatened with the wrecking ball and moved twice before finding a permanent home on a prominent corner of in South Bend’s West Washington Street Historic District. Historic Landmarks Foundation completed restoration of the building in 2003, and it now serves as our Northern Regional Office.