<Second St. Joseph Hotel>
117-119 West Colfax Avenue
- Date: 1868
- Style: Federal
- District: Downtown Historic Registry
The Second St. Joseph Hotel is the oldest existing commercial structure and is the second oldest building in downtown South Bend. Constructed in 1868, at least twenty years before any of the other existing commercial buildings, the style is unusual when compared to other commercial buildings of that era in South Bend. Rather than the typical Italianate commercial building with a flat roof and heavy cornice, the Second St. Joseph Hotel is a Federal-style building with a gabled roof originally punctuated by front gabled dormers. The only building downtown that is older than the Second St. Joseph Hotel is the Second County Courthouse built in 1855.
