WEBVTT 00:00:06.906 --> 00:00:08.174 ENDANGERED INDIANA SERIES TAKES 00:00:08.241 --> 00:00:11.177 US TO A LONG-ABANDONED BREWERY 00:00:11.244 --> 00:00:11.878 IN NORTHERN INDIANA. 00:00:11.945 --> 00:00:12.512 FOR NEARLY A CENTURY, KAMM AND 00:00:12.579 --> 00:00:15.682 SCHELLINGER BOOMED ALONG THE ST. 00:00:15.749 --> 00:00:16.216 JOSEPH RIVER. AT ONE TIME 00:00:16.282 --> 00:00:16.883 PRODUCING OVER 75,000 BARRELS OF 00:00:16.950 --> 00:00:19.085 BEER A YEAR. 00:00:19.152 --> 00:00:20.220 BUT TIME HAS TAKEN ITS TOLL ON 00:00:20.286 --> 00:00:23.189 THE PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA BUILDING 00:00:23.256 --> 00:00:23.790 THAT'S SAT EMPTY FOR SEVERAL 00:00:23.857 --> 00:00:24.023 DECADES. 00:00:24.090 --> 00:00:24.524 AROUND INDIANA REPORTER 00:00:24.591 --> 00:00:27.894 MARY-RACHEL REDMAN HAS MORE FROM 00:00:27.961 --> 00:00:30.864 MISHAWAKA. 00:00:30.930 --> 00:00:32.065 >> ONE BEAUTIFUL BEER. 00:00:32.132 --> 00:00:35.435 >> THE OLDEST KNOWN RECIPE IN 00:00:35.502 --> 00:00:36.002 THE WORLD IS BEER. 00:00:36.069 --> 00:00:38.338 [MUSIC] 00:00:38.405 --> 00:00:42.709 >> IN FACT, SOME HISTORIANS 00:00:42.776 --> 00:00:45.111 CREDIT THE COLD ONE WITH THE 00:00:45.178 --> 00:00:46.913 RISE OF CIVILIZATION ITSELF. 00:00:46.980 --> 00:00:49.883 SO ONE COULD ARGUE AMERICA'S 00:00:49.949 --> 00:00:51.885 EARLIEST BREWERIES SHOULD BE 00:00:51.951 --> 00:00:52.886 CONSIDERED HALLOWED GROUND, 00:00:52.952 --> 00:00:54.387 ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE STILL 00:00:54.454 --> 00:00:55.188 STANDING. 00:00:55.255 --> 00:00:55.321 . 00:00:55.388 --> 00:01:00.460 IT MAY NOT BE A COORS OR A 00:01:00.527 --> 00:01:02.929 BUDWEISER, IT ITS DAY, KAMM AND 00:01:02.996 --> 00:01:04.898 SCHELLINGER WAS QUITE THE 00:01:04.964 --> 00:01:05.198 OPERATION. 00:01:05.265 --> 00:01:06.666 >> KAMM AND SCHELLINGER, THEY 00:01:06.733 --> 00:01:08.535 MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE 00:01:08.601 --> 00:01:10.804 LARGEST IN MISHAWAKA, LOTS OF 00:01:10.870 --> 00:01:11.070 PRODUCTS. 00:01:11.137 --> 00:01:11.805 NAME WAS EVERYWHERE. 00:01:11.871 --> 00:01:18.778 >> IT WAS BROTHERS IN LAW THAT 00:01:18.845 --> 00:01:20.680 WOULD MAKE THE BREWING COMPANY 00:01:20.747 --> 00:01:23.183 ONE THE MISHAWAKA'S MOST 00:01:23.249 --> 00:01:24.584 CELEBRATED MANUFACTURERS. 00:01:24.651 --> 00:01:26.653 >> KAMM AND SCHELLINGER BREWERY 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:29.622 STARTED IN 1853. 00:01:29.689 --> 00:01:32.625 THE KAMM FAMILY, THERE ARE TWO 00:01:32.692 --> 00:01:34.360 HOUSES, THIS HOUSE AND THAT 00:01:34.427 --> 00:01:35.895 HOUSE, WERE FAMILY HOMES, 00:01:35.962 --> 00:01:37.096 MRS. KAMM COOKED FOR THE 00:01:37.163 --> 00:01:37.564 WORKERS. 00:01:37.630 --> 00:01:38.531 IT WAS A FAMILY AFFAIR. 00:01:38.598 --> 00:01:41.568 >> ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS, THE 00:01:41.634 --> 00:01:42.869 PROHIBITION THEY STARTED MAKING 00:01:42.936 --> 00:01:44.737 ROOT BEER AND OTHER TYPES OF 00:01:44.804 --> 00:01:44.971 THINGS. 00:01:45.038 --> 00:01:46.940 >> WHEN PROHIBITION ENDED, IT 00:01:47.006 --> 00:01:48.975 WAS THE FIRST BREWING OPERATION 00:01:49.042 --> 00:01:50.443 TO RESUME MAKING BEER, AND 00:01:50.510 --> 00:01:52.212 PRODUCTION HIT AN ALL-TIME HIGH. 00:01:52.278 --> 00:01:55.448 SO MUCH SO IT SPONSORED THE 00:01:55.515 --> 00:01:58.251 NUMBER 47KAMM SPECIAL IN THE 00:01:58.318 --> 00:01:59.486 1938 INDIANAPOLIS 500. 00:01:59.552 --> 00:02:01.387 >> IT WAS A SUCCESSFUL 00:02:01.454 --> 00:02:02.889 FAMILY-RUN BUSINESS FOR ALMOST 00:02:02.956 --> 00:02:03.423 100 YEARS. 00:02:03.490 --> 00:02:05.592 >> BUT THE PROSPERITY WOULDN'T 00:02:05.658 --> 00:02:06.993 LAST. 00:02:07.060 --> 00:02:09.529 IN 1951, THE BREWERY PERMANENTLY 00:02:09.596 --> 00:02:09.929 CLOSED. 00:02:09.996 --> 00:02:11.698 IT WOULD SEE NEW LIFE, THOUGH, 00:02:11.764 --> 00:02:14.767 IN THE LATE '60s WHEN DEVELOPERS 00:02:14.834 --> 00:02:16.135 ADAPTED THE SITE INTO A POPULAR 00:02:16.202 --> 00:02:18.938 COMPLEX OF SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS 00:02:19.005 --> 00:02:19.873 KNOWN AS THE 100 CENTER. 00:02:19.939 --> 00:02:22.041 >> IT WAS THE PLACE TO BE UNTIL 00:02:22.108 --> 00:02:24.477 THE 1980s WHEN THE NEW MALLS 00:02:24.544 --> 00:02:26.179 WERE BUILT UP NORTH OF TOWN AND 00:02:26.246 --> 00:02:27.881 KIND OF THE ENERGY SHIFTED. 00:02:27.947 --> 00:02:30.884 AND THIS HAS KIND OF BEEN A SLOW 00:02:30.950 --> 00:02:31.518 DECLINE SINCE. 00:02:31.584 --> 00:02:33.853 >> WE'RE NOT ABLE TO GET INSIDE 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:35.221 THE BUILDING, EVEN AS A CITY, 00:02:35.288 --> 00:02:37.524 BECAUSE WE HAVE AN OUT OF TOWN 00:02:37.590 --> 00:02:37.924 OWNER. 00:02:37.991 --> 00:02:39.292 SO WE DON'T KNOW THE SITUATION 00:02:39.359 --> 00:02:41.194 WITH THE STATE OF OF THE 00:02:41.261 --> 00:02:41.694 BUILDING INSIDE. 00:02:41.761 --> 00:02:44.197 BUT STRUCTURALLY IT LOOKS PRETTY 00:02:44.264 --> 00:02:44.731 DARN GOOD. 00:02:44.797 --> 00:02:47.000 >> SOLID MASONRY, BRICK AND 00:02:47.066 --> 00:02:47.267 CONCRETE. 00:02:47.333 --> 00:02:50.603 >> THIS PIECE IS KIND OF COMING 00:02:50.670 --> 00:02:51.004 OFF. 00:02:51.070 --> 00:02:53.206 AND BEHIND IT YOU'VE GOT THESE 00:02:53.273 --> 00:02:54.674 METAL BARS BLOCKING. 00:02:54.741 --> 00:02:55.542 >> A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS 00:02:55.608 --> 00:02:56.743 GOING ON BACK HERE, WHICH I 00:02:56.809 --> 00:02:58.244 THINK IS PART OF THE FUN OF THIS 00:02:58.311 --> 00:02:58.511 SITE. 00:02:58.578 --> 00:02:59.913 >> TO ME, THE BEST PART IS THE 00:02:59.979 --> 00:03:02.515 FACT THAT THIS IS IT ON THE 00:03:02.582 --> 00:03:02.949 ST. JOSEPH RIVER. 00:03:03.016 --> 00:03:04.284 >> AN AMAZING LOCATION, WE 00:03:04.350 --> 00:03:05.451 TALKED ABOUT THE RIVER WAS PART 00:03:05.518 --> 00:03:06.653 OF WHAT REALLY RAN THE FACTORY. 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:12.692 >> IT LOOKS LIKE AN MOAT, TO ME. 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:13.893 SURROUNDING THE BUILDING, AND 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:15.395 THIS WAS THE WATER THAT SOURCED 00:03:15.461 --> 00:03:16.329 THE POWER. 00:03:16.396 --> 00:03:18.765 >> THAT RAN THE KAMM BREWERY. 00:03:18.831 --> 00:03:20.833 >> THIS BACK HERE IS FABULOUS. 00:03:20.900 --> 00:03:22.201 >> JUST SHOWS ALL OF THE 00:03:22.268 --> 00:03:23.703 DIFFERENT ERAS OF THIS BUILDING 00:03:23.770 --> 00:03:27.440 IN THE 1860s, AND 70s, THEN 00:03:27.507 --> 00:03:29.409 LATER ADDITIONS, ALL THE WAY 00:03:29.475 --> 00:03:31.878 THROUGH THE 19s, TEENS, AND 30s, 00:03:31.945 --> 00:03:33.379 THE ICE HOUSE, THE LARGE 00:03:33.446 --> 00:03:34.347 BUILDING ON THE RIGHT. 00:03:34.414 --> 00:03:37.116 >> RANDOM FUN FACT, THE ICE 00:03:37.183 --> 00:03:39.552 HOUSE OWNED INDIANA'S FIRST 00:03:39.619 --> 00:03:40.720 ARTIFICIAL ICE MACHINE IN 1889. 00:03:40.787 --> 00:03:42.956 >> THEY WOULD USE THAT BUILDING 00:03:43.022 --> 00:03:44.457 TO HELP COOL AND ICE DOWN THE 00:03:44.524 --> 00:03:46.926 BEER UNTIL THEY STARTED MAKING 00:03:46.993 --> 00:03:48.461 ROOT BEER. 00:03:48.528 --> 00:03:50.163 >> AND THAT WAS PROHIBITION. 00:03:50.229 --> 00:03:52.665 >> YEAH, ROOT BEER HAD TO DO 00:03:52.732 --> 00:03:52.932 SOMETHING. 00:03:52.999 --> 00:03:54.901 AND SO THE TALL BUILDING WHICH I 00:03:54.968 --> 00:03:56.569 THINK ALSO OFFERS LOTS OF 00:03:56.636 --> 00:03:57.604 OPPORTUNITIES FOR REUSE. 00:03:57.670 --> 00:03:59.539 YOU COULD PUT A LOT OF DIFFERENT 00:03:59.606 --> 00:04:01.941 THINGS INSIDE THIS LARGE TALL 00:04:02.008 --> 00:04:02.208 BUILDING. 00:04:02.275 --> 00:04:03.242 >> IT'S BEAUTIFUL. 00:04:03.309 --> 00:04:03.443 YEAH. 00:04:03.509 --> 00:04:05.078 >> AND REALLY BRING IT BACK TO 00:04:05.144 --> 00:04:05.878 LIFE AGAIN. 00:04:05.945 --> 00:04:07.113 HOPEFULLY WITH MORE HEAT THAN 00:04:07.180 --> 00:04:08.548 WHEN IT WAS AN ICE HOUSE. 00:04:08.615 --> 00:04:10.149 P>> NOW TO THE FRONT OF THE 00:04:10.216 --> 00:04:10.416 BUILDING. 00:04:10.483 --> 00:04:11.217 >> CERTAINLY LOTS HERE THAT 00:04:11.284 --> 00:04:13.219 COULD BE WORKED WITH TO BRING A 00:04:13.286 --> 00:04:15.888 LOT OF CHARACTER BACK INTO A NEW 00:04:15.955 --> 00:04:16.456 USE. 00:04:16.522 --> 00:04:19.792 BUT JUST REAL DYNAMIC FACADES, 00:04:19.859 --> 00:04:20.860 IT NEEDS A NEW LIFE.