South Bend, Indiana: Studebaker Museum

This was a wonderful car museum.  There were three floors of  cars, carriages and army vehicle that the Studebaker brothers made. David really enjoyed the museum and I enjoyed it even thought I'm not a car enthusiast.

The Studebaker brothers

All of the rest of the images are the various vehicles we saw inside the museum.

South Bend, Indiana J. D. Oliver's Home

J. D. Oliver was an American inventor. He was the founder of the South Bend Iron Words, which was renamed the Oliver Equipment Company when it was incorporated. The pictures are of his elegant 38-room mansion.

The Stables

The Oliver's Mansion

Above the front door

The ceiling on the front porch

The furnishings were the originals of the Oliver family.  There were some updates in the mansion in the fifties by one of the daughters.