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Self-guided Tour
 

The Kade-Duesenberg German House and Cultural Center, 822 Mound Street, Valparaiso, Indiana.

As you enter the first-floor Cultural Center, you are in the lobby.
On either side of the lobby's fireplace stand full-length stained glass windows: Johann Sebastian Bach on the left...
   ...Martin Luther on the right. The lobby also features a 1939 Baldwin piano with a walnut case and LeCorbusier-style chairs.
 
 Just past the lobby is the reception.
 
Professors John Helms (Emeritus, Foreign Languages & Literatures), David Scupham of Biology, and David Truemper of Theology discuss their impressions of the brand new German House.
  
As you enter the second-floor German House, you are in the Great Room.
 
Student residents pledge to plan, prepare, and partake of their evening meals together on Sunday through Thursday. The residents use this marvelous kitchen to prepare the meals.
 
The second floor tv-lounge provides student residents with a comfortable place to relax, along with a welcoming view of the wooded south side of the building.
 
The only area of the second floor residence in which students are permitted to speak English is in their bedrooms; in all public areas they pledge to speak only German.