Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected Revisted: The Fall and Rise of the Old Northside

...sales in the neighborhood. And while you’re hunting for garage sale gold, be sure and stop by the Old Northside booth at the antique market to pick up a walking......

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania 16th & College, One of the oldest commercial buildings in Old Northside…

…has mere minutes of life left. The wrecking equipment is on site now and the hours are numbered for this beloved historic corner. R.I.P. Something about its much earlier history......

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Posted in: Heritage Steward Live from the Old Northside: An interview with Paul Smith

...Paul Smith, a resident of the Old Northside since 1977 and a board member of Indiana Landmarks. Paul has given so much of himself to the Old Northside neighborhood and......

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Former First Friends Church, Old Northside

Former Friends Church, 1249 N. Alabama – Photo by Ryan Hamlett The former Friends Church building at 13th and Alabama in the Old North Side has had a busy year......

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Fall and Rise of the Old Northside

...up in the area known today as the Old Northside historic district, in a large brick home at 1100 Pennsylvania Street. He returned to the home after his parents died......

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania More Old Northside photos

...of the old Centrum building/new Indiana Landmarks Center to brighten the afternoon. A lilly blossom, from 2006 Sun glinting off the gold leaf on one of the restored pinnacles.  ......

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then & Now: 1424 Delaware, Old Northside

If you’ve ever been on North Delaware Street, across the street from the Harrison Center for the Arts, you might notice the B&B that looks like an old-fashioned fortress/ castle.......

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Old Northside & College Corner Club

...and I-65. According to the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission’s “Old Northside Historic Area Preservation Plan,” two early neighborhoods combined into one to create the current Old Northside. “College Corners” was......

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania An Old Northside Church – All Souls Unitarian

Time to check out another Old Northside church. Or at least, former church. It’s latest use has been as a private home. The Old Northside’s Preservation Plan says this building......

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania The Devil in the Old Northside

...Pentecostal influenced theatrics and staged faith healings. In 1956, Jones bought his first church, a small building in the racially mixed Old Northside at 1502 North New Jersey Street. Here,......

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Posted in: General Ghost Homes of the Old Northside

...operations and a smattering of remaining mansions. There was a time when it was pretty much all mansions, all the time, through what is today the Old Northside. In addition......

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Park Tudor’s Connection to the Old Northside

How’s that? Park Tudor is above Broad Ripple–how is it connected to the Old Northside? From the 1918 Blue Book, an advert for the Brooks School For Boys. We showed......

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Butler in the Old Northside, Part 2

...by Old Northside preservationists, or so the story goes, after seeing what was happening to other neighborhoods with the other interstates (we’ll cover that another time). Unfortunately, the idea still......

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The things we leave behind

...Northside. I walked into the house, saw an old photograph of a dog, and told my profoundly skeptical husband that the photo was a “sign” we should buy this house......

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Posted in: Building Language Building Language: Infill

...a reminder of the wonderful architecture found within the Old Northside… Old Northside, 1200 Block North Alabama Street Residence on the 1400 Block North Park Avenue, Old Northside …and then,......

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Posted in: Vintage Flats Flats Lost: I-65 Construction

...building was unique beyond its commercial/flat design, which was rare in the Old Northside, but also due to its irregular shape and extremely large old forest trees that paralleled the......

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: A Road By Any Other Name

...by the Tennessee Street switch. The eastern portion of the Old Northside historic district in 1890. The News’ sudden allegiance to the Ralston plan may have been reflective of other......

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Posted in: Heritage Steward Heritage Steward: Libby Cierzniak

...the board of the Old Northside Neighborhood Association. SINCE? I’m a late bloomer in the historic preservation arena. Even though I decided I wanted to move to the Old Northside......

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Posted in: Heritage Steward Historic Indianapolis Hero: J. Scott Keller

...that all addresses easily trip off his tongue as if reciting a list of his dearest old friends. 1226 N. Park Avenue, one of my favorites in the Old Northside,......

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Connected: Six Degrees of Hiram Bacon

...his daughter, Demia, the first female to graduate from the school. Catharine subsequently sold her interest in the Old Northside properties to her brother, Samuel Jr., who built a magnificent......

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