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Then & Now: Lemcke Building

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Nov 4, 2021 | Featured Article, Then & Now | 0 |

Lemcke Building, circa 1910. Note Deschler’s Cigars on the first floor....

Then & Now: Ardmore Apartments

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Mar 4, 2020 | Featured Article, General, Then & Now | 0 |

Ardmore Block, 1936. Image courtesy: Bass Photo Co. Collection, Indiana Historical Society...

Preservation Denied: Bates/ When Building

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | May 29, 2019 | Featured Article, General, Historic Miscellania | 8 |

Newspapers in February 1874 announced that Hervey Bates, Jr. would soon commence building a new...

Preservation Denied: The Cleaveland/ Magnolia Building

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | May 8, 2019 | Featured Article, General | 2 |

Magnolia Building. Image: Bass Photo Collection, Indiana Historical Society It was May 1875 when...

Superior Design: Pembroke Arcade

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | May 1, 2019 | Featured Article, General, Then & Now | 5 |

Original architectural rendering of Pembroke Arcade, Washington Street by Vonnegut & Bohn What...

Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A.

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured Article, General, Ladies Lounge | 3 |

Anyone who has ever gotten anywhere in life has had help. Whether family, friends, teachers,...

Rufus Cantrell, Intruder in the Dust

by Stephen J. Taylor | Oct 19, 2015 | Featured Article, Historic Miscellania | 0 |

In 1935, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges weighed in on what mathematicians later called...

The Little Known Reason Indy’s SuperBowl is overdue

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Feb 3, 2012 | Featured Article, Historic Miscellania | 6 |

from 1929 IU yearbook Ask someone if they know about Indy’s football history and the...

Indianapolis Collected: What goes around, comes around – the oval road to the Super Bowl.

by Libby Cierzniak | Jan 21, 2012 | Featured Article, Indianapolis Collected | 14 |

Celluloid pin promoting the 1898 League of American Wheelmen National Meet. There’ll be...

Featured Article

Then & Now: Lemcke Building

Then & Now: Ardmore Apartments

Preservation Denied: Bates/ When Building

Preservation Denied: The Cleaveland/ Magnolia Building

Superior Design: Pembroke Arcade

Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A.

Rufus Cantrell, Intruder in the Dust

The Little Known Reason Indy’s SuperBowl is overdue

Indianapolis Collected: What goes around, comes around – the oval road to the Super Bowl.

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