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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...
Read More5 Indy Hotels You’ll Wish You’d Seen
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Jan 8, 2020 | General | 0 |
Above: The Grand Hotel in 1937 (Indiana Historical Society, William H. Bass Photo Company,...
Read MorePreservation Denied: Bates/ When Building
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | May 29, 2019 | General, Historic Miscellania | 8 |
Newspapers in February 1874 announced that Hervey Bates, Jr. would soon commence building a  new...
Read MoreUniversity Park: Depew Fountain
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | May 22, 2019 | General | 1 |
When Ralston originally platted the city of Indianapolis, he made no provision for parks. The...
Read MoreHow the Claypool Hotel Began
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | May 15, 2019 | General | 9 |
Early vintage luggage label from Claypool Hotel (Don’t forget–May is preservation...
Read MorePreservation Denied: The Cleaveland Block/ Magnolia Building
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | May 8, 2019 | General | 2 |
Magnolia Building. Image: Bass Photo Collection, Indiana Historical Society It was May 1875 when...
Read MoreSuperior 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...
Read MoreWar of the State Flowers
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Apr 10, 2019 | General | 1 |
It was never about roses. That’s our national flower. This tale is about Indiana’s...
Read MoreForget Sudoku, Try Solving this Mystery
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Apr 3, 2019 | General | 6 |
You want a really challenging brain teaser? Forget the New York Times crossword or advanced...
Read MoreWill Indy’s First Female Architect Please Stand Up?
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Mar 27, 2019 | Featured Article, General, Ladies Lounge | 0 |
“Our profession, as an entirety is not fitted for women,” an anonymous male architect...
Read MoreThen & Now: The Cuyler Studio, 1527 N. College Ave.
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Mar 13, 2019 | General | 0 |
The Cuyler Studio and home, 1527 North College Avenue We’ve all heard stories of the woman...
Read MoreThe Woman Behind the Tablet
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Mar 6, 2019 | General | 0 |
Where Marie H. Stewart lived from 1916-1952 And we aren’t talking an electronic tablet,...
Read MorePhyllis 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,...
Read MoreMadam CJ Walker
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Feb 20, 2019 | General | 3 |
1998 U.S. Postage stamp, honoring Madam C. J. Ever wonder who your role models’ role models...
Read MoreLincoln Spoke Here: The Other Marker
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Feb 11, 2019 | General | 0 |
Lincoln Marker When Affixed to Claypool Hotel One of Indianapolis’ big claims to fame is...
Read MoreWhere Wes Montgomery…?
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Feb 6, 2019 | General | 1 |
Wes Montgomery, image courtesy Indiana Historical Society, M1178, taken by Duncan Schiedt In the...
Read MoreThen and Now: At Vermont and Meridian, Part II – 10 E. Vermont
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Jan 30, 2019 | General | 0 |
Above: a doctored image showing part of 18 East Vermont with the First Baptist Church at the...
Read MoreHappy National Handwriting Day from Indianapolis
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Jan 23, 2019 | General | 0 |
You love old stuff, right? Or else, why would you be on this website? Assuming that’s the...
Read MoreThe Who and How of Indiana’s State Flag
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Jan 9, 2019 | General | 0 |
Mrs. John N. Carey was attending a convention of the National Society of the Daughters of the...
Read MoreGhost Homes of the Old Northside
by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Dec 5, 2018 | General | 2 |
It’s hard to imagine today, but Delaware Street just north of downtown, was not always the...
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