Minturn Apartments, 22nd & Capitol
The city is replete with buildings like this–loaded with potential, sad and forlorn–a...
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Vintage Flats
Flats Saved: Virginia Avenue
Renna, 1912, Bass Photo Co., courtesy Indiana Landmarks What’s your favorite bar or shop on...
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Flats Lost & Saved: Honorable Mentions Pt 2
Is it a death sentence for a building if it doesn’t make the National Register? Not always....
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Flats Lost & Saved: Honorable Mentions
What happens to buildings that never receive historic protections? Â Is it the kiss of death?...
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Flats Lost: I-65 Construction
Do you remember the Indiana highway construction of the 1960’s and 1970’s? Many apartment...
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Flats Saved: Heier’s Hotel
The Heier Hotel, located at 12-18 South New Jersey Street, is named after original owner Fred...
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Flats Lost: Lorraine Building
The Lorraine Building, an extended-stay hotel constructed in 1891, was located at 201 West...
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Vacant: Old City Hall
How many great memories do you have at the old City Hall building? The event coordinators of...
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Flats Saved: The Woessner
Corner facade, 2013, (c) photo by Kurt Lee Nettleton The Woessner Building, located at 902-910...
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Flats Saved: the L’Avon
What’s your favorite flatiron building downtown? This apartment building is a potential...
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Flats Lost: Falling Through the Cracks
How do historic properties, listed on multiple National Registers, become abandoned neighborhood...
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Flats Saved: Fletcher Avenue
Due to the large population increase of downtown in 1890-1920, the addition of apartments was...
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Flats Saved: North Pennsylvania Street
Limestone detailing of the Sylvania, 2013, (c) photo by Kurt Lee Nettleton What’s your...
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Flats Lost & Saved: Two Alamedas and the Avenue Hotel
The 400-block of Massachusetts Avenue is one of the most interesting blocks in the city –...
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Flats Lost & Saved: Northwest Quad
The St. Clair, built at 107-109 West St. Clair Street in 1899, is a true example of a flat saved...
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Flats Saved: North Delaware Street
Arundel, Vendrome, and Delaware flats; photo by Kurt Lee Nettleton Not too far from Massachusetts...
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Flats Lost & Saved: Mass Ave & Vermont Street
The Sanborn map above is of the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Vermont Street, and Alabama...
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Flats Lost & Saved: Corner of Delaware & New York
The picture above is from the Indianapolis Illustrated book of 1889. The block, not even ten years...
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Flats Lost: Memorial Plaza
The Chalfant, Courtesy Bass Photo Co Collection, Indiana Historical Society Have you admired the...
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Flats Lost and Saved: The Lower Canal
Before the Canal District we know of today, the one filled with contemporary art, public spaces,...
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