Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: Indianapolis’ First Public Schools, Part Two

Reader’s Question:  In your recent article on schools, I did not see any information about the Calvin Fletcher School.  Wasn’t it one of IPS’s earliest grade schools?  ~ Peggy H., Indianapolis HI’s Answer: In the previous Mailbag column...

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Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: Wood Lawn and Fletcher Place

Reader’s Question:  I am interested in the history of Wood Lawn, Calvin Fletcher’s farm.  By all accounts, the Fletchers came to Indianapolis in the 1820s, and the land that had been their home was known as Fletcher...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Fall of the House of Fletcher

When the youngest son of pioneer leader Calvin Fletcher graduated from Phillips Academy in 1865, he asked his classmates to sign an autograph book. “Dear Al,” one faded inscription reads, “As we hope to meet at...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: College Hall and the Daguerreotype of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Fletcher

1856 daguerreotype of Calvin and Keziah Fletcher. This is the only known image of Fletcher’s second wife. Note that the brass mat is embossed in the corners “W. H. Weeks” and “Indianapolis.” Click for larger...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Old House on the Corner, Revisited

Indianapolis Collected contributor Libby Cierzniak is traveling back to Indianapolis today from a short vacation in eastern Pennsylvania, so we’re reposting an article she wrote in early 2012 about pioneer leader James Blake, who made...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Laurel Hall

The Millersville Millionaires –  Now tucked away behind gates amongst old growth trees and more contemporary homes, sits the 1916 estate of Stoughton Fletcher, the Millersville millionaire. The Jacobean Revival-style manor designed by Herbert L. Bass (noted architect of...

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Posted in: A Room with a View A Room with a View – Indiana’s Tallest Building, The Chase Tower

Monument Circle from the 38th floor of the Chase Tower – photo by Ryan Hamlett Today, a view of a snowy monument circle from the 38th floor of the Chase Tower and a short history...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: A Valentine to Fletcher Wagner

Fletcher Wagner was a promising young man with a brilliant future.  By the time he turned 22, he’d launched the first daily high school newspaper in the country, won numerous awards in speech and debate,...

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Posted in: Sunday Prayers Sunday Prayers: Calvin Fletcher Jr. House on Penn

Since someone was recently inquiring about this gem on Penn, Sunday Prayers for a bit of love and TLC for 1031 North Pennsylvania, former home of Dr. Calvin I. Fletcher and Mrs. Nellie Webb Fletcher. ...

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