Posted in: Then & Now Then & Now: Knickerbacker Hall, 1545 Central Avenue

Knickerbacker Hall (misspelled) from a post card mailed in 1910 If you have ever driven south of 16th Street on Central Avenue, you may have noticed a big church on the southeast corner. What you...

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Posted in: Then & Now Then & Now: Twente Upholstery Company, 1010 Central Avenue

Courtesy of the Indiana State Library Among the thousands of businesses to call Indianapolis home was the upholstery shop of L. G. Twente located at what was then 8 Central Avenue (today 1010 Central Avenue...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now Revisited: Zaring’s Egytian Theatre, 2741 Central Avenue

Courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society, Bass Photo Company Collection #94388, 1925. This view looks east toward Central Avenue from 28th Street. After witnessing people jamming into packed movie theatres and sensing a good business opportunity,...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: The Hammond-Wright House, 4150 Central Avenue

Last week’s Then and Now column about the Hammond Block Building at 301 Massachusetts led me to wonder about its builder, Rezin R. Hammond. Although Hammond sold the flatiron building to a physician within a...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Zaring’s Egyptian Theatre, 2741 Central Avenue

Courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society, Bass Photo Company Collection #94388, 1925. This view looks east toward Central Avenue from 28th Street. After witnessing people jamming into packed movie theaters and sensing a good business...

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Posted in: Building Language Building Language: Gothic Revival

Gothic Revival. Let’s travel a little farther back in time to discuss the wonderful architectural style of the Gothic Revival. This architectural style was common in the middle decades of the 19th century, featured on...

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

Celluloid pin promoting the 1898 League of American Wheelmen National Meet. There’ll be plenty of credit to go around when Indianapolis hosts the Super Bowl next month. The entrepreneurs who put a racetrack in a...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: W. E. Mick Building and Aquilina Apartments, Central Avenue and East 30th Street

The W. E. Mick Building, also known as the Aquilina Apartments, was a brick structure built in 1910-11 on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and East 30th Street. Realtor and developer William E. Mick...

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Posted in: Sunday Prayers Sunday Prayer for a WTH- Central & Fall Creek

World’s collide here. Yep, right at Central and Fall Creek Parkway–well, this is technically about 1/2 a block north of Fall Creek Parkway–but still it’s a disastrous collision. So many lovely commercial buildings in this...

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