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Of Spirits and Soldiers

by Stephen J. Taylor | Sep 21, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 3 |

Fall is here. So it’s time to keep on the spectral side of life. On June 6, 1910, the...

Sunday Ads: Raggedy Indy

by Lisa Lorentz | Mar 8, 2015 | Sunday Ads | 5 |

A Sweet Little Raggedy Doll and a Sweet Little Raggedy House at 537 N. Tacoma Avenue Raggedy Ann...

Sunday Adverts: When Indy put the “Fun” in Funeral

by Lisa Lorentz | Oct 26, 2014 | Sunday Ads | 2 |

Ads from the 1914 Indiana Funeral Directors Convention, Indianapolis Star Funeral...

Friday Favorite: Sweet Caroline

by Lisa Lorentz | Jul 18, 2014 | Friday Favorites | 1 |

How Do You Not Know This Woman? Not just “Benjamin Harrison’s wife,” she was...

Friday Favorite: Can Indy Claim First Ever Auto Accident?

by Lisa Lorentz | May 30, 2014 | Friday Favorites | 0 |

YOU Decide… Our fair city, whose international fame is flavored heavily with automotive...

Friday Favorite: Arsenal Tech Trivia

by Lisa Lorentz | May 9, 2014 | Friday Favorites | 33 |

Bet You Didn’t Know…” Regardless of the side of town in which you live, if...

Indiana’s S & S War Memorial Sculptor

by Ryan Hamlett | May 6, 2014 | Historic Miscellania | 9 |

A close up view of “The Dying Solider” on the east side of the Solider’s and...

Riverside Pumping Station

by Ryan Hamlett | Apr 8, 2014 | Historic Miscellania | 5 |

Citizen’s Water Co. Riverside Pumping House at 1201 Waterway Boulevard – Photo by Ryan...

Friday Favorite: 1852 Balloon Scheme Goes Bust

by Lisa Lorentz | Jan 31, 2014 | Friday Favorites | 4 |

Indianapolis businessman, J. H. McKernan, had it all arranged — a day of perfect weather and...

HI Mailbag: Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne Stevenson (Part I)

by Sharon Butsch Freeland | Dec 3, 2013 | Mailbag | 4 |

Reader’s Question: What can you tell me about the homes in which Fanny Stevenson lived in...

Indianapolis Collected: The Last of the Civil War Soldiers

by Libby Cierzniak | Nov 16, 2013 | Indianapolis Collected | 11 |

During the summer of 1949, an elderly man named Joseph Clovese bought a new pair of shoes. Made...

Friday Favorite: Richard Dale Owen

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Apr 5, 2013 | Friday Favorites | 8 |

Richard Dale Owen was born in New Lanark, Scotland, died in New Harmony, Indiana and a sculpture...

A Room with a View – Camp Robinson and Lew Wallace

by Ryan Hamlett | Mar 5, 2013 | A Room with a View | 13 |

Monument in the woods of Riverside Park, north of Municipal Gardens. Just up the bike path from...

HI Mailbag: Marshall “Major” Taylor

by Sharon Butsch Freeland | Jan 29, 2013 | Mailbag | 8 |

Reader’s Question: I recall that cyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor was born in...

Indianapolis Then and Now: Arsenal Building, 1500 E. Michigan Street

by Joan Hostetler | Sep 27, 2012 | Then & Now | 7 |

Since the US Arsenal in Indianapolis was one of three arsenals commissioned by Congress during the...

Then and Now: The Little Depot and the Interstate

by Joan Hostetler | Oct 13, 2011 | Then & Now | 0 |

Although a psychic once told me that I “don’t have a psychic bone in my body,” as a local...

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Of Spirits and Soldiers

Sunday Ads: Raggedy Indy

Sunday Adverts: When Indy put the “Fun” in Funeral

Friday Favorite: Sweet Caroline

Friday Favorite: Can Indy Claim First Ever Auto Accident?

Friday Favorite: Arsenal Tech Trivia

Indiana’s S & S War Memorial Sculptor

Riverside Pumping Station

Friday Favorite: 1852 Balloon Scheme Goes Bust

HI Mailbag: Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne Stevenson (Part I)

Indianapolis Collected: The Last of the Civil War Soldiers

Friday Favorite: Richard Dale Owen

A Room with a View – Camp Robinson and Lew Wallace

HI Mailbag: Marshall “Major” Taylor

Indianapolis Then and Now: Arsenal Building, 1500 E. Michigan Street

Then and Now: The Little Depot and the Interstate

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