Posted in: General Ghost Homes of the Old Northside

It’s hard to imagine today, but Delaware Street just north of downtown, was not always the one-way superhighway it is today, flanked on both sides by large apartment buildings, commercial operations and a smattering of...

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Posted in: Penny Post Penny Post: It is Great Here

Postmark: Indianapolis  Ind    May 12 1909   3:30PM Message: Say it is great here. Enjoying it fine. Addressee: Miss Laura Guess, Horton, Kans (Our) Post Script: It IS pretty great here, especially along this...

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Posted in: Then & Now Then & Now: White Castle No. 3, 660 Fort Wayne Avenue

White Castle No. 3, located on the northwest corner of Fort Wayne Avenue and Delaware Street, is the nation’s third-oldest surviving White Castle building. The small castle-shaped brick building, and hundreds of others across the...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Tansy Motor Service Station, 802 N. Delaware Street

Tansy Motor Service Station on the northwest corner of N. Delaware and St. Clair Streets, 8 Feb. 1949 (Courtesy of the Indianapolis Fire Department) This Indianapolis Fire Department photograph depicts fire damage at the Tansy...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: David Macy House, 408 N. Delaware Street

The David Macy house at 408 N. Delaware Street (The Indiana Album: Loaned by Joan Hostetler) Not many 1850s houses have survived in Indianapolis, but a unique government project begun during the Great Depression gives...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Volney T. Malott House, 536-558 N. Delaware Street

In about 1867 David Macy and his wife built a house at 558 N. Delaware Street for their only daughter Caroline and her husband Volney T. Malott, who had lived with the Macys since their...

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Posted in: Then & Now Then & Now: 1841 N. Delaware Street

The Milnor sisters in 1909 Attics, storage trunks and second hand shops throughout Indianapolis and the world over have little gems like this awaiting discovery. The provenance of and labels on old photos are key...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: The Reid-Dickson House, 1456 N. Delaware Street

1906. Courtesy of the Herron Art Library, Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission Collection Indianapolis was past the Victorian era of architecture with its turned posts, gingerbread trim, and Queen Ann details by the time the Reid...

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Posted in: Vintage Flats Flats Saved: North Delaware Street

Arundel, Vendrome, and Delaware flats; photo by Kurt Lee Nettleton Not too far from Massachusetts Avenue or Meridian Street, the 400 and 500 blocks of North Delaware Street were quiet and full of single family...

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Posted in: Vintage Flats 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 later, would become densely redeveloped as the commercial center of the city expanded and the need for more...

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Posted in: Building Language Building Language: Coping

Coping. The architectural term coping refers to the top course of masonry used to “cap” the top of an exterior wall. Coping is commonly sloped or curved to help divert water away from the building....

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: First Car to Win Indy 500, Marmon Wasp

From a 1913 advert for Marmon & Nordyke, the “Six-cylinder ‘Wasp,'” and winner of the first 500 Mile International Sweepstakes Race “against a field of 40 cars.” The local branch was listed at New York...

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Posted in: Heritage Steward History Steward: Jennifer Capps

Jennifer Capps, on a recent trip to Rome, Italy NAME: Jennifer Elaine Capps TITLE: VP of Curatorship & Exhibition  FOR: Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site SINCE: I have been Curator since 1993. I have worked at...

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Posted in: A Room with a View Room With a View: 2050 North Delaware

It’s always fun checking out the views from within the confines of an historic home–the romantic in my inevitably ponders how much the streetscape has changed or remained the same in the past 100+ years....

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Posted in: WTH WTH Weds: Former Block Mansion Site

As mentioned earlier this week in the Preservation Denied: William H. Block Mansion article, we feature the building that replaced that historic mansion as this week’s WTH.  This ranch-style cinder block replacement was constructed as...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania 1928 North Delaware now…

Check out a few photos of 1928 Delaware as it has been beautifully rehabbed by John Richardson. If every home had someone capable of such a loving and faithful restoration, what a beautiful place this...

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