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: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: The Sommers Store

The Sommers Store, heralded in this advertisement from 1910 as “The Largest, Exceptional, Most Capable Home Furnishing Store in Indiana” was owned by Charles B. Sommers, who, a few years after this advertisement, bought the...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Mission Style Furniture

  The W. D. Allison Company was known more for making furniture specific to the needs of physicians and doctors, as noted here, and as found in second hand stores and auctions today. In 1897,...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: IOOF Lodge and John Koch Furniture / Interstate 65-70, 824-30 Virginia Avenue

Courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society, William H. Bass Photo Company Collection, Neg. 35980-F John Koch’s furniture store occupied this ca. 1900 brick building located between Fountain Square and Fletcher Place for over five decades....

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Posted in: Heritage Steward Heritage Steward: David Buchanan

NAME: David Buchanan TITLE: Curator, Decorative Arts and Furniture   FOR: Indiana State Museum & State Historic Sites Corporation SINCE? With the state, since 1997 both at the Indiana State Museum and with the Indiana War...

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