Posted in: Historic Miscellania History of the St. Vincent Hospital Fall Creek Building

There were an improbable number of mustard bottles littering the kitchen table as we poked our heads through the doorway. In some ways, this apartment was just like every other in the crumbling edifice most...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Weyerbacher Terrace (St. Vincent’s) Rooftop

Downtown Indy from the roof of Weyerbacher Terrace/St. Vincent Hospital before the Ivy Tech expansion. It was estimated that nearly half of those born in Indianapolis between 1913 and 1974 came into this world in...

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Posted in: Building Language Building Language: Facadism

Facadism. Our next preservation related Building Language term, in honor of Preservation Month, is facadism. The term facadism occurs when a construction project “saves” the historic façade (or front) of a structure, but demolishes the...

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Posted in: A Room with a View Room With a View: Old Saint Vincent Hospital on Fall Creek

I was fortunate to attend the HUNI (Historic Urban Neighborhoods of Indianapolis) meeting on Saturday, which included a brief tour of Ivy Tech’s recently expanded site and what is left of  Saint Vincent Hospital–that front...

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