Posted in: General 5 Indy Hotels You’ll Wish You’d Seen

Above: The Grand Hotel in 1937 (Indiana Historical Society, William H. Bass Photo Company, #237,900) It goes without saying that the Claypool would be at the top of the list, but we just covered that...

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Posted in: General Lincoln Spoke Here: The Other Marker

Lincoln Marker When Affixed to Claypool Hotel One of Indianapolis’ big claims to fame is that Abraham Lincoln slept here. On the eve of his 52nd birthday, and on his way to be sworn in...

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Posted in: Misc Mondays Misc. Monday: Indy’s Most Famous Funeral Train

Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday 1865, and died the following morning.  For three days, the fallen leader’s remains lay in state in the White House as a vast host of mourners filed past. ...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: Local Residents Witness Lincoln Assassination

When Abraham Lincoln stopped in Indianapolis on his way to his first inauguration in 1861, he was carried from the train to the Bates House in a barouche drawn by a team of white horses.  The...

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Posted in: A Room with a View A Room with a View – Camp Robinson and Lew Wallace

Monument in the woods of Riverside Park, north of Municipal Gardens. Just up the bike path from the Municipal Gardens, along the White River is a peculiar boulder that can just barely be spotted from...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: A New Look at Lincoln

Have you ever taken the “one tank trip” to Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood home in southern Indiana, to see the log cabin where our sixteenth president grew up?  Do you remember dressing up in a stovepipe...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ad: Barney’s Jewelers, Lincoln Hotel

If you missed Libby’s fascinating article of yesterday, take a look at the map that shows the jewelry store out in front of the Lincoln Hotel, at the point where Washington, Kentucky and Illinois Streets...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania President Abraham Lincoln’s Last Stop in Indianapolis

April 30, 1865-While the city was rejoicing over the fall of Richmond and the surrender of Lee, the news came that President Lincoln had been assassinated. Never withing the history of the city had such...

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