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Sunday Ads: Music to Your Ears

by Jeff Kamm | Oct 9, 2016 | Sunday Ads | 2 |

Business: Wilking Music Company Location: 120 East Ohio Street, near Massachusetts Avenue Years...

Grasshopper Jails & Other “Monkey Business”

by Stephen J. Taylor | Nov 16, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 1 |

If you peek into newspapers from any decade, it doesn’t take long to find some downright...

Penny Post: Mass Ave at Night

by Ashley Haynes | Jan 14, 2015 | Penny Post | 2 |

Postmarked: INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – AUG 1-, 1913 – 6-PM Message: 230 South Illinois St....

Then & Now: Criswell Mercantile Company/MacNiven’s Restaurant & Bar, 337-339 Massachusetts Avenue

by Joan Hostetler | Nov 20, 2014 | Then & Now | 10 |

Historic photograph courtesy of the Indiana Album: loaned by Evan Finch. / Modern photograph...

Indianapolis Then and Now: Columbus Day Parade on Massachusetts Avenue

by Joan Hostetler | Oct 9, 2014 | Then & Now | 2 |

Cabinet card looking south on Alabama Street, October 21, 1892. The house-like float is on...

Indianapolis Then and Now: Hammond Block, 301-75 Massachusetts Avenue

by Joan Hostetler | Dec 5, 2013 | Then & Now | 1 |

The Urban Dictionary defines a time suck as “Something that’s engrossing and...

Indianapolis Then and Now: The Circus comes to the 200 Block of Massachusetts Ave.

by Joan Hostetler | Nov 28, 2013 | Then & Now | 2 |

ca. 1911, Frank M. Hohenberger Collection, Indiana University This charming photograph of the...

Friday Favorite: Decorative Iron

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Apr 19, 2013 | Friday Favorites | 1 |

One of the things I miss most when encountering brand new commercial buildings is the lack of...

Sunday Ads: The Mass Ave Hotel that Was

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Jan 6, 2013 | Sunday Ads | 1 |

There was talk of a boutique hotel joining the Massachusetts Avenue scene where the Fire...

Flats Lost & Saved: Mass Ave & Vermont Street

by Jordan Ryan | Dec 29, 2012 | Vintage Flats | 4 |

The Sanborn map above is of the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Vermont Street, and Alabama...

Then & Now: Millikan Flats / Barton Tower / Millikan on Mass, 500 Block of Massachusetts Avenue

by Joan Hostetler | Dec 6, 2012 | Then & Now | 7 |

Opinions abound over the development of “Millikan on Mass,” apartments now under...

Then & Now: 300 Block of Massachusetts Avenue

by Joan Hostetler | Aug 23, 2012 | Then & Now | 11 |

Courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society, NHPRC Cirkut Negative Preservation Collection Staff at...

Building Language: Window Hoods

by Raina Regan | Jan 31, 2012 | Building Language | 0 |

Window Hood on 1336 North Delaware Street Hood. You might see hoods every day, but not realize the...

Building Language: Battlement

by Raina Regan | Jan 17, 2012 | Building Language | 0 |

Battlement on 725 Massachusetts Avenue Battlement. Although you might associate this term with...

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...

Building Language: Corbelling

by Raina Regan | Oct 4, 2011 | Building Language | 0 |

Corbelling found on 431/433 Massachusetts Avenue Corbelling. Corbelling derives from the use of a...

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Indianapolis Then and Now: Intersection of St. Cla...

Grasshopper Jails & Other “Monkey Business”

Penny Post: Mass Ave at Night

Then & Now: Criswell Mercantile Company/MacNiven’s Restaurant & Bar, 337-339 Massachusetts Avenue

Indianapolis Then and Now: Columbus Day Parade on Massachusetts Avenue

Indianapolis Then and Now: Hammond Block, 301-75 Massachusetts Avenue

Indianapolis Then and Now: The Circus comes to the 200 Block of Massachusetts Ave.

Friday Favorite: Decorative Iron

Flats Lost & Saved: Mass Ave & Vermont Street

Then & Now: Millikan Flats / Barton Tower / Millikan on Mass, 500 Block of Massachusetts Avenue

Then & Now: 300 Block of Massachusetts Avenue

Building Language: Window Hoods

Building Language: Battlement

Then and Now: The Little Depot and the Interstate

Building Language: Corbelling

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