Posted in: Vintage Flats Flats Saved: Heier’s Hotel

The Heier Hotel, located at 12-18 South New Jersey Street, is named after original owner Fred Heier. Heier had multiple business ventures, including Heier & Shea and Heier & Son. Heier & Shea, with partner...

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Posted in: Then & Now Then & Now: SW Corner New Jersey & Vermont (Recycled)

Then: Hyde School #1 was constructed by the school system in the 1860s and stood for many decades.  The camera faces west in this 1907 view of the playground. Buildings to the right face Vermont Street...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then & Now: Saint Mary’s School and Marian Center 311 N. New Jersey Street

You’ve seen this view if you’ve ever exited onto N. New Jersey Street from the Lockerbie Marsh grocery store (still stubbornly referred to by longtime downtowners as O’Malia’s or even a weird mash-up of O’Marsh...

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Posted in: Sunday Prayers Sunday Prayers: 2000 Block of New Jersey Street

I know, I know, I’m going to be accused of favoritism again, pulling from one of my favorite neighborhoods, Herron-Morton Place. *If you want to change that, please send your photo submissions to feedback (at)...

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Posted in: Sunday Prayers Sunday Prayers Answered: New Jersey Street, 2000 block

Thinking about the current issue we face with demolitions on the docket for Indianapolis got me thinking about other eras that did mass destruction to the city. We lost a LOT of amazing architecture between...

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Posted in: Sunday Prayers Sunday Prayers: 17th and New Jersey Streets, northeast corner

Prayers are sometimes answered…and Glory Hallelujah for that ! The northeast corner at 17th and New Jersey streets have long been home to a couple of the bigger eyesores of Herron-Morton Plac, but have recently...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ad: Morton Place Auto

From the 1913 Blue Book comes this advertisement for the Morton Place Automobile Company, located at 1835 N New Jersey. The same location had started life as the Morton Place Stables, and today is a...

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