Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Saving Old Housing Stock

2515 North Broadway For those of us who are both sentimental and care for the aesthetics of Indianapolis, we’d be hard-pressed to consider buying anything but an older home. Older homes get a bad rap—deemed ‘hard to...

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Posted in: Bicycles, Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Recycling History For Now

It’s refreshing to see that some of the new projects in town pay homage to the city’s oldest development history. Indy has a nice trend going on–honoring pieces of our past. Ralston’s Draft House opened...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Plaza Service Station 121 E. Maryland Street

These 1925 photographs show one of Vonnegut, Mueller, & Bohn’s less-remembered architectural designs: the Plaza Service Station at 121 E. Maryland Street. During the 1920s people grew leery of shoddy gasoline shacks and movers of...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Favorite Fridays: Wishard Estate

For those of us who are overly sentimental and who also happen to live in historic homes, it seems a common practice–maybe even a point of pride–to refer to the home not with the surname...

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