Posted in: Vintage Flats Minturn Apartments, 22nd & Capitol

The city is replete with buildings like this–loaded with potential,  sad and forlorn–a fading shadow of a former, glorious, incarnation. The namesake of this building is from its first owner, Joseph Allen Minturn (6/20/1861- 4/3/1943),...

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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: Editorial Top 10 Reasons to Live Here- Part II

If you missed last night’s post, a.k.a. the first 5 of the top 10 reasons to live within King Park Area, check out the previous post. And probably should have mentioned that these 10 are...

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Posted in: Editorial Top 10 Reasons To Live Here- Part I

“And may I leave my corner of the world better than I found it.” Anonymous Leaving a corner of the world better, (or a defined geography of many blocks, in this case) is what a Community Development Corporation...

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