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: Penny Post Penny Post: The Old Marion County Courthouse

When Charles Bookwalter began his second term as Mayor of Indianapolis in 1906, he made it a priority to build Indianapolis a City Hall. For the previous 30 years, the second Marion County Courthouse was...

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Posted in: Vintage Flats Flats Lost: Falling Through the Cracks

How do historic properties, listed on multiple National Registers, become abandoned neighborhood eyesores? Lawsuits were filed against the owners of two such buildings, the Chadwick and the Lodge apartments two years ago. While National Register...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Preservation Denied: The William H. Block Mansion

Welcome to Preservation Month 2011! This May, each day we will feature favorite structures of Indianapolis where the opportunity to preserve was denied or affirmed. Gone, but not forgotten, or thankfully still here, we will...

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