Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: 1215 Kessler Boulevard East Drive

Reader’s question: There is a large white frame house on Kessler Boulevard, a couple of blocks east of the Monon Trail, that I have admired for years.  It appears to be much older than the homes...

Read More 60 Comments

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

Is that a government building or a gas station? Cartoonists of the 1920s often made light of the fact that service and filling stations were so ornate that they were confused with buildings with a...

Read More 1 Comments

Posted in: Historic Miscellania Indiana City Brewery (Home Brewing Company Bottling Building)

In case you missed it the first time we published it… Early last year, our own Joan Hostetler featured the Home Brewing Company for a February 2013  “Indianapolis: Then and Now” feature. Today in A Room with a...

Read More 1 Comments

Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then & Now: 10th & Delaware

With deepest thanks to Jeff Congdon for the generous donation of a scanner. Without the immense contributions of the Jewish community throughout Indianapolis history, the city would not have become the place we currently know,...

Read More 18 Comments

Posted in: Historic Miscellania Indy Indie Artist Colony, the Former St. Regis

The Indy Indie Artist Colony and former St. Regis Apartment building at the Corner of Pennsylvania and 14th Streets – Photo: Ryan Hamlett It seems that everywhere you look, there are new, high-end condos and...

Read More 3 Comments

Posted in: Historic Miscellania The Lyric Theater

Just as the popularity of Netflix and Redboxes have yielded thousands of vacant storefronts across the county once occupied by Blockbuster Video stores, television’s popularity led to the near extinction of the double purpose stage/movie...

Read More 11 Comments

Posted in: Historic Miscellania Indiana City Brewery (Home Brewing Company Bottling Building)

Three original Home Brewing Company bottles in the Indiana City Brewery tasting room. – Photo by Ryan Hamlett Earlier this year, our own Joan Hostetler featured the Home Brewing Company for a Feburary “Indianapolis: Then and Now”...

Read More

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...

Read More 2 Comments

Posted in: Historic Miscellania Deep rooted history in Mapleton-Fall Creek

Usually, I gravitate towards the neighborhoods nearest to the Mile Square–the older, the better for this gal; and I assumed all of the longest inhabited areas in the city are only centered around that original...

Read More 15 Comments