Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: Warfleigh

Reader’s Question:  I have lived on the south side of Indianapolis my entire life, so I am not very well-acquainted with other parts of the city.  Recently, I had an appointment on the north side and was driving...

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Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: Rhodius Park Area

Reader’s Question:  A friend of mine has asked me about the history of the Rhodius Park area, since she has just moved into a house across from the park. I tried searching the HI website,...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Day Indy Got Her Wings

Before the advent of planes, trains and automobiles, the fastest route from point A to point B was usually by water.  So when a new state capital was selected in 1820, the fact that Congress...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Healin’ Hurty

John N. Hurty (1852-1925) Purdue University photo. (C)lean and Mean… John Hurty began his career in Indianapolis at a time when cows and pigs roamed the city streets at will. So much livestock lived among the human citizenry...

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Posted in: Penny Post Penny Post: In the Good Old Winter Time

In the Good Old Winter Time at Riverside, Indianapolis, Indiana Image courtesy of Tom Keesling, Hoosier Recollections. January 2014 will go on record as one of the coldest months in Indianapolis’ history. Pipes burst, the...

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Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: Ravenswood

Reader’s Question: I have a lot of family history in Indiana, but in Indianapolis the only area I know my family has been in for a while is Ravenswood.  Any chance you have some history on...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Cold Springs Murders

Tombstone of Jacob Young, behind the Indianapolis Church of Christ on 6001 W. 52 St. This week is the third and final of a three week visit to the intersection of Cold Spring and Lafayette...

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Posted in: A Room with a View A Room with a View – Camp Robinson and Lew Wallace

Monument in the woods of Riverside Park, north of Municipal Gardens. Just up the bike path from the Municipal Gardens, along the White River is a peculiar boulder that can just barely be spotted from...

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Posted in: A Room with a View A Room with a View – Municipal Gardens Park

This week’s A Room with a View is really more of an Area with a View, in two parts. After scoping out the Lohrmann House at 16th and White River that Sharon Butsch Freeland highlighted in...

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Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: The Lohrmann Residence

Reader’s Question:  There is a fairly large structure, presumably a home, on the west bank of the White River at 16th Street that appears to be boarded up or abandoned.  It looks fairly impressive (what...

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Posted in: A Room with a View Room With A View – Robert Indiana’s ‘Numbers’ – Indianapolis Museum of Art

Robert Indiana’s “Numbers” at the IMA Today’s view: overlooking the White River, “Numbers” (1980-82) by New Castle, Indiana’s own Robert Indiana from within the Indianapolis Museum of Art....

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Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: The Arden Neighborhood

Reader’s Question:  I would love to know the history of the Arden neighborhood and the clarification that there was a popular beach along White River.  ~ Ginger Lee Williams, Arden resident HI’s Answer: The Arden...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Bridges of Marion County

My husband and I recently celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary by driving around Indianapolis and photographing old bridges. It was a little like The Bridges of Madison County, except that I was the Clint Eastwood...

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