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Indianapolis's Union Station almost suffered that fate. By the late 1970s, vagrants and vandals had taken over much of the facility and numerous police and fire runs were made to the cavernous building. Local business and political leaders began looking for some way to preserve Union Station and transform it into a vital part of the city again.
Location of Center Township in Marion County. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Center Township, Marion County, Indiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Center Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States.
The Wholesale District is one of seven designated cultural districts in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.Located in the south-central quadrant of downtown Indianapolis' Mile Square, [2] the district contains the greatest concentration of 19th-century commercial buildings in the city, including Indianapolis Union Station and the Majestic Building.
Indiana History Center, 450 W. Ohio St. $5-$13 in advance. Free for members and kids under 5. ... Union Station, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and more. Artists ...
Willard and Josephine Hubbard House is a historic home located at Indianapolis, Indiana.It was built in 1903, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay, center-hall plan, Italian Renaissance Revival style limestone dwelling with an addition.
Indianapolis Union Station opened in 1853 as the world's first union station. [46] Citizen's Street and Railway Company was established in 1864, operating the city's first mule-drawn streetcar line. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] Opened in 1904 on Market Street, the Indianapolis Traction Terminal was the largest interurban station in the world, handling 500 ...
Nickum had the money to build the house as he had supplied the Union Army in Indianapolis with hardtack, a form of cracker despised by soldiers, during the Civil War. Nickum's daughter, Magdalena, and her husband Charles Holstein, a lawyer, would possess it when, in 1893, they invited noted poet James Whitcomb Riley to live with them.
The monument is built at the center of Monument Circle, a circular, brick-paved street that intersects Meridian and Market streets at the center of downtown Indianapolis. The neoclassical-style obelisk is built of oolitic limestone from the Romona Stone Company quarries in Owen County, Indiana. It rests on a raised foundation measuring 30 feet ...