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Hotel Washington, also known as the Washington Tower, is a historic hotel building located at Indianapolis, Indiana.It was built in 1912, and is a 17-story, rectangular, Beaux-Arts style steel frame and masonry building.
Roughly bounded by Fourth, Hefron and Meridian Sts. and the Chessie System RR, Washington, Indiana Coordinates 38°39′27″N 87°10′22″W / 38.65750°N 87.17278°W / 38.65750; -87
Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. [1] The Caribbean Motel in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey [2]. Historic Hotels of America is a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation that was founded in 1989 with 32 charter members; the program identifies hotels in the United States that have maintained authenticity, sense of place, and architectural integrity from their respective time periods.
Luray was laid out and platted in 1836. [3] The community was named after Luray, Virginia since a large share of the early settlers were natives of that state. [3] A post office was established at Luray in 1838, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1901.
Paoli Peaks is an alpine ski resort located in Paoli Township, Orange County, near Paoli, Indiana. Paoli Peaks is for skiers, snowboarders, snowbladers, and tubers (with the addition of their tubing hill in the 2006-2007 season). Paoli Peaks is built on a natural hill at a 900 ft (270 m). elevation with a vertical drop of 300 ft (91 m).
United States historic place Downtown LaPorte Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Laporte County Courthouse, Spring 2007 Show map of Indiana Show map of the United States Location Roughly bounded by State, Jackson, Maple and Chicago Sts., LaPorte, Indiana Coordinates 41°36′41″N 86°43′20″W / 41.61139°N 86.72222°W / 41.61139 ...
Located approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Washington in Daviess County, it lies along the southern bank of the westward-flowing Prairie Creek, a White River tributary. About 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of the site, the stream leaves the Thousand Acre Woods, a heavily wooded area around a glacial lake ; six miles downstream is the creek's ...
In the last decades of the 19th century, the area was a resort with a forty-room inn. In the 1930s a man named Joseph Frisz acquired the land in order to protect it and purchased more land around. His heirs sold the land in 1947 to the holding company "Save the Shades", who in turn gave the land to the state to create Indiana's 15th state park.