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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.
The Indianapolis Union Railway Company (reporting mark IU), is a terminal railroad operating in Indianapolis, Indiana.It was organized on May 31, 1850, as the Union Track Railway Company by the presidents of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad (M&I), the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad (TH&R), and the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad (I&B) for the purposes of establishing and ...
On May 31, 1850, the I&B co-founded the Union Track Railway Company with the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad and the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad. [11] The Union Track changed its name to the Indianapolis Union Railway (IUR) in 1853. [12] The IUR opened the world's first union station in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 20, 1853.
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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.
[7] [8] Indianapolis pioneered the union station concept, first conceived in 1848. In 1849, the city's competing railroad companies cooperated to form the Indianapolis Union Railway Company to oversee operations of the world's first union depot, completed on September 20, 1853. [9] Electric streetcars on Illinois Street in 1896
Indianapolis's first cemetery was established near the White River in 1821, the adjacent Union Cemetery in 1834, and Greenlawn Cemetery was added west of Union Cemetery in 1860. [34] A Hebrew cemetery was established 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the city's center in 1856, and land for a Catholic cemetery was acquired south of the city in 1860.
Indianapolis's first Union Depot, the first of its kind in the United States to serve competing railroad lines, opens on September 28. [143] [144] It is demolished in 1887 to make space for the Indianapolis Union Station, a new passenger depot that is completed in 1888. [145] Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad in operation. [citation needed]