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In 1970, the governments of Indianapolis and Marion County consolidated, expanding the city from 82 square miles (210 km 2) [3] to more than 360 square miles (930 km 2) overnight. As a result, Indianapolis has a unique urban-to-rural transect, ranging from dense urban neighborhoods, to suburban tract housing subdivisions, to rural villages. [4]
St. Joseph Neighborhood Historic District is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. The district encompasses 57 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Indianapolis. It was developed between about 1855 and 1930, and include representative examples of Italianate and Queen Anne style architecture.
Herron–Morton Place Historic District is known for its collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century residential architecture. Many north–south streets in Herron—Morton (including Delaware, Alabama, and New Jersey streets) originally featured large esplanades down the center, adding to the spacious feeling of the lots and large homes.
In 1991 Indianapolis Police Department statistics recorded 2 murders, 13 rapes, 47 robberies, 99 aggravated assault and 110 burglaries. [6] Since 1992, Haughville has been a member of Indianapolis's Weed and Seed initiative, a federal program that targets high crime areas in Indianapolis and attempts to lower the amount of crime. It was the ...
Washington Street–Monument Circle Historic District is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, covering the first two blocks of East and West Washington and Market streets, the south side of the 100 block of East Ohio Street, Monument Circle, the first block of North and South Meridian Street, the first two blocks of North Pennsylvania Street, the west ...
The Government of Indianapolis—officially the Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County—is a strong-mayor form of mayor-council government system. [2] Local government is headquartered downtown at the City-County Building. [3] Since 1970, Indianapolis and Marion County have operated as a consolidated city-county government called ...
Forest Hills Historic District is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It encompasses 173 contributing buildings and 7 contributing structures in a planned residential section of Indianapolis. It developed between about 1911 and 1935, and includes representative examples of Tudor Revival and English Cottage style ...
The western border of the district is East Street, so named as it was the original eastern boundary of Indianapolis. [5] The neighborhood is directly south of the Mass Ave Cultural District and north of the Cole-Noble District. At only 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km) away from Monument Circle, Lockerbie Square was one of Indianapolis' earliest walkable ...