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The museum is located on the site of Center School in the former Bloomington Public Library building. [3] The library building is now home to the Monroe County Historical Society, their collection of artifacts, and their Genealogy Library. [4] A historical marker is present at the site. [5] The History Center is located at 202 East 6th Street.
Located in the district are the separately listed Bloomington City Hall, Monroe County Courthouse, Princess Theatre, and Wicks Building. Other notable buildings include the Federal Building (c. 1912), Masonic Temple, former Faulkner Hotel (c. 1847), Odd Fellows Building (1892), Allen Building (1907), First National Bank Building (1907), Knights ...
The Survey and Registration Section of the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology oversees this state register. All places within Indiana that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places are automatically on Indiana's Register. Additional sites are on the state register, as the state's register does not require as ...
The Vinegar Hill Historic District is a historic district and neighborhood in Bloomington, Indiana, United States.Built primarily in the second quarter of the twentieth century, and located a few blocks south of Indiana University Bloomington campus, Vinegar Hill has been the home of leading Indiana University faculty members.
Bloomington West Side Historic District is a national historic district located at Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.The district encompasses 394 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in a mixed residential, commercial, and industrial section of Bloomington.
This list of museums in Indiana is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The history center bought the 52,000-square-foot building in 2015 and began fundraising and planning in 2017. Then the pandemic hit, delaying the project and increasing its cost.
Monroe County Public Library. The first library in Monroe County was established in 1820 in the courthouse. The Monroe Carnegie Library was dedicated in 1918. In 1965, the Bloomington Public Library merged with the Monroe County Public Library system. Library service continued in the Carnegie building until 1970 when the current building was ...