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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 ...
Bank of Pennsylvania building designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe.Engraving by William Birch. Civil War memorial Adrian Michigan. In 1793, the Bank of Pennsylvania was established with a charter from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and branches were opened in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading, and Easton. [2]
4000-5694 and 4001-5747 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Indiana Coordinates 39°50′33″N 86°09′26″W / 39.84250°N 86.15722°W / 39.84250; -86
The National Bank Act that the U.S. Congress passed during the Civil War ended the need for a state banking system, and the Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis came into existence. [3] In 1895, the bank's building on the south side of Washington Street just east of Meridian Street was destroyed in a fire. The bank's vault fell from the first ...
BMO Plaza, formerly the M&I Plaza, [6] is a high-rise office building located at 135 North Pennsylvania Street in Indianapolis, Indiana.It was completed in 1988 and is currently the sixth-tallest building in the city, at 401 ft (122 m) with 31 stories. [1]
The W. T. Grant fire was a major conflagration in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.It began in the early afternoon hours of November 5, 1973. It was one of the most extensive and costliest commercial fires in the city's history, totaling at around $15 million (1973) worth of damages, and affected 15 buildings and 84 individual businesses with the resulting fire or water damage.
Merchants National Bank (Kittanning, Pennsylvania), now known as Farmers & Merchants Bank of Western Pennsylvania; Merchants National Bank and Annex in Indianapolis, Indiana, known as the Barnes and Thornburg Building; Merchants National Bank and Trust Company of Indianapolis; Merchants' National Bank Building (1895), Baltimore in Maryland
Indianapolis's first two justices of the peace were appointed in 1821, and its first jail was built in 1822. The city council established Indianapolis's first police department in 1854. The Indianapolis Fire Company, organized in 1826, was the town's first volunteer fire department. Indianapolis's first firehouse was built in 1836.