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Because Indianapolis is coextensive with Marion County, properties are listed by township rather than by city or town. Center Township is the location of 189 of these properties and districts, including 6 of the National Historic Landmarks; these properties and districts are listed separately .
Allison Mansion, also known as Riverdale, is a historic home located on the campus of Marian University at Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.It was built between 1911 and 1914, and is a large two-story, Arts and Crafts style red brick mansion with a red tile roof.
In 1910, the population was about 100, increasing to nearly 500 by 1920. The City of Indianapolis annexed the town in 1923. According to the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, homes in the neighborhood were built in a "variety of architectural styles reflecting middle-class tastes from the early 1900s to the 1950s". The neighborhood was largely ...
Golden Hill is an affluent and historic neighborhood overlooking the White River on the west side of Indianapolis's Center Township, in Marion County, Indiana.The district is bounded on the east by Clifton Street, which is west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (formerly Northwestern Avenue); on the west by the White River and the Central Canal; on the south by Thirty-sixth Street; and on ...
Oldfields, also known as Lilly House and Gardens, is a 26-acre (11 ha) historic estate and house museum at Newfields in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.The estate, an example of the American country house movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2003.
It encompasses 169 contributing buildings in a high style residential section of Indianapolis. The district developed between about 1900 and 1936, and includes representative examples of Tudor Revival , Colonial Revival , and Classical Revival style architecture.
[7] [8] Between 1890 and 1900, the city's land area had more than doubled from 12.4 square miles (32 km 2) to 27.21 square miles (70.5 km 2). [ 3 ] The expansion of the city's streetcar and interurban systems at the turn of the 20th century allowed workers to live further from the economic center of Indianapolis, establishing streetcar suburbs ...
Ladywood Estates is a historic district in Indianapolis, Indiana. Built in 1967, it consists of 14 contributing multi-family residential buildings, 16 contributing garage buildings, and one contributing object. [2] Originally planned as apartments, the residential buildings vary in size and number of units.