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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]
The railroad's assets were wholly leased to the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company starting in 1903, and the two companies would eventually merge under the Indianapolis Street Railway Company name in 1919. [9] [10] [11] The new company was acquired by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company in 1920.
The Block's store was located on Market Street across from the Indianapolis Traction Terminal (the largest traction terminal in the United States). From 1900 to the 1930s, the Indiana interurban system brought shoppers by the thousands from smaller central Indiana towns to shop in downtown Indianapolis. The availability of cheap mass transit to ...
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.
Aerial of Downtown Indianapolis in 2016. When Indianapolis was founded in 1820, the new capital city was planned to occupy an area of one square mile (2.6 km 2) adjacent to the White River and near the geographic center of Marion County.
The city's three skyscrapers and a majority of its high-rises are located in downtown Indianapolis. The tallest building in the city is the 49- story Salesforce Tower , which rises 701 feet (214 m), excluding antenna masts, and was completed in 1990. [ 1 ]
The Apartments and Flats of Downtown Indianapolis Thematic Resources is a multiple property submission of apartments on the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The area is roughly bounded by Interstate 65 and Fall Creek on the north, Interstate 65 and Interstate 70 on the east, Interstate 70 on the south, and ...
A monument to US 40 stands in the median of Washington Street in downtown Indianapolis. Indianapolis is served by six U.S. Highways, five of which share a concurrency with I-465, and four Indiana State Roads. Starting in 1967, INDOT began rerouting U.S. Highways and Indiana State Roads to the I-465 beltway to bypass local traffic.