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The International Circus Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame which honors important figures in circus history. It is located in Peru, Indiana, on the former grounds of the Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters, also known as the Peru Circus Farm and Valley Farms.
Peru was the winter headquarters for several famous circuses, including Hagenbeck–Wallace, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and others. [12] The International Circus Hall of Fame is located in Peru. Annually during the third week of July, the Peru Amateur Circus [13] holds performances for the whole week, ending with the Circus City Festival ...
Peru: 15: Shirk-Edwards House: Shirk-Edwards House: September 14, 1995 : 50 N. Hood St. Peru: 16: Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters: Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters: February 27, 1987
Terrell Jacobs Circus Winter Quarters, also known as Pipe Creek Wild Animal Farm and Circus Winter Headquarters, was a historic circus complex and national historic district located at Pipe Creek Township, Miami County, Indiana. The district encompassed five contributing buildings, three contributing sites, three contributing structures, and ...
The Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus was the inspiration for the novel The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day. The book is about the fictional "Great Porter Circus", which made its winter home in "Lima, Indiana", which stood in for the author's home town of Peru, Indiana. The author is the great-niece of an elephant trainer of the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus.
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Weaver's work was the subject of a one-man exhibition at the Indiana State Museum entitled Circus Heritage In Indiana. [26] Weaver had decided to apply for a sabbatical from Herron to work on the exhibition which produced new work to illustrating the roots of circuses in Indiana. The exhibit ran from September 25, 1977 through January 15, 1978.
The Indiana World War Memorial, begun in 1926 and finished in 1965, is a building commemorating World War I and II veterans. It is 210 feet (64 m) tall, made of Indiana limestone, and based on the Mausoleum of Mausolus. Within it is a military museum.