Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mortuary and crematorium – Groundbreaking for a $1.5 million mortuary took place in May 1992. Architect J. Stuart Todd drew up the plans. The funeral home opened on March 1, 1993. Gibralter Remembrance Services, LLC, who purchased the mortuary in 2006, built a 9,500 square foot expansion. A new crematorium was added in 1990. [60]
Indianapolis Fire Headquarters and Municipal Garage is a historic fire station and garage located at Indianapolis, Indiana. The Fire Headquarters was built in 1913 for the Indianapolis Fire Department , and is a three-story, Classical Revival style orange-brown glazed brick building with limestone detailing.
Old Northside was also the original location of Indianapolis' Butler University, then named North Western Christian University, which was later relocated to the town of Irvington. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The neighborhood began a slow decline in the early 1910s as architectural tastes changed and families built homes further north in Indianapolis.
Old Indianapolis City Hall, formerly known as the Indiana State Museum, is a historic city hall located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was built in 1909–1910, and is a four-story, Classical Revival style brick building sheathed in Indiana limestone. It measures 188 by 133 feet (57 by 41 m). [2]: 2–4
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.
In 1867, the ceiling in the chambers of the Indiana House of Representative collapsed. In addition, the growth of the state government meant that the statehouse was too small. An article in the Indianapolis News on January 30, 1877, summed up the problems, noting that it "is too small if it were good, and it is too bad if it were big enough". A ...
Indiana's state government relocates to Indianapolis from Corydon, Indiana, effective January 1. [40] A U.S. District Court is established in the city; Benjamin Parke is its presiding judge. [43] Indiana State Library is established. [44] Indianapolis Journal newspaper begins publication. [15] The first Marion County courthouse is completed in ...
The second Indiana Governor's Residence, built on the Circle in 1827.. The original plan of Indianapolis, founded in 1821, and platted by Alexander Ralston, included a circular, 80-foot (24 m) wide street that surrounded a circular, 3-acre (1.2 ha) plot of land as the focal point at the center of town.