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The current German Church building is the site's third. [1] Completed in 1914 for $30,000, [3] the building is an example of the Tudor Gothic Revival style and featured stained glass windows described by the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission as "extraordinary."
The Athenæum, originally named Das Deutsche Haus (German: "The German House"), is the most ornate and best-preserved building affiliated with the German American community of Indianapolis. Once used as a German American Turnverein and clubhouse , it currently houses many groups, organizations, and businesses.
Indianapolis's Germans established several German-speaking congregations: Zion Church (1841), the city's first German Evangelical congregation; Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church (1844); First German Methodist Episcopal Church (1849); First German Reformed Church of Indianapolis (1852); and Saint Marienkirche (1856), the city's first ...
General German Protestant Orphans Home, also known as the Pleasant Run Children's Home , is a historic orphanage located in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was designed by architect Diedrich A. Bohlen (1827–1890) and built in 1871–1872. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick institutional building on a limestone block foundation. It has eclectic German ...
South Side Turnverein Hall is a historic social club and gymnasium in the Bates-Hendricks neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana, affiliated with the city's German-American community. lt was built in 1900 by prominent architects Vonnegut & Bohn, whose managing partners Bernard Vonnegut, Sr. and Arthur Bohn were members of the burgeoning German-American community in Indianapolis.
A fire tore through the 70-year-old Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the morning of August 7, causing $1 million in damages, according to the Indianapolis Fire ...
The Rathskeller features a dining room and kellerbar (basement bar) serving German cuisine including various schnitzels ($27.50 to $29.50) and wurst ($13 to $30) alongside several imported German ...
Bohlen also designed several notable buildings around Indianapolis, including the German-English Independent School (1860), where he also served as a school trustee; United Evangelical Zion Church (1866), later renamed Zion United Church of Christ; the General German Protestant Orphans' Home (1872), later known as Pleasant Run Children's Home ...