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Indianapolis YMCA builds a new facility on North Illinois Street; a new building was constructed at the same location in 1887. [85] [221] The Water Works Company of Indianapolis, chartered in 1869 and acquired by Indianapolis Water Company in 1881, delivers the first water supplied from a central waterworks to city residents. [232] 1872
Indianapolis's first two justices of the peace were appointed in 1821, and its first jail was built in 1822. The city council established Indianapolis's first police department in 1854. The Indianapolis Fire Company, organized in 1826, was the town's first volunteer fire department. Indianapolis's first firehouse was built in 1836.
Roughly bound by Westfield Boulevard on the north, the east side of New Jersey Street on the east, 46th Street on the south, and the west side of Pennsylvania Street on the west 39°50′48″N 86°09′26″W / 39.8466°N 86.1571°W / 39.8466; -86.1571 ( North Pennsylvania Street Historic
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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]
John Hall Rankin and Thomas Kellogg, noted Philadelphia architects, secured the design contract, and the Treasury Department accepted the New York-based John Pierce Company's low construction bid of $1,300,000. [2] (The final cost, however, reached nearly $2,000,000.) Begun in 1902 and completed in 1905, the new federal building was massive.
Nestled between a Serbian Church and a subdivision with new homes selling for $500,000 or more, the old farm is a reminder of a time when the city had large stretches of rolling hills.
Indianapolis: The Story of a City. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Madison, James H. (2014). Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and the Indiana Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01308-8. Madison, James H.; Lee Ann Sandweiss (2014). Hoosiers and the ...