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The Varsity is a historic apartment building located at West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was built in 1928, and is a three-story, L-shaped, Tudor Revival style brick building. It has a limestone quoins and detailing, a Tudor-arched entrance, projecting pavilions, and semi-hexagonal projecting bays. [2]: 5–6
West Lafayette (/ ˌ l ɑː f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/ LA(H)F-ee-ET) is a city in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, [2] approximately 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the state capital of Indianapolis and 113 miles (182 km) southeast of Chicago. West Lafayette is directly across the Wabash River from its sister city, Lafayette.
By November 1951 when the Eisner Grocery Company were rebranding their Piggly Wiggly stores as Eisner Food Stores, [3] the company had two stores in Lafayette. [38] A new Eisner-Osco Family Center was opened in West Lafayette in September 1970 to join the existing three Eisner stores in the greater Lafayette area. [6]
West Lafayette Community School Corporation is a top rated, public school district located in West Lafayette, Indiana. It has 2,316 students in grades K-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 16 to 1. According to state test scores, 72% of students are at least proficient in math and 72% in reading.
West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School was constructed in 1939 of cream brick and glass at a cost of $225,000, and was remodeled in the late 1990s. The school is located near Purdue University , and the children of many Purdue faculty and staff attend West Side.
WLFI-TV (channel 18) is a television station in Lafayette, Indiana, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Allen Media Broadcasting , the station maintains studios on Yeager Road in West Lafayette ; its transmitter is located on County Road 700 in rural northwestern Clinton County (southwest of Rossville ).
Wabash National was founded as a start-up in 1985 in Lafayette, Indiana and has been publicly traded since 1991. [4] [5] The company was co-founded in April 1985 by Jerry Ehrlich, formerly the president of Monon Corp., an Indiana-based trailer manufacturer.
West Lafayette Baptist Church (1898–1964), also known as Church of the Good Shepherd (1964–1976), was a historic Baptist church located at West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was built between 1898 and 1901, and was a two-story, cross shaped Gothic Revival style brick building.