MARCH/APRIL 2020 Unsinkable! Naval Armory’s New Commission as Riverside High School Wins Cook Cup INDUSTRIAL EXTRAORDINARY HERITAGE WOMEN South Bend hosts Looking at landmarks statewide conference of trailblazers FROM THE PRESIDENT STARTERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Olon F. Dotson Muncie Hon. Randall T. Shepard Honorary Chairman Jeremy D. Efroymson Indianapolis Marking Parker Beauchamp Chairman Melissa Glaze Roanoke Telling Our Story James P. Fadely, Ph.D. Milestones Past Chairman Tracy Haddad Columbus SIXTY YEARS AGO, A GROUP of Indiana business leaders gath- Sara Edgerton 2020 MARKS A CENTURY Vice Chairman David A. Haist Culver since the adoption of the ered to incorporate a new organization dedicated to preserving Marsh Davis President Bob Jones 19th Amendment to the ANNE EVANS © CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER Evansville historic places for future generations. Anniversaries marking Doris Anne Sadler U.S. Constitution granted Secretary/Assistant Treasurer Christine H. Keck decades often provide reason to reflect and celebrate. Such is the Evansville women the right to vote. To Thomas H. Engle Assistant Secretary Matthew R. Mayol, AIA recognize the milestone, The purpose of a new book: Indiana Landmarks Rescued & Restored. Indianapolis Brett D. McKamey National Collaborative for Windy City Wonders This project was inspired and driven by the indominable Treasurer Ray Ontko Richmond Judy A. O’Bannon Women’s History Sites cre- AT INDIANA LANDMARKS’ Sallie Rowland, a great preservation champion and civic leader Secretary Emerita Martin E. Rahe ated the National Votes for Cincinnati, OH Rescue Party on April 25, who serves on Indiana Landmarks’ board of directors. Sallie, a DIRECTORS James W. Renne Women Trail, a database of we’ll auction one-of-a-kind keen observer of the positive impact of historic preservation, Hilary Barnes Newburgh over 1,000 sites that help tell experiences around Indiana Indianapolis George A. Rogge the story of suffrage for all and beyond, including a encouraged us to tell the story of Indiana Landmarks through The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Gary Baskerville-Burrows Sallie W. Rowland women. One project includes private tour for two of a book featuring some of the places we had a meaningful role in Indianapolis Indianapolis an interactive map highlight- Chicago landmarks with Candace Chapman Peter J. Sacopulos Mark Stoner, a preservation saving. And nothing tells that story better than “before and after” Evansville Terre Haute ing places where noteworthy architecture specialist from photographs, aided by a lively text. Edward D. Clere Robert L. Santa New Albany Bloomington RATIO’s office in the Windy The 56 places depicted in Rescued & Restored represent Mike Corbett Charlitta Winston City. The getaway includes Noblesville Indianapolis GEORGE ROGGE the three points of Indiana Landmarks’ mission: Revitalize, Ellen Swisher Crabb John D. Zeglis a stay at a private condo Indianapolis Reconnect, Save. They also attest to the challenges we face and Culver in the heart of the city Cheri Dick Beau F. Zoeller and cocktails with Indiana Zionsville Indianapolis partnerships we enjoy in fulfilling the intent of our founders. Landmarks President Marsh Davis at Cliff Dwellers, a private Indiana Landmarks Rescued & Restored will be available for OFFICES & HISTORIC SITES gathering spot for Chicago artists and intellectuals including Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, Gertrude Kerbis, Carl Sandburg, purchase starting May 1. But you can be among the very first to Headquarters Southeast Field Office Indiana Landmarks Center Aurora and Roger Ebert. Don’t miss your chance to bid! Get tickets to obtain a copy of the book when it is unveiled at Rescue Party on 1201 Central Avenue (812) 926-0983 the party at indianalandmarks.org/rescue-party-tiki-time. Indianapolis, IN 46202 Southwest Field Office April 25. I encourage all to attend Rescue Party—not only to buy [email protected] Evansville (317) 639-4534 (812) 423-2988 our hot-off-the-press book (or several)—but because it supports (800) 450-4534 Western Regional Office Northwest Field Office Terre Haute events happened in each our core mission of saving and revitalizing historic places. It’s Gary (812) 232-4534 years of revitalizing (219) 947-2657 state. In Indiana, the trail also a blast. Huddleston Farmhouse communities, recon- Central Regional Office Cambridge City includes historical markers Indianapolis Please join us. (765) 478-3172 necting people to their (317) 639-4534 and still-standing landmarks Morris-Butler House heritage, and saving Eastern Regional Office Indianapolis such as the Lafayette home Cambridge City (317) 639-4534 meaningful places since (765) 478-3172 of Helen Gougar (above). A Veraestau Indiana Landmarks’ Northern Regional Office Aurora lawyer and women’s rights South Bend founding in 1960. You (812) 926-0983 (574) 232-4534 advocate, Gougar filed suit French Lick and West can learn more about Marsh Davis, President Northeast Field Office Baden Springs tours against the county elec- Wabash the places we’ve helped (866) 571-8687 (toll free) tions board after being (800) 450-4534 (812) 936-5870 along the way in our Southern Regional Office denied the right to vote in soon-to-be-released cof- New Albany (812) 284-4534 1894, eventually arguing fee table book Indiana For its top-to-bottom conversion of Indianapolis’s 1938 Naval her case before the Indiana Landmarks Rescued & Armory into Riverside High School, Indianapolis Classical Schools On the ©2020, Indiana Landmarks; ISSN#: 0737-8602 Supreme Court. Learn more Restored. Learn more earned Indiana Landmarks’ 2020 Cook Cup for Outstanding Cover Indiana Landmarks publishes Indiana Preservation bimonthly about the trail at ncwhs.org/ Restoration (see p. 6). PHOTO BY EVAN HALE for members. To join and learn other membership benefits, about how you can get visit indianalandmarks.org or contact memberships@ votes-for-women-trail. your copy on p. 17. indianalandmarks.org, 317-639-4534 or 800-450-4534. To offer suggestions forIndiana Preservation, contact editor@ indianalandmarks.org. 2 INDIANA PRESERVATION indianalandmarks.org 3 STATEWIDE CONFERENCE Cab Calloway, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. After declining attendance forced the Palace to close in 1955, local philanthropist Ella M. Morris bought the theater and sold it back to the city for $1, which repaired and reopened the landmark as Morris Civic Auditorium. Restored a second time in the late 1990s, the expanded and refreshed theater reopened as the Morris Performing Arts Center, incorporating the neighboring Palais Royale building and ballroom, which hosts the conference dinner. The conference now houses the Civil Rights Heritage Center. The stroll ends Today, South Bend and St. Joseph kicks off on April with hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar at Tippecanoe Place, Clem 14 with a recep- County count nine local historic tion at The Lauber Studebaker’s grand home turned restaurant, where attendees districts and approximately 200 local Kitchen & Bar, can explore nearly all 24,000 square feet of the Romanesque landmarks, as well as several National a manufactur- Revival-style mansion. LaSalle Avenue in 1900 and expand- Register-listed historic districts. ing facility turned Just outside the city, the conference closes on April 17 at gastro pub (top). South Bend Showcases the ing into a multi-building complex Along West Washington Street, a The 1920s ball- the University of Notre Dame with an architectural tour of before the business closed in 2015. local and National Register district, room of the Palais the National Register-listed campus, followed by a plenary Power of Preservation Developer Frank Perri saw the site’s grand homes of early industrialists Royale building talk in the 1963 Carey Auditorium in the Hesburgh Library potential, spearheading its redevelop- Studebaker and Oliver still stand, (below left) hosts by Paul Edmondson, president of the National Trust for dinner on April 15. NAMED FOR ITS LOCATION ALONG THE Located on the St. ment to reinvent the space as a gastro repurposed as a restaurant and local Attendees can tour Historic Preservation. southernmost bend in the St. Joseph River in northern Joseph River, South pub and liquor store. Taking cues history museum. A walking tour for the University of The Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Bend’s long track Indiana, the city of South Bend rose as an industrial and from its industrial past, The Lauber conference attendees on April 16 Notre Dame’s archi- Archaeology, Indiana Landmarks, and Indiana University stage record of adaptively tecture, including manufacturing center in the late nineteenth and early twenti- repurposing historic Kitchen & Bar utilizes work tables, offers a peek at these landmarks, as the 1963 Hesburgh the annual Preserving Historic Places Conference, with support eth centuries. Though much of the early industry is gone, new buildings makes tools, and other artifacts from the well as Indiana Landmarks’ renova- Library (below from the National Park Service and the City of South Bend. enterprises occupy the historic factories, showrooms, and office it an ideal host sheet-metal company in its decor. tion-in-progress at the Queen Anne- right), which hosts Registration costs $175 per person, $100 per student and city for Preserving buildings. It’s an inspiring setting for exploring the future of Steel window frames hung from style Kizer House and the former the closing plenary. includes all education sessions, a reception, a luncheon, and Historic Places: PHOTOS BY JERRY PALIGA; preservation at Preserving Historic Places: Indiana’s Statewide Indiana’s Statewide the ceiling provide a visual divider Engman Public Natatorium, a once- BRANDON BARTOSZEK; two dinners. Register and get the full conference schedule at LEE LEWELLEN Preservation Conference on April 14-17, 2020. Preservation between the bar and family dining segregated swimming facility that indianalandmarks.org/preserving-historic-places-conference. City and community leaders took an early lead in the pres- Conference on April section. Garage doors open onto a 14-17. Education ervation movement by adaptively repurposing several historic sessions, field trips, patio and outdoor dining area.