SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018

Mid-Century Landmarks to Love

THREE CHEERS Celebrating a trio of award winners RAMBLIN' Home tour on Greendale's Ridge Avenue FROM THE PRESIDENT STARTERS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS Gregory S. Fehribach Indianapolis Hon. Randall T. Shepard Honorary Chairman William R. Goins Rushville BEAUTIFUL James P. Fadely, Ph.D. Chairman Tracy Haddad Columbus Support from Blue and Red Carl A. Cook UTILITY Past Chairman David A. Haist Culver HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT national politics have become Parker Beauchamp We don’t build them like this Vice Chairman Judith A. Kanne anymore. The Indianapolis a little testy lately? The gulf between blue and red, urban and Rensselaer Marsh Davis Water Company constructed a rural, progressive and conservative widens by the day. But I President Christine H. Keck Evansville am happy to observe that historic preservation, in the realm of Sara Edgerton pumping station in 1900, and Secretary/Assistant Treasurer Matthew R. Mayol, AIA it’s one of Indiana’s most beau- public policy, has avoided the partisan trap. Indianapolis Thomas H. Engle tiful Beaux Arts-style land- Take last year when the federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC) Assistant Secretary Sharon Negele Attica nearly got extinguished in tax reform legislation. The loss of Brett D. McKamey marks. Still serving its original Treasurer Cheryl Griffith Nichols purpose, the Riverside Pumping this tool would have put the brakes on the tremendous prog- Little Rock, AR Judy A. O’Bannon Station reflects the power of ress communities have seen in revitalizing historic places Secretary Emerita Martin E. Rahe Cincinnati, OH EMILY ROYER across America. Instead, members of the House and Senate DIRECTORS James W. Renne Newburgh from both sides of the aisle worked together to save the HTC. Hilary Barnes Indianapolis George A. Rogge For the past year, I’ve been privileged to chair Preservation Gary Elaine E. Bedel Towering Achievement Action, a non-partisan organization that educates and mobi- Indianapolis Sallie W. Rowland Indianapolis lizes citizen advocates for preservation policy at the national Edward D. Clere ver since 1941, when its tower was removed for New Albany Doris Anne Sadler level. Preservation Action adheres to this principle: there is Indianapolis structural reasons, the 1875-76 Montgomery Cheri Dick no substitute for the role of grassroots constituents in shaping Zionsville Matthew G. Stegall County Courthouse in Crawfordsville suf- Richmond federal policy. Julie Donnell fered a “what’s wrong with this picture” look. Fort Wayne Brad Toothaker We have more work to do at the federal level. While the HTC South Bend In 1996, the Montgomery County Historical Society Jeremy D. Efroymson E was spared last year, changes to the program require legislative Indianapolis Charlitta Winston LEE LEWELLEN launched a campaign to re-create the tower, inde- Indianapolis corrections to ensure its continued practical use. Preserving fatigably led by Dr. James Kirtley until he died and federal funding for historic preservation—which is never a cer- OFFICES & HISTORIC SITES the City Beautiful movement Sandy Lofland-Brown took up role. Indiana Landmarks offered a boost in 2014—a $70,000 challenge grant tainty and always parsimonious—requires perennial vigilance. Headquarters Southeast Field Office at the turn of the nineteenth Preservation Action routinely tracks these and many other Indiana Landmarks Center Aurora century, which touted good made possible by a bequest from Crawfordsville pres- 1201 Central Avenue 812 926 0983 policy issues. Regardless of your political stripe, if you share an Indianapolis, IN 46202 ervationist Olen Gowens. Two decades and $500,000 Southwest Field Office design as an antidote to the ills [email protected] Evansville interest in federal policies that affect historic preservation, I 317 639 4534 of city living. Learn more about later, a crowd celebrated in May when a crane hoisted 812 423 2988 encourage you to explore Preservation Action’s website: 800 450 4534 the history of the station on our the new 86-foot Kirtley Tower into place, making the Western Regional Office Northwest Field Office Terre Haute preservationaction.org. Gary bike tour of the Riverside neigh- courthouse whole again. 812 232 4534 I think you’ll find, as I have, that historic preservation tran- 219 947 2657 borhood on September 22 (see Huddleston Farmhouse Central Regional Office Cambridge City details on p. 18). scends partisanship. Indianapolis 765 478 3172 317 639 4534 Morris-Butler House Eastern Regional Office Indianapolis Cambridge City 317 639 4534 765 478 3172 Veraestau Northern Regional Office Aurora South Bend 812 926 0983 Marsh Davis, President 574 232 4534 French Lick and West bands of color comprise graphic Northeast Field Office Baden Springs tours Wabash 866 571 8687 (toll free) artist Milton Glaser’s 1974 mural 800 450 4534 812 936 5870 Color Fuses encircling the lower Southern Regional Office Jeffersonville level of the Minton-Capehart 812 284 4534 Federal Building, a Brutalist Indiana University smartly repurposed the landmark designed for ©2018, Indiana Landmarks; ISSN#: 0737-8602 landmark in Indianapolis. Turn On the The Republic newspaper in Columbus for its new architecture degree Indiana Landmarks publishes Indiana Preservation bimonthly to p. 8 to learn about the mural’s Cover program. PHOTO BY HADLEY FRUITS for members. To join and learn other membership benefits, visit indianalandmarks.org or contact memberships@ restoration in 2012. indianalandmarks.org, 317-639-4534 or 800-450-4534. To © U.S. GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION offer suggestions forIndiana Preservation, contact editor@ indianalandmarks.org. 2 INDIANA PRESERVATION AWARD WINNERS

with a developer on the other. Wabash Marketplace identifies the downtown’s top 10 endangered buildings, and we’re always working to make a differ- ence on those.” Downs accepted the $2,000 Honoring Servaas Memorial Award at the annual meeting and invited every- Preservation one to visit Wabash. “Come on First Friday, spend the night at the Leaders Charley Creek Inn, visit Modoc’s for your wake-up coffee and browse the IF YOU OWN AN OLD Saturday morning Farmer’s Market. building and you have a problem, you Want to open a business in a historic want an electrician/carpenter/plasterer building downtown? We’ll help you who knows old buildings. And that’s BELOW: Porter solution. Jon Groth raised money to move the 1912 building with that,” Downs urged the crowd. getting harder to find. Preservationists County Buildings an eighth of mile along the tracks to the school, where the Visit wabashmarketplace.org for Trades Corporation bemoan the increasing scarcity of in Valparaiso won students worked for three years to restore it. more info. tradespeople with expertise in repair- our 2018 Servaas Madilyn Mayernik just graduated from the program. “I The Williamson Prize for outstand- ing and restoring historic structures. Memorial Award in got to see how walls were built in 1912. In the second year, ing individual leadership in preserva- The Porter County Building Trades the youth-serving we built walls for the new classrooms, did drywalling, refur- tion went to Stanley Madison. In the category for saving a Corporation, winner of Indiana 1912 depot and train- bished the old transom windows. Some students worked on 1990s, Madison steered the rescue Stanley Madison Landmarks’ 2018 Servaas Memorial ing a new generation the electrical,” Mayernik says. of the Lyles Station School from a (above) won the Williamson Prize Award for outstanding achievement in restoration. She’s going to Purdue Northwest to study construction collapsing 10 Most Endangered wreck PHOTO BY BOB PHELPS for outstanding in preservation in the youth-serving management. “I love the process and seeing the depot go to a museum that has attracted nearly individual leader- category, addressed the skills gap and ABOVE: Wabash from raw to refurbished and repurposed.” 15,000 students since 2011. People ship in preservation. Marketplace won saved a landmark in the process. “About 40 building trades students each year worked to who visit learn how free blacks built a He led the restora- in the nonprofit tion of Lyles Station When Canadian National applied category for saving restore and adapt the place as The Hair Depot, the school’s thriving farming community begin- School (right) for a permit to demolish the historic historic buildings and cosmetology classroom. They acquired the skills to work on ning in the 1850s in a restricted and as a museum of depot in Valparaiso four years ago, leading the impres- both old and new buildings,” Groth notes. He accepted the segregated era. the community sive downtown the director of the county’s vocational Servaas sculpture and $1,000 prize at Indiana Landmarks’ He remains chairman of the Lyles founded by free revitalization. blacks in the 1850s. education center came up with a PHOTO BY LEE LEWELLEN annual meeting in September from Randall Shepard, chair- Station Historic Preservation Corp, His knowledge man of our awards committee. leads tours of the school, manages spe- and eloquence Wabash Marketplace, Inc., the Servaas Memorial Award cial events, plants the garden, recruits landed the Gibson County landmark winner in the nonprofit category, makes preservation a top volunteers—a corps of about 30—and a prominent role priority in its work to revitalize historic downtown Wabash. steers the group to achieve an ambi- in the Power of out Stanley Madison. “Because of Stan’s work, his passion and The organization’s impressive record includes a façade grant tious master plan for the site. Place exhibit in the his eloquence, Lyles Station and Gibson County are repre- program, a revolving loan fund to aid in attracting busi- “Indiana is a richer state because Smithsonian’s new sented on the national stage in one of the world’s preeminent National Museum of nesses, events that regularly bring people downtown, and the historic Lyles Station School still African American museums,” noted Eric Heidenreich, Executive Director of the a fearless willingness to buy and turn around dilapidated exists to instruct us about the African History and Culture. Gibson County Visitors & Tourism Bureau. PHOTOS: ABOVE, ©DAILY historic buildings. American experience, and Stanley CLARION/RACHEL GRABER “Hardly a week goes by that I don’t think about Reid AKPOTU; RIGHT, STEWARD “We position ourselves to handle inquiries about our Madison is the man responsible” said SEBREE Williamson,” Madison declares. “Lots of people said you’ll community and leap to respond when an opportunity comes Indiana Landmarks President Marsh never make it happen when we were washing cars in the park- along,” says Steve Downs, a local attorney and part-time Davis when he presented the award. ing lot at Wal-Mart to raise money for the project, but Reid executive director of Wabash Marketplace. “Right now, we When the Smithsonian National believed anything is possible if you stay focused on the goal. have four historic buildings undergoing significant renova- Museum of African American History Reid gave you encouragement and advice and how could tion and feelers out on a fifth. We bought a couple of them. and Culture was in development in you thank him enough? I’m so honored to receive this award We found the right developer and sold one and partnered Washington, D.C., its curators sought named for him.”

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sparking a life-long dream of owning wanted. “We’ve always driven down one of the old mansions himself one Ridge Avenue and thought the house day. When the Cook House at 337 was so pretty but never thought it Ridge Avenue came on the market would be for sale,” says Melissa. late last year, he and his wife Sam At the Squibb House, tour-goers quickly put in an offer. They loved the will see a work in progress. High-profile sturdy brick construction and historic whiskey distiller William Squibb built features, including five fireplaces with the Second Empire and Italianate-style Rookwood tile surrounds. “We went house with a central tower in 1883. In through and my wife said, ‘This is the recent years, the home declined visibly house I want.’ She gets whatever she until Indiana Landmarks intervened wants,” jokes Jim Fulton. to untangle it from a legal issue and Built in the early 1860s, the foreclosure so it could be sold. Italianate home was owned by several Bill and Nancy Smith purchased families, including Colonel Bannister, the property last year and began a distillery manager, before being pur- stabilizing it, banishing weeds and chased in 1891 by William F. Cook, overgrowth, and adding a fresh coat the first of five generations of Cooks of paint to the brick exterior. (You who resided there. Since January, the can read more on their story on our Take a Ramble Fultons have been rehabilitating the website and in the September/October property and plan to restore some 2017 issue of Indiana Preservation). IN THE EARLY 1800S, WHISKEY DISTILLERIES The Ridge historic features lost over time, includ- put southeast Indiana on the map, earning Lawrenceburg the Avenue Ramble ing a balustrade on the porch roof Bill and Pat Krider’s Built in 1929 for fireworks on September 22 nickname “Whiskey City.” In the adjacent town of Greendale, shown in a 1948 photo of the home. restored 1929 manufacturer Clifford Diehl, the opens four historic Mediterranean distilling moguls built stately homes reflecting their prosper- homes with ties They recently outfitted the fireplaces, Revival-style house Mediterranean Revival-style house ity on Ridge Avenue. Today, the architect-designed homes to barons in the primarily ornamental in recent years, (above) joins three at 548 Ridge Avenue recalls an in Italianate, Second Empire, and other historic styles offer a distillery industry, for gas heat. Victorian stand- Italian villa, with a black-and-white including Melissa visual feast. On September 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Indiana Among their updates, the Fultons outs, including tiled floor and a colonnaded porch. and Jason Watkins’ Bill and Nancy Landmarks invites you to explore four historic homes inside Italianate (above) are installing a state-of-the-art kitchen, Smith’s work-in- After her husband’s death, Diehl’s and out—including two undergoing renovation—at Ridge and Jim and Sam a breezeway connecting the house to progress Squibb wife Laura moved to the Probasco Avenue Ramble. Fulton’s restora- the summer kitchen, and a glass eleva- House (left) where House, the tour home now owned tion in progress As a boy, Jim Fulton delivered newspapers and groceries tor between the kitchen and master Indiana Landmarks by the Watkins. Owners Bill and Pat (left) where holds a protective to the families living in the grand homes on Ridge Avenue, standout historic bedroom suite. “We are looking at this easement. Krider say that except for kitchen features include as our forever home and eventually we PHOTOS: ABOVE, WILLIAM updates by two owners, the Diehl five Rookwood G. KRIDER; LEFT, JARRAD HOLBROOK fireplaces. may get to the point where we don’t House is unchanged from its 1929 PHOTOS: ABOVE, JARRAD want to climb stairs anymore,” says Jim. appearance. HOLBROOK; LEFT, JIM FULTON Melissa and Jason Watkins had Indiana Landmarks is staging the been looking for a house with more Ridge Avenue Ramble with assistance space for their family, including four from the Dearborn County Historical daughters and two big dogs, when Society and Greendale Redevelopment the home at 509 Ridge Avenue went Commission, and with financial on the market earlier this year. The support from Gambles Furniture Watkins admired the inviting front & Appliances. Tickets cost $12 per porch and the rooftop belvedere with Indiana Landmarks member, $15 for views of the Ohio River. Built c.1868 members of the general public and for William Probasco, who also can be purchased by calling 317-639- worked in distilling, the Italianate- 4534 or online at indianalandmarks. style house had everything they org/ridge-avenue-ramble.

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The 2012 renovation of Of all the styles of modern architecture, few elicit such strong forms, unpretentious nature, and weathered look, which Indianapolis’s Minton-Capehart can make the buildings popular subjects for photographers Federal Building restored Milton reactions as Brutalism. The name comes from béton brut, French for “raw concrete,” the Glaser’s Color Fuses mural to the style’s primary building material. Rough, unadorned, massive forms define Brutalism, and Instagrammers. original specification, with 35 favored for institutional buildings from the 1950s to 1970s. Indianapolis lays claim to one of the best examples of blended bands of vibrant color While some see Brutalist buildings as cold, hulking and brutal, the style has gained the style: the Minton-Capehart Federal Building designed and moving light that simulates the rise and fall of the sun. a following among Modernist aficionados. Defenders cite its geometric shapes, sturdy by the city’s native son, architect Evans Woollen. Built in PHOTO BY JAMES STEINKAMP PHOTOGRAPHY

8 INDIANA PRESERVATION indianalandmarks.org 9 1974-75 on Pennsylvania Street east of the Indianapolis War properly and was replaced early on with fixed lighting. By the cians, writers, architects, chefs, and Memorial Plaza, the six-story building spans a full city block. 2000s, Color Fuses had almost faded out of existence, its colors other creative individuals and small Woollen took inspiration from the ziggurated profile of the eroded by decades of weather, its surface damaged by graffiti, groups can get away for residen- Indiana War Memorial nearby, but inverted the stepped design, yellowed varnish, dirt and grime. cies to foster creativity. “INhouse is with each floor taking up a little more space than the floor From 2009-2012, the U.S. General Services Administration not simply a place, it is a catalyst, a below it. The use of concrete as the primary building material (GSA) undertook a renovation that modernized building sys- nurturing framework with a vision conveyed the permanency of the federal government. tems, the first major infrastructure upgrade since the building’s to help imaginative talent grow,” The U.S. General Services Administration’s Art in construction, and seized the opportunity to restore the mural Smith declares. Architecture program hired graphic artist Milton Glaser, and illuminate the architecture. Recognizing the building’s “It’s a very contemplative envi- famous for originating the “I NY” logo, to create a mural Modernist pedigree, the GSA consulted internal documents ronment that feels like it is in the on the building at street level. Measuring 672-feet long and that had identified key architectural elements of the build- middle of nowhere, but actually is 27-feet high and wrapping the entire lower level, Glaser’s ing that should be maintained, while implementing modern very close to everything you need,” Color Fuses featured 35 blended bands of color, augmented by systems that allowed the project to achieve a LEED Silver says INhouse Director Julien Robson, certification. a British curator who has worked in GSA hired North Carolina-based conservator Martin museums and galleries in the United Radecki, former chief conservator at the Indianapolis Museum Kingdom, Europe, and the United of Art, to identify the mural’s original colors, painting sample States. “It is idyllic.” cards presented to Glaser at his New York studio for approval. INhouse was in its infancy when Glaser confirmed all but one color was correct. Smith purchased the Floyd Knobs Using a scissor lift and working at night when the build- landmark, and while brainstorming ing was closed, Thomas Moore Studios painted the prescribed uses for the property, saw a resi- bands of color, with one worker operating the lift while dency program as a way to further another used a spray paint gun to create the feathering tech- A STARK WHITE MODERNIST HOUSE SITS Louisville philan- INhouse’s mission. INhouse evaluates nique between colors. It took an hour-and-a-half to set up the nestled amid the hills in Floyds Knobs outside New Albany. thropist Brook Smith residencies based on merit and avail- restored a Modernist equipment each night, and an hour-and-a-half to take it down, The architecture of the house maximizes views of the woods home designed by ability of the house, with stays lim- with workers facing challenging lighting and weather condi- and hillside, a goal of the original owner and the architect, John Johansen, ited to two weeks or less. “We want tions. Morning inspections verified that each night’s work held and perfect for its present use as INhouse, a restful retreat for one of the Harvard it to remain a place that is precious, up in daylight. creative individuals and groups. Five, in the south- that helps the people who really need ern Indiana hills as A computer-controlled system of energy-efficient LED Bob Kelso admired architect Philip Johnson’s Glass House INhouse, a retreat to go there,” adds Robson. lights illuminates Color Fuses, mimicking the gradual move- in Connecticut, and chose John Johansen, one of Johnson’s for creative individu- Learn more about INhouse’s mission ment of the sun as Glaser envisioned. “Redoing meant making peers and a Modernist icon in his own right, to design his als and projects. and see additional photos of the home PHOTOS BY EDWARD A. WINTERS programmed lights that moved a band The U.S. General it what it was intended to be. And then, of course, it became family’s Indiana home. Johansen studied at Harvard University on its website, inhousecreative.org. of light gradually across the mural at Services something totally different than what had first appeared. It under Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus movement. He Administration night, simulating the rise and fall of redesigned its became what I had imagined it might be,” observed Glaser in a was one of the “Harvard Five,” with Johnson and architects the sun. security screening 2013 video documenting the project. Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, and Eliot Noyes, whose work The bright mural contrasted areas—added after Inside, security screening areas—not contemplated until shaped Modernist design principles. Johansen died in 2012 at sharply with the concrete building and the 1995 bombing after the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing—put scan- age 98. of Oklahoma City’s drew decidedly mixed reviews. A 1974 federal building—in ning equipment and checkpoints in the lobby immediately in Kelso built Johansen’s design, a U-shaped house, in 1957, Indianapolis Star article observed, order to recapture front of the entry doors. The renovation moved the screening incorporating walnut woodwork from trees harvested on the “In an area of the city where there is the original open, area to the side of the lobby, installing glass partition walls to property and a round fireplace made of local creekstone. The airy lobby. already an abundance of architectural PHOTO BY JAMES STEINKAMP route visitors to security without blocking the visitors’ view house suffered under several intervening owners until a 2012 martial music, Glaser’s mural turns a PHOTOGRAPHY of the open, airy hall. “Now when people walk in the build- renovation recaptured the home’s Modernist spirit. happy face toward the artillery of the ing, they are seeing the space as Woollen intended rather than Contemporary art collector Brook Smith, president of Indiana World War Memorial Plaza the security apparatus,” says Mariah McGunigle, preservation Smith Manus, a national surety bond business, founded and evokes a mood of Godspell.” architect. “It enhances that first impression of the lobby.” INhouse in 2015 to support creative individuals and proj- Glaser’s vision for Color Fuses faced You can see a short video on the conservation of Color Fuses ects in the Louisville area and nationally through residencies challenges from the start. The pre- at gsa.gov/mintoncapehartfb. and seed funding. Smith bought the two-bedroom house to scribed lighting system didn’t work serve as INhouse’s retreat center, a place where artists, musi-

10 INDIANA PRESERVATION indianalandmarks.org 11 ing continued to house the rest of the newspaper’s operations An Icon Repurposed through 2016. The forward-thinking design made the site easy to adapt for IN SEEKING A LOCATION TO IU’s program, requiring very few changes to the layout. Where train the next generation of architects, reporters once wrote and filed stories and presses ran, students you couldn’t ask for a better setting than will design in architecture studios. Where editors and adminis- Columbus, Indiana. The American trative staff planned the paper, faculty will plan classes. Where Institute of Architects ranks Columbus the paper was assembled, a fabrication lab will execute stu- as the country’s sixth most architectur- dents’ designs. “Each of these areas will serve the same essential ally important city for its wealth of purpose for which they were designed,” says Wilson. buildings designed by a who’s who of modern architecture. Indiana University not only chose Columbus as the site of its new J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program, it also snagged a National Historic Landmark as its home base. In August, the three-year masters’ program opened in the building designed in 1971 for The Republic, the local newspaper. Robert Brown, the fourth-generation publisher of the Columbus newspaper, recruited Modernist architect Myron Goldsmith of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill to design the building on Second Street that was both printing plant and offices. Goldsmith created a 248-foot- The forward-thinking students will feel honored to work and study in one of the The open plan reflected the flow of newspaper produc- The school is working with Jeff Brown, son of Robert Brown long one-story building with walls of design of The Republic jewels of the city, and they’ll also feel weight of responsibil- tion, with editorial, administrative, advertising, circulation and former president and CEO of the newspaper group that ran newspaper’s transpar- glass that allowed passers-by to see the ent building made ity to rise to the ideal of the building,” he said. “Look where and printing functions around the perimeter of the building. The Republic, to bring back some of the Modernist furniture that reporters and presses at work. it easily adaptable you’re sitting and what is expected of you.” The layout put the newspaper’s giant printing press on view once occupied conference rooms and lobby areas. “It’s an iconic piece of early as the home of IU’s Goldsmith’s structural design allowed glass to run from to the man on the street, a symbolic reference to journal- Located downtown within walking distance of much of Modernist architecture,” says T. Kelly new J. Irwin Miller floor to ceiling, and he specified that almost everything in the istic transparency and a mesmerizing commercial for the Columbus’s stellar architecture, the program offers students Architecture Program, Wilson, director of graduate studies where passers-by see building be white, so that the place seems almost transparent. newspaper. While the press production eventually moved to abundant inspiration and opportunities for hands-on learn- in architecture at the IU School of students at work in Goldsmith also designed the landscape of honey locust and another facility—an eventuality contemplated by Brown and ing—and lets the public see them learning in their transparent Art, Architecture and Design. “The studios. ornamental crabapple trees that filter light into the building. Goldsmith in their planning—the nearly block-long build- new home. PHOTOS BY HADLEY FRUITS

CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS! Show your love for Modernist archi- THE EXHIBIT COLUMBUS National Symposium, Design, Community, and Progressive MORE FOR tecture by entering our “IN Modern Love” photo contest underway now through Preservation, begins this year at Newfields in Indianapolis on September 26 before head- September 30. Share your photos of Indiana Modernist buildings and ing to Columbus for three more days. Featuring conversations with more than 30 visionary MODERN landscapes from the 1930s-1970s on Instagram—taken since January 1 leaders, 10 exclusive tours, the AIA Trade Show, and many special events, program highlights this year—with the hashtags #IndianaModern and #INModernLove. include a conversation with Susan Saarinen at North Christian Church, designed by her father Winners will receive cash prizes, with the top winner receiving Eero, and a screening of Eric Saarinen’s The Architect Who Saw the Future, followed by LOVERS LEE LEWELLEN complimentary membership in Indiana Landmarks and Indiana a Q&A with Eric. There’s still time to register at exhibitcolumbus.org. Modern. We’ll announce the three top winners on October 8 on our social media platforms. Visit indianalandmarks.org/ EVER WONDERED WHAT’S involved in nominating your property to the National Register Indiana-modern for more info. of Historic Places? In Road to the National Register, Indiana Landmarks members Dick and Connie Grace share their journey nominating their 1958 Mid-Century Modern home in West Lafayette, where they’ve lived since 1980. The story is available as a Kindle book on Amazon.com. 12 INDIANA PRESERVATION indianalandmarks.org 13 LANDMARKS WHAT WE'RE SAVING NOW FOR ON THE MARKET see more at SALE indianalandmarks.org

Suzane Railroad Thomas House 828 East Adams Street, Muncie Town Alfred Grindle-designed 1896 Colonial Revival gem in National Rebound Register district has 5,400 square feet (plus third floor and base- YOU MIGHT GUESS THAT ment), original woodwork and Monon, a town of 1,725 in north- western Indiana, is a railroad town. hardware, large rooms with lots of When the railroads declined, so did In 2017, the all- years of vacancy showed. “Water poured in through holes natural light, eight fireplaces, and the town. Its downtown theater man- volunteer Monon in the roof, ran down the aisles and out the back door,” says large carriage house. 4 bedrooms, Civic Preservation 2.5 baths. Saved from exploitation, aged to hang on until early in the Society installed Julie Gutwein, the group’s secretary. The all-volunteer group, current century, when it closed after a new marquee an Indiana Landmarks affiliate, used one of our Efroymson and largely restored. losing its audience to a new movie (above) to signal Family Endangered Places grants to assess the rehabilitation house built on the outskirts. its commitment needs and costs. to revive the $300,000 By the time Monon Civic 1938 landmark They repaired the roof over the auditorium, carted off Frank Meeker, 765-702-0717 Preservation Society purchased the as a theater and moldy seats, installed new windows, and repaired the masonry 1938 Monon Theater in 2013, the place for com- façade. “Most of the improvements were not obvious to pass- munity meetings ersby,” says Gutwein. “So we decided a new marquee would be and events. When the preservation a big announcement that, yes, we are working on the theater.” society acquired The group won $42,500 in grants from North Central the building in 2013, Health Services and Tippecanoe Arts Foundation to install the exterior (left, below) had lost the a new marquee with an Art Deco-influenced design. Last original marquee October, a crowd gathered to see the inaugural marquee light- and architectural ing. Other donations funded the re-creation of the exterior character. The show cases that once held posters of coming attractions. group is raising money and apply- The Monon Civic Preservation Society also raises money ing sweat equity to by hawking concessions at local ball games and at elementary Starr House Monticello Fire Station Williams House reclaim the water- school movie nights, selling calendars, and serving lunch at logged interior (left). 51 S. 14th Street, Richmond 120 W. Washington Street, Monticello 20024 N. State Road 450, chamber of commerce meetings. At the annual town festival Martin County PHOTOS: ABOVE, LEE Built c.1880 for the Starr family that The City seeks adaptive reuse propos- LEWELLEN; LEFT, ©MONON this June, a silent auction and tag sale of donated Coca- Cola CIVIC PRESERVATION founded Starr Piano Company, this als for this nearly century-old fire sta- Located 33 miles south of SOCIETY; BELOW LEFT, TODD ZEIGER memorabilia, held in a historic building downtown that once two-story home retains original fea- tion, preferring proposals that would Bloomington, c.1850 frame house on served as a bottling plant, benefitted the restoration. Remember tures and old-world craftsmanship preserve the building’s historic exterior 40 acres includes 3,000 square feet on the moldy seats? You can adopt a seat in the ongoing campaign including porches, fireplaces, built-ins, and contribute to downtown’s viabil- two floors. Four rooms flank a center to raise the money to buy new seats for the auditorium. hardwood floors, and stained glass. ity. Proposals must be postmarked by hall on each floor, each with a fireplace Property includes wonderful landscap- November 15, 2018. with original mantels and wide board The Society’s volunteers see the building as a catalyst for ing, 3-car garage. poplar flooring. revitalization in the downtown National Register district. They Lori Cheever $125,000 [email protected] $240,000 envision the Monon as a gathering place that will not only show Tim Orr, Coldwell Banker Lingle, 574-583-9889 Greg Sekula, 812-284-4534 movies, but also host dinners, receptions, concerts, meetings, 765-914-0994 RFP details, monticelloin.gov [email protected] plays, even training conferences for area businesses. Stay updated [email protected] on their progress by following @MononCivicPreservationSociety on Facebook.

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Fortune Protects Rural Heritage Tours & Events the area runs deep. Indeed, nearly 1,500 acres of farmland, forest, pasture and waterways, dotted with historic barns and farmhouses, was listed in 2008 in the National Register of Historic Places as Traders Point Eagle Creek Rural Historic District. The honor trig- gers a review process in the event of a development using federal dollars, but it offers no protection if an owner using no private funds chooses to demolish historic structures or pave over farmland. Sheila thinks long-term. To ensure Fortune Acres remains an operating organic farm after she is gone, and to protect the prop- erty from development, Sheila reached out to Indiana Landmarks. We collaborated with her on an arrangement to achieve her goals. Through generous estate planning, Sheila worked with us to attach a preservation easement to the farm that will protect the character of the land and historic farmhouse. She also provided the means for Indiana Landmarks to contract with operators to ensure the farm continues to meet the highest standards in organic farming practices. Sheila spends part of each year in Boulder, Colorado, a mecca of IN THE LATE ‘90S, A BUCOLIC Sheila Fortune res- organic farming and the local food movement. Her experiences there plot of land bordered by Moore Road cued a key parcel shaped her self-sustaining vision for Fortune Acres. The property in Indianapolis’s and 86th Street on Indianapolis’s north- Traders Point Rural uses a geothermal heating and cooling system as well as a wind spire west side went up for sale. Some saw Historic District. to power the barn, electric fence, and solar fans in the greenhouse, Frightful: it as the perfect location for a school. She bought the where much of the produce is grown from seed. Fortune Acres raises A Silent It was a vison that horrified Sheila property, created seasonal veggies and flowers for its roadside market, and supplies an organic farm and Fortune, who valued the area’s histori- roadside market, produce and microgreens to area restaurants. The farm’s alpaca and Halloween cally agrarian character. and collaborated llama wool produces yarn for the scarves, sweaters, and blankets sold Oct. 26, Indianapolis Fortune took action: she bought the with Indiana at the market. The farm’s crop of hay feeds the livestock. Landmarks to SCARY MOVIES, SCARY MUSIC, 43-acre parcel to preserve the farmland “It takes a while to get the soil the way you want it. You have to protect the organic scary lighting, a costume contest and forest and a nineteenth-century farm and a historic stick with it,” says Sheila. “But it’s rewarding to see this small acre- with cash prizes (come as your farmhouse. In 2006, she created house. age produce an abundance of organic vegetables for people with favorite monster), and adult bev- PHOTO BY PAIGE WASSEL Fortune Acres, an organic farm and unique and individual tastes.” erages in the Grand Hall, Indiana roadside market. The market at 8796 Moore Road is open Thursdays through Landmarks Center. In coordina- Sheila was raised on her mother’s Saturdays mid-July through mid-October from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. tion with Indiana Humanities’ One historic farm just down the road so her (or until their available produce sells out). Learn more at State/One Story program, we appreciation for the agrarian character of fortuneacres.com. celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein with screenings of the 1931 sound filmFrankenstein, The Man Who Made a Monster starring Boris INDIANA LANDMARKS APPLAUDS OUR State University graduate with a masters’ degree in historic Karloff and the 1910 short silent summer interns who worked preservation preservation, assisted Stafford in covenant and easement Frankenstein, accompanied by projects around the state: monitoring. In our eastern office,Alyssa Reynolds, a Ball State University student studying historic preservation, monitored University of Indianapolis musicians Brock Stafford, an Eastern Illinois covenant and easement properties in the east and surveyed performing John Berners’ movie University graduate with a masters’ degree round and polygonal barns. In our northern office,Madi Stover, score. 7-10:15 p.m. $13/member, in historical administration, monitored an Ivy Tech–South Bend student studying environmental conditions at Indiana Landmarks’ covenant $15/general public. design, assisted with design research for our Kizer House and BRIEFLY and easement properties in Marion County helped in organizing Treasure Hunt North. indianalandmarks.org/ NOTED (300, and counting). Shelbi Long, a Ball silent-halloween-18

PHOTO BY BOB ZYROMSKI 16 INDIANA PRESERVATION indianalandmarks.org 17 FRENCH LICK & Annual Meeting WEST BADEN SPRINGS TOURS Sept. 15, Indianapolis RSVP & BUY TICKETS See what we Saved! Restored! for events at indianalandmarks.org/tours-events Wednesday-Saturday or by calling (800) 450-4534 or (317) 639-4534 Reconnected! in the past year, West Baden applaud winners of Servaas Wine Springs Hotel Memorial Awards and the 10 a.m., 2 & 4 p.m. Williamson Prize, and elect new French Lick Down on First Friday Springs Hotel directors at our annual meet- Indianapolis Noon ing, Indiana Landmarks Center. the Farm! Monthly (except July & January), our Rapp Family Gallery Tours depart from our Reception 2:30-3 p.m., program Sept. 21, Cambridge City Landmarks Emporium in hosts free art shows, with an option to tour our restored from 3-4:30 p.m. Free for Indiana AN EVENING OF FOOD, each historic hotel on IN headquarters. 6-9 p.m. 56 in southern Indiana. Landmarks members. wine, and art, staged SEPT. 7 – “Sankofa,” mixed media works by WE ARE Combo ticket available. Indianalandmarks.org/ in cooperation with the INDY ARTS Reservations recom- annual-meeting-18 Richmond Art Museum at our mended: 866-571-8687. OCT. 5 – “I Am Story: B Farrand, the Experimentalist,” 1841 Huddleston Farmhouse. paintings by Brinton Farrand Twilight Tour Ridge Avenue You’ll see plein air artists from the New Richmond NOV. 2 – “Chaos,” photography by John Siskin Sept. 8, West Baden Ramble Group creating paintings on Costumed characters Sept. 22, Greendale site and selling their work, depict famous guests at Explore four historic homes Heritage Talk West Baden Springs dur- with historic paintings from Sept. 11, Elkhart ing its heyday in the ‘teens inside and out—two undergoing the museum’s collection on Indiana Album – Preserving Historic Images and ‘20s, including golfer restoration and two complete— display. A harvest dinner Walter Hagen, mobster Big Joan Hostetler shows how to identify, preserve and share on a street where nineteenth- uses locally sourced meats Jim Colosimo, silver screen historic family photos. 6-7:30 p.m. at Havilah Beardsley cowboy Tom Mix, and the century movers and shakers built and produce, accompanied House, 102 W. Beardsley Ave. $10/general public, $5/ “unsinkable” Molly Brown. their homes. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $12/ by regional wines. 6-9 p.m. member in advance; $12/general public, $7/member at the $15/general public, $14/ member, $15/general public. See $35/Indiana Landmarks door. Free for students with online reservation. Sponsored member, $10/child age 13 more on pp. 6-7. member, $50/general public. and under. 7 p.m. by Indiana Landmarks and Ruthmere Foundation, with Indianalandmarks.org/ Indianalandmarks.org/ wine-down-18 support from Tim and Meg Shelly. Indianalandmarks.org/ ridge-avenue-ramble french-lick-west-baden indianalandmarks.org/ heart-city-heritage-the-indiana-album Quality of Place Conference INDIANAPOLIS TOURS Sept. 27, Richmond Monument Circle Sessions focus on neighborhood empowerment, developing Fridays & Saturdays, Riverside identity, affordable housing rehabilitation, and more. 8 a.m.- 10 a.m., May-October 1:30 p.m. $35/person. Free guided tours depart from South Bend Chocolate Co., Neighborhood Tours richmondcolumbianproperties.org/quality-of-place 30 Monument Circle. No reservation required. Sept. 20 & 22, Indianapolis City Market Catacombs On our timed-entry walking and bike tours, you’ll Century of Progress Talk & Tour 1st and 3rd Saturdays, May-October, and an additional get acquainted with Riverside Park, designed by J. Sept. 28-29, Indiana Dunes Saturday, October 27, 11 & 11:30 a.m., noon, 12:30 & 1 p.m. Clyde Power and George Kessler and part of Kessler’s Sorry, both our talk and tour are sold out! Keep an eye out on Advance ticket required. $12/person age 12 and up; $6/child National Register-listed city-wide park and boulevard our website for future events in the Indiana Dunes. (age 6-11); $10/member; $5/child of a member. system, and the adjacent historic neighborhood. Athenaeum Two-hour walking tour on September 20 leaves every BARN AGAIN! 2nd Saturdays, May-September, noon 15 minutes beginning at 5 p.m. ($8/member, $10/gen- Oct. 6, Greencastle Advanced ticket required. $8/person age 12 and up; $4 per eral public); three-hour bike tour on September 22 Get practical solutions from experts in a workshop on how to child (age 6-11); $6/member; free for children ages 5 and tour departs every 15 minutes beginning at 9 a.m. ($15/ rehab and adapt old barns for today’s needs, followed by an under. member, $20/general public). afternoon tour of historic barns in Putnam County. 9 a.m.- Indianalandmarks.org/ongoing-tours-events indianalandmarks.org/tours-events 5 p.m. $25/person. LEE LEWELLEN indianalandmarks.org/barn-again-18

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Banking on a New Use WHEN CANDLES HOLOCAUST Museum and Education Center, created by survivor Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam, began to outgrow its Terre Haute location, Indiana Landmarks recommended the his- toric First National building where our west- ern office had been a tenant many years ago. In June, First Financial Corporation donated the building to Indiana Landmarks, plus $110,000 to help jumpstart the renovation. Chicago architect Solon Beman designed the 1903 bank. A 1920s Neoclassical make- over created a three-story banking hall with marble floors, walnut wainscoting, a coffered barrel-vaulted ceiling with a central skylight, and seven murals by Vicente Aderente, a New York artist whose work adorns land- Indiana Landmarks is Like what marks nationwide. reroofing Terre Haute’s First National Bank to you’ve read? Long vacant under a leaking roof, the halt deterioration of building needs immediate intervention. the Neoclassical inte- Help Indiana Landmarks achieve even more by: Tommy Kleckner, director of Indiana rior. We‘ll transfer own- • Renewing your membership Landmarks’ western office, will man- ership to CANDLES Holocaust Museum, • Making a donation in addition to age the stabilization work, after which which is raising money membership we’ll pass ownership to CANDLES to to relocate to the • Including Indiana Landmarks in your downtown landmark. complete the job. Learn more about estate plans PHOTO BY LEE LEWELLEN the project at indianalandmarks.org/ For more information talk to Sharon Gamble, first-financial-donates-terre-haute-bank. 800-450-4534 or visit indianalandmarks.org indianalandmarks.org