Grants Report 2017 LEE LEWELLEN Historic Preservation Commission Indiana Landmarks EFROYMSON FAMILY of South Bend & St. Joseph County, and the Central ENDANGERED PLACES GRANTS South Bend: $3,000 for structural Indiana Community assessment of 1903 Hoosier Brewery Foundation jointly In FY 2017, Indiana Landmarks made 11 endangered places manage a fund grants to non-profit organizations. The grants helped assess Miller Historical Society, Miller: $2,500 that awards grants structural integrity, develop rehabilitation costs, and investigate for feasibility study of endangered to help preserve new uses for historic buildings. The fund honors the Efroymson 1910 commercial building Marion County Family for its significant support for our endangered places One Community Whitley, South landmarks. A programs. Whitley: $2,500 for feasibility study of $5,000 grant will help repair $2,500 for c.1920 Matson Building Cedar Lake Historical Association, Cedar Lake: windows at the structural assessment of Lassen Hotel, an 1895 resort that Roachdale Revitalization Cooperative 1886 Indianapolis houses Lake of the Cedars Museum Alliance, Roachdale: $1,000 for City Market. Clark County Museum, Inc., Jeffersonville: $2,500 for feasibility revitalization plan for downtown study of the c.1830 Thomas Jefferson Howard House Town of Orleans, Orleans: $2,500 Clay Community Parks Association, Brazil: $2,500 for for structural assessment of three feasibility study on repurposing 1887 Martin County Bridge 21 fire-damaged downtown buildings, for trail use in Clay County including former bank and two historic commercial buildings Friends of Camp Chesterfield, Chesterfield: $2,500 for feasibility study of the 1914 Sunflower Hotel Wilbur Community Center Corporation, Wilbur: $1,000 for Friends of the Ohio Theater, Inc., Madison: $2,500 for feasibility study of 1876 Wilbur School feasibility study of the 1938 Ohio Theater indianalandmarks.org / (800) 450-4534 / (317) 639-4534 McDoel Historic District, Bloomington: Monroe County PARTNERS IN PRESERVATION residential historic district with approximately 161 properties, PROGRAM most built in the early twentieth century, such as the 1925/1965 McDoel Baptist Church With generous underwriting from Jim Morrow, Indiana Landmarks’ Partners in Preservation Program provided funding Micajah Walden Farmhouse, Atlanta: c.1850 double pen for 16 professionally prepared National Register of Historic house with Greek Revival elements built by Walden, one of Places nominations during the fiscal year. National Register the founders of Roberts Settlement, a rural African American status conveys honor, and, in the case of income-producing community properties, eligibility for tax credits for restoration—a financial Miller-Parrott Baking Company, Terre Haute: 1915 Neoclassical- incentive that saves and revitalizes historic places. style factory Benton Cabins, Goshen: c.1927 tourist cabins built to serve North Walnut Street Historic District, Seymour: Jackson travelers along the historic Lincoln Highway County residential district developed at the turn of the Colman-Doctor Farm, Fort Wayne: c.1845 brick Federal-style twentieth century with examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, I-house, c.1910 American Foursquare, and Pennsylvania Bank Barn Tudor Revival, Craftsman, and Spanish Eclectic houses Ripley County Bridges: Including nomination of Busching Covered Bridge, Otter Creek Covered Bridge, and Friendship Bridge, a four-span stone bridge Southwest Quadrant Historic District, Noblesville: Hamilton County neighborhood bordered by Maple Avenue, South Eighth Street, Christian Avenue and the White River that includes African American landmarks St. Timothy Episcopal Church, Indianapolis: Modernist church built in 1960 with International and Bauhaus- style influences, and Evans Woollen III-designed sanctuary built in 1969 showing Brutalism and New Formalism influences Story Historic District, Story: Brown County district of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings and structures, including the 1916 general LEE LEWELLEN store, now an inn Vandalia Chapel and School, Spencer: 1895 chapel and 1855 one-room school First Presbyterian Church, Marion: 1903 Gothic Revival-style church Roberts Chapel Church and Burial Griffith Bank Building, Griffith:c.1925 Colonial Revival-style Association will structure use a $2,500 grant MARION COUNTY Howard Masonic Temple, Kokomo: 1921, five-story Neoclassical- from our African HISTORIC style temple American Heritage Fund to commission PRESERVATION Lincoln Heights Historic District, Clarksville: Clark County an analysis of rehab GRANTS residential district with approximately 100 structures, including needs and costs outstanding Craftsman bungalows and Tudor Revival-style for the 1858 chapel Indiana Landmarks and the Central homes at the historic Indiana Community Foundation jointly settlement in manage a fund created by contributions Massachusetts Avenue Commercial Historic District Expansion, Hamilton County. from each organization and private Indianapolis: Expansion of 1982 nomination to incorporate donors to award grants to preserve post-1930 landmarks and all buildings associated with the Marion County landmarks. All of the former Coca-Cola bottling plant following landmarks are in Indianapolis. indianalandmarks.org / (800) 450-4534 / (317) 639-4534 Brendonwood Historic District Foundation, Inc.: $5,000 Heartland Heritage, Inc., Delphi: $2,000 for brochure noting for professional assessment of common-area landscape and history, architectural features, and mapping locations of Carroll building needs County’s 24 remaining one-room schools Indiana Humanities: $4,000 for masonry repair, tuckpointing, Historic Madison, Inc., Madison: $2,000 for study of income- window restoration, painting and porch recreation at 1904 producing events at Historic Madison’s properties and Meredith Nicholson House similar programs at other sites to create a model for use by preservation organizations and museums statewide Indianapolis City Market Corporation: $5,000 for window repair at 1886 City Market Historic New Carlisle, New Carlisle: $1,066 for walking tour brochure documenting history and architecture of the town, McGowan Hall Foundation, Inc.: $5,000 for architectural including 20-25 buildings in the National Register-listed historic assessment for restoring 1922 McGowan Hall district Montgomery County Cultural Foundation, Crawfordsville: $2,000 to make museum’s exhibits accessible to all visitors AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE by adding touch-screen tablets with interactive elements for GRANTS visitors who cannot access the second floor Indiana Landmarks made four African American Heritage Grants Ransom Place Neighborhood Association, Indianapolis: $1,900 during the fiscal year. to update walking tour materials and develop media kit and children’s art workbook on the historic neighborhood Indiana Historical Bureau: $2,000 for state historical marker honoring the contributions of Evangeline Harris Merriweather, an Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, West Terre Haute: $2,000 African American author, publisher, and teacher in Terre Haute to revise historic architecture brochure and host open house to educate public on campus’s historic buildings Leadership Jackson County, Seymour: $2,500 for architectural assessment of c.1870 Lynn Street Colored School Madame Walker Urban Life Center, Indianapolis: $2,000 for EFROYMSON FAMILY FUND state historical marker honoring the legacy of Madam C.J. Walker, the first African American woman to become a self- Indiana Landmarks serves as preservation advisor to the Efroymson made millionaire Family Fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, recommending projects throughout the state for grants from the Roberts Chapel Church and Burial Association, Noblesville: fund. In 2017, the fund awarded $150,000 to 19 projects. $2,500 for rehab assessment of 1858 chapel at Roberts Settlement Athenaeum Foundation, Inc., Indianapolis: $5,000 for planning documents to make biergarten accessible to all HISTORIC PRESERVATION Boone County Historical Society, Inc., Lebanon: $10,000 for EDUCATION GRANTS roof replacement at 1893 Cragun House Camp Alexander Mack, Milford: $5,000 for repairs to historic Indiana Landmarks and Indiana Humanities jointly award grants auditorium/chapel at 1925 camp to nonprofit organizations for programs and materials that educate the Hoosier public about historic places. We announce Courthouse Square Preservation Society, Albion: $5,000 for the grants annually in May. rehabilitation of 1879 opera house Allen County Courthouse Preservation Trust, Fort Wayne: Ferdinand Historical Society, Inc.: $12,500 for stabilization of $2,000 for tours for elementary students relating the history the 1891 Koerner Block in Birdseye. The building was destroyed and architecture of historic Allen County Courthouse and Old in an arson fire in October, so the grant will be reallocated to City Hall another project. Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, Indianapolis: $2,000 Friends of McCormick’s Creek State Park, Spencer: $10,000 to create educational video telling the story of the National towards restoration of state park’s 86-foot-tall fire tower, built Historic Landmark house and its preservation by Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935 Clay County Genealogical Society, Center Point: $1,000 Main Street Aurora, Inc., Aurora: $7,500 to adapt historic for workshop about Indiana cemetery laws and cleaning, Crescent Brewing Company caverns along Ohio River corridor restoration, and resetting of