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• COVER STORY A newsletter for 9 neighborhoods Chatham Arch Lockerbie Square Ransom Place White River State Park is a unique amenity 30 Cottage Home Old Northside St Joseph Herron-Morton Place Meridian Park Woodruff Place Downtown space is host to landmark attractions and lively events How it works: Urban Times provides space to its member neighborhoods, with news on those pages provided • FEATURES by the neighborhood associations. The neighborhood associations are also History 101: Auto industry roots are visible everywhere 12 responsible for home delivery of the newsletter, which is available for distribution the last full weekend of each month prior to the cover date. Cottage Home ready for home and garden tour 28 News deadline for next issue: Wednesday, May 7 • AND MORE... Information should be submitted in writing to Bill Brooks at 305 N. East St. or [email protected], Food co-op movement gets market study grant 7 or to the appropriate neighborhood liaison. Phone: 756-9830 KIB partners with firms for 'My Tree and Me' 9 Advertising Home-building firm has a 'green' thumb 15 To reserve advertising space in the next issue, contact us by Senior Center celebrates in big fashion 17 Friday, May 9 For advertising information, contact Matthew Brooks New sushi bar-lounge-restaurant to open this month 21 at 638-0478 or [email protected] Our rate card can also be requested through Crispus Attucks Museum being renovated 35 www.brookspublications.com
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9419 Hadway Drv-3bd/2ba lots of 422 N. State Ave-3bd/2ba beautifully 2126 & 2128 N. Alabama-Two 1708 N. Bosart Ave-2bd/1ba Easy 5425 Kilmer Lane-Popular Ivy Hills updates and a mature neighborhood. updated home in Holy cross. Gleaming adjacent lots in Herron-Morton Place care home with hardwoods and partially ranch waiting for you. 5BR/3.5BA New in 07 siding, roof and furnace. All hardwoods and new bath, updated priced to sell at $59,900 each finished basement. $79,000 home. Rare find in this neighborhood. Appls include. $142,600 kitchen and extensive renovations $259,900 throughout. $229,900
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9396 Villa Woods Drive Unit 151 6243 Vancouver Ct.-Great 2035 N Talbott-Charming Bungalow 610 Lexington-Quaint Victorian 1304 N Alabama-Totally upgraded Avon-3bd/2ba Great condo with all the 4BR/2.5BA home in Kensington Farms. in Historic Herron-Morton Place. In need cottage in Historic Fletcher Place. condo in Hist. Old Northside. Loft trim! New Bath, open floor plan Fab new kit w/granite cntrs & s/s app. of updating, but it's a real gem. Unique 2BR/2BA w/loft. $164,900 BR/1BA. New contemporary design. fireplace and vaulted ceilings! Move in ready. Just $239,900 decorative tile, stained glass window, $119,900 hardwood floors. $129,900
265 Raintree Place-Fabulous 1653 N Delaware-Great rental or rehab 230 E.9th, Unit 414-Great 608 Lexington Ave.-Great income 2128 N. Delaware-Great lot in Historic 5BR/3.5BA home in Zionsville. New opportunity. Currently 3 units but could Renaissance Tower condo! Fully property. Updated double w/carriage Herron-Morton Place. Build your dream kitchen, SS appl, granite cntrs, be converted back to single family. furnished w/Pottery Barn furnishings. house unit, too. 2 units rented. home here. $75,000 in-ground pool, too much to list. $184,900 Includes flat screen TV. Internet ready, $209,900 $549,000 too. $119,900 Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated __f (jzntuifc
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Urban Times staff QQQ &\m S\\L Bill Brooks, editor and publisher. Matthew Brooks, operations and Restaurant coming to former Payton's Place site 35 0- advertising manager. Bicycle lanes to change parking on thoroughfares 36 ^t Jeremy Crum, distribution and "Events." H. Jeannie Kiley and DeeDee Wiley, editing. Mapleton-Fall Creek neighbors find the connections 38 I Travis DiNicola, basking in Indy Star limelight. Contributing editors: Connie Zeigler and Kim Galeaz. Environmental focus for Talbot Street Art Fair 41 Our June issue will 'hit the streets' the weekend of May 23-25 A primer: How to avoid a rash of garden rashes 44 For selected reports from past Cottage Home launches Neighbor-to-Neighbor Market issues of Urban Times, check the 55 "News and Archives" section at www_brookspublications.com Brooks: State parks have memories for all of us 58 A proud partner of Indy Reads _] ALSO IN PLAYGROUNDS • DEPARTMENTS and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful IRT announces 'StreetFront' renewal 48 IHPC Report n Artful Tread returning to Mass Ave 48 Business news 21 Serving the IndyFringe boasts international flair 48 Et Cetera 23 Mass Ave Celebrating Historic Preservation Month 49 Art & Theater Easley launching summer music series 49 District
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1. What east-west thoroughfare will be the access 6. What gallery recently opened in the East End road to the new Downtown interstate ramps now Shops on Mass Ave? Now Serving: under construction? 7. What mixed-use development project is now under 2. What Lockerbie resident was recently appointed to construction on West Michigan Street at the Segafredo Coffee the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Downtown Canal? Commission? and 8. What is the name of the new gallery operated by 3. What is the title of the 10-foot sculpture coming to the Stutz Artists Association? Gelato Da Vinci the grounds of the Center for Inquiry, IPS School 2. 9. What is the name of the company which first occu 4. What historic school building now houses the pied the near-Northside complex being renovated Medical Magnet High School? into the National Design Factory"? 880 Mass. Ave 317-636-2800 www. bestchocolatei ntown .com 5. What is the name of the new charter school com 10. What is the name of the two-dimensional art ing to the Martindale on the Monon neighbor aspect of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe hood? Festival? Congratulations to our latest winner:
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Every modern convenience you desire Best of old & new! TOTAL quality ren Immaculate condo compound in the This hm really delivers the goods! The closest thing Indy has to Park Ave! Above the city w/rooms of generous & more await you in this finely con ovation of a 4 BR Craftsman classic. hist. Drew Moxley House. This 5 unit Great orig features of the hm: in-laid Great '20's vint bldg condo. Common proportions & amenities: hrdwd firs, structed hm. The massive carved wood New cust Kit, hrdwds, cust drs, & supe condo complex is a great investment hardwds. outstanding wdwrk & stair areas incl lg entry w/panelled walls & state-of-the-art kit, & amazing balcony dr, exotic wd flrs & fine wdwrk. rior fittings. Luxurious bths, mstr ste & opportunity. Live in one of the units & case. Open fir pin. Upgrades: Newer plaster ceilings. Kit w/granite, upgrdd 4br/2.5ba/3-Car Garage $449,900 att. garage. 4br/3.5ba/2-Car Garage rent the others if you desire. $699,900 windows, rf, H20 Htr & furnace! lghtng & stnlss appl. 2br/2ba/l-Car view. 2br/2ba/Rare 1-Garage Spc/1- $424,900 4br/3ba/2-Car Garage $399,900 Garage $304,900 Sec Surface Spc $359,900 2041 Ruckle 1322 E. Vermont St. 1936 N. Delaware St. 1715 N. Alabama St s, iS r « * * jr lL i] »r J T • mil 1 C This new custom hm is sure to please Not a cookie cutter version of every This is definitely the one! Home has an Queen Ann w/period charm & nicely Crackerjack—the surprise is the $! You Good $ in an excellent loc! Old w/its high fin. & open concept flrpln. other hse. One-of-a-kind recently bit open fir pin w/contemporary features. fin upgrades. Blt-in bkcases, coffered wanted the craftsmanship & style of an Northside painted lady w/super orig High-style kit is open to GR w/lofty contemp hm w/lg living areas, 3-story Details: hardwd flrs & fr drs. Directly ceilings, spacious new kit w/cherry cab older hm, high-qual renov at a good $! Vctrn fnsh: Natural wdwrk, bit-ins, fps, ceilings, hrdwds & gas FP. Possible lsr staircase, hrdwd flrs & bit in window across from Kennedy King Park. Close & lrg brkfst rm. Enormous Mstr ste Stylish kit. w/marble cntrs, new baths, leaded glass & pocket drs. Lg kit fir mstr ste. 3/br/2.5ba/2-Car Garage seat w/skyline view. 3br/3.5ba/2-Car to dwntwn & Monon.3br/2.5ba/2-Car w/stor & updtd BA. 4br/3ba $329,900 & hrdwds. 3br/2.5br/2-Car Garage w/brkfst nk w/blt-in seating. $349,900 Garage $349,900 Garage $349,900 $325,000 3br/2.5ba/2-Car Garage $299,900 1640 N. Alabama St.
Golden Hill adjacent to Woodstock and This to-the-studs renovation radiates Victorian that has been finished & is Mass Ave area build your dream home! High expectations? This home does not Sometimes great things come in small- the IMA. Brk walled garden, wd flrs, quality & ease of maintenance! View of ready for you. Orig. feat.include 4 FP, This lot has been preapproved by IHPC disappoint! "The Willows" - Thorough looking packages! Gorgeous wdwrk, marble fp. Remarkably livable flrpln the dwntwn skyline from 2-story porch strcse & wdwrk. Open flrpln. A neigh to bid a single family hm & the archit. renovation w/craftsman period details, vaulted & beamed LR ceiling, leaded with mstr ste(or2) and fin lwr Ivl w/wet & lg wins. Kit w/some stnlss cbntry & borhood setting very close to dwntwn. plans are incl in the list $. Stress free luxury amenities, & dual suites. Deck glass & fine bit-ins. Updated ba & fine bar.4br/4ba/2-Car Garage $324,900 solid surf counters. 3br/2full 2half ba/2- New roof 4br/1.5ba $299,900 opportunity! Lot size 137x68 $315,000 & hot tub.2bd/2.5ba/2-Car Garage kit.. Gr8 screened porch.3br/lba Car Garage $349,900 $295,000 $305,000 110 E. Washington St
» « s t t -1. t llll Open concept living in one of dwntwn's Sophisticated urban chic. Incredible price reduction by motivated Quaint Queen-Anne on prestigious Park This house is sitting pretty on a slight This is one of your last chances to bid best addresses for condo living. Contemporary unlike all of the others! seller! This new const twnhme w/hrd- Ave that is ready for your finishing incline just south of desirable your castle just steps to the best that Upgraded fin. include hrdwd flrs,fp, Open concept int. w/stained concrete wds, bit-ins & a beautiful kit with gran touches. Carefully updated mechani Sutherland Ave. Open concept 1st flr dwntwn has to offer. Footsteps to Mass surround sound,corian counters, flrs, new kit. w/granite, s/s, high-fin. ite cntrs & ctr island. 2nd fir has dual cals & exterior Large wrap around w/lots of windows. Lg mstr ste w/dble Ave's theatres/restrnts/galleries/shops. exposed brick & s/s app. 2br/2ba/2-Car baths & lighting. Mstr ste w/blt-ins & mstr stes. 3br/3.5ba/2-Car Garage porch &L 2-story decks. 3br/3ba sinks & w-i closet. 3br/2.5ba/2-Car Hist neighbrhd. $ below appraisal. Garage $334,900 slate. 2br/2ba $299,900 $299,900 $299,900 Garage $299,900 $274,950 See More Listings on Page 8 MAY 2008 URBAN TIMES Food co-op enthusiasts get funds for market study WO LOCAL GRANTS WILL FUND Other activities that have transpired over A market study to propel the planned the past several months include the establish Tnatural foods cooperative ahead. The ment of a formal steering committee to lead Indy Food Cooperative steering committee the effort, and a number of volunteer commit has secured the necessary funding for the tees to undertake various activities. The fol market study from Central Indiana lowing committees were established: Community Foundation and the Local • Business and Operations, to write a Initiatives Support Corp. Each organization is business plan and develop bylaws and articles contributing $5,000 to pay for the critical of incorporation. study to help determine the best location, • Membership, to create membership facility size and other key information for structures for the organization. opening a whole foods market Downtown or • Financing and Fund-raising, to secure on the Near Eastside. funding, initially for the market study and "The market study is the first tangible step then for other start-up expenses. that must be undertaken before all the pieces • Marketing, to develop a brand for the involved in implementing a natural foods market, do outreach to potential cooperative can fall into place," said Kyle member/shoppers at key community events, Hendrix, chair of the Indy Food Cooperative and work to raise awareness about the project. Steering Committee. "We are grateful to our The steering committee has determined funding partners who have recognized the that the Indy Food Cooperative will operate value of this project for Indianapolis," as a membership-based not-for-profit organi Hendrix continued. zation. Members will enjoy benefits, such as The market study will be conducted by reduced pricing for goods sold. At the same G2G, a California-based firm that specializes time, the co-op will be open to the general in such research for food cooperatives. public and expected to be a destination loca Successful food cooperatives in Bloomington tion by drawing shoppers from all around and Paoli, Indiana, have both utilized the Indianapolis. services of the very specialized, uniquely Those interested in future membership qualified company, Hendrix said. should contact co-op organizers for more Photo by Garry Chilluffo Added Steering Committee member Josh information and/or to receive updates. YOUNG AT HEART -- 80-year-old Nancy Ortega of St. Joseph couldn't resist a trip down Bowling of the Indianapolis Neighborhood Anyone interested in serving on any of the the tube slide during the neighborhood's recent clean-up day. More photos from the well- Resource Center, "Bringing such an experi volunteer committees are encouraged to con attended work session can be found in St. Joe News on page xx. enced consultant to this project helps ensure tact Hendrix at [email protected] or its long-term success." 631-2220. • Creeksicle Lawn & Landscaping, LLC
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Newer const. Open concept flrpln on Thud! That's a sound of another $50K 2 joined 2br/Iba units ideal for Beautifully renovated hist. hm. Open Located in Fall Creek Place. Sleek s/s Great opportunity-free standing car mn Ivl. Pergo-type firing. Kit w/loads reduction. Light-flooded open concept owner/occupant. Loctd in Chatham- flrpln & lg rms make this hm comfort cabinetry, cust lighting, & high-design riage hse condo-The Marie. 1450 sq ft! of storage. Fin. bsmnt. Tile baths & int. w/2 staircases. Mstr ste w/office Arch just a couple of blocks to Mass able & easy for entertaining. Updated ba. GR has a fp & a bank of windows Mstr ste incl ba w/tub & shower & lg entry. Mstr ste. Back yard w/lrg deck & nook, super ba & lg W/I closet. Ave. White picket fence, perennial-full s/s kit, mstr ste., new win., pantry & that look over fully fenced rear yard. W-I closet. GR has fp. 20k in $ avail to hot tub! 3br/2.5ba/2-Car Garage Carriage hse. 3br/2.5ba/2-Car Garage yard w/wrap-around porch. $249,900 laundry rm. 3br/2.5ba $214,900 3BR/2.5ba/2Car Garage $229,000 those who qual. 3br/2ba/2-Car Garage $254,900 $199,900 $224,900 1019 Central 520 E. 61st St 822 Greer St 6151 N Delaware 521 Dorman St.
i i •_j»*PI jflffnrtrr FP? ..Li!"""'"' •' ______Cute as a button, neat as a pin-& oh, so Quaint brck Tudor w/orig features: hrd It IS easy being green! Stop commuting Does not get better than this 2 BR brick Reduced! Recent updates to the home Heads up! Call the movers and start affordable! Great opportunity to live in wds, lighting, leaded windows, ORIGI & enjoy this enviable loc. Updts make ranch near the canal & Broadripple! that you have always admired on packing. Newer const, w/recent a vntge dwntwn hm that needs no NAL cabntry & perd tile + updates. this hm as carefree as possible: newer Huge FR, LR w/fp, DR, updtd kit College include: Lovely new high-end upgrades to its dramatic kit & mstr ba. work-market entry $. Open flrpln. Lg Fnshd lwr-lvl family/office & attchd composition siding, furn, wins & rf! w/stnlss applncs, LR w/new blt-in cbn kit., new upstairs BA w/W-I shwr, & Amt. of light & cubic space will sur tile mstr ba. 2br/lba/2-Car Garage pull-under garage. 3br/lba/l-Car Neutral int w/open fir pln.3br/2ba/2- try & updtd BA w/granite! 2br/1.5ba/l- dual HVAC! 4br/l .5ba/2-Car Garage prise you. Lg rear yard. 3br/3ba/2-Car $199,900 Garage $189,900 Car Garage $224,900 Car Garage $174,900 $224,900. Garage $185,000 1017 N. Alabama St. • 686 Woodruff PI E Dr • 3139 N. Delaware St 1407 Pleasant 735 Lexington Ave. #9
^ S-^- 1 •»£ "__1HT__ L .- 1 • _-_. • 4 . * End 2 BR condo unit w/the charm of an One of the most picturesque hms in Coffered DR, butlers pantry w/blt-ins, Doesn't get better than this TOTALLY Yesteryears attn to detail & finish w/the This loft is loaded w/style. & dramatic Italianate w/period details & upgrades. Wdrff PI is avail for your renovation. heavy cove molding in the LR, great renovated hm. New electrical, plumb upgrdd amenities & open tlr pin that spaces. Exposed brick & beams. Wall Open flrpln. Renovated custom Kit. Orig fnshs: limestone, cedar shake, arts & crafts-inspired staircase & more. ing, siding, windows, drs, cntr island you desire! W/nods to hist New of windows. Raised mstr overlooks GR. w/center island, granite counters, orig. slate/copper rf, leaded wins, coffered New roof! Updates to electrical, kit, & kit, tile bths, carpeting, & tile. Orleans shotgun hses. Upgrdd fnshs: Unique bath w/glass block accents. bit-ins & much more. 2br/2.5ba/2-Car ceilings, inglenook & fps. 6br/2ba/2- HVAC. 4br/lba/l-Car Garage $175,000 3br/2ba/2-Car Garage $144,900 tile. BA fittings & railings..3br/2.5ba/2- lbr/lba/1-Car Garage $149,900 Garage $249,900 Car Garage $129,900 Car Garage $225,000 330 N. Arlington Ave. 208 E .32nd St 655 E. 24th Units A-E 107 E. 9th St. 1702 English Ave 'V 1Mig J / rmllmBJg
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That home was demolished sometime • April 2 !lO; FTI between 1962 and 1972, before the neighbor IHPC hearing •BLIIfOO-0 EDlta • April 8 administrative hearing hood's designation as a historic preservation • A petition Mffl • Chris Day was given approval to recon district. by Central 13 Redevelopment struct a bay window and eaves on the west • Grace Missionary Baptist Church Corp. to extend the expiration date of a previ elevation of the house at 1301 N. Broadway received approval to build a detached one- • April 2 IHPC hearing ously approved Certificate of Appropriateness St.. and to install three windows on rear attic story two-car garage with one dwelling unit at • Ryan Schoettle received approval to to develop a condominium project at 1520- dormer, and reconstruct the rear porch. 1515 N. College Ave. The approval also build a single-family residence with detached 1524 N. Alabama St. was continued to the • Steven Morrison ws given approval to included variances to allow a dwelling unit in three-car garage at 2008 N. Talbott St. (See May 7 hearing. alter windows and doors on the rear elevation an accessory structure and to allow the acces illustration on page 27.) The all-red-brick at 1515 N. ParkAve. sory structure to exceed 75 percent of the • A petiton by Michael Walker to replace house features a shape and massing reminis main floor area of the primary building. existing aluminum siding with synthetic sid cent of the several four-square dwellings on ing at 1516 N. Delaware St. was continued to the block, according to the IHPC staff report. The final version of the plans had been • April 2 IHPC hearing the May 7 hearing. Staff noted that the applicant had worked developed after consultations with IHPC staff • The ReDevelopment Group received with them to create a design that is traditional as well as the Old Northside Association approval to build a single-family residence in form as he desires, but not replicative. The Land Use Committee. with detached three-car garage at 1548 N. Lockerbie Square application received the unanimous support of Broadwav St. The two-story brick house will A single-family house built around 1888 the Herron-Morton Place Association Land display some Italianate influences, but with sits on the property purchased by the church, Use Committee. which sits immediately to the north, in 2007. • April 2 IHPC hearing streamlined decorating elements and a pro • John E. 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North Capitol (also still existing). founding Speedway But Indianapolis was once also Although the Stutz Bearcat was as sym NDIANAPOLIS, IN THE MONTH OF famous for its car production. bolic of the Roaring Twenties as the May, is a one-note song - and the name of The city's auto industry is a worthy bathtub gin-drinking flapper girls who Ithe tune is the Indianapolis 500. The race subject for a column - but it's not exact rode in it, the Great Depression put is encoded in our collective DNA and it's the ly the subject of this column. What is Stutz out of business. It closed in the one thing that someone not from Indianapolis especially fascinating for someone who mid-1930s after producing about 35,000 knows about our city. Everyone knows about works with historic architecture is that cars. the 500 and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. many of the grand buildings which Most of us who live in this city are aware housed car manufacturing plants remain rank Hatfield Co. Down the street that Carl Fisher was one of the founders of a part of the built environment of this Ffrom Stutz, in the 600 block of the Speedway. In May, it is fitting that this city. A tour of Downtown and environs North Capitol Avenue, is the former column, normally devoted to downtown can be a virtual step back in time, if you location of the Frank Hatfield Co. spaces, shares its focus on a person who is know where to look and what you're Hatfield was a Ford distributor and known primarily for his connection with the seeing out your windshield. manufacturer. This beautiful Exotic town that became one of Unigov's excluded In no particular order, here is a quick Revival building with its white glazed cities. and by no means exhaustive list and tile exterior once housed sales rooms If Fisher's only accomplishment had been brief descriptions of some of these downstairs and upholstery and manufac to partner in building the Indianapolis Motor buildings and their former purposes. turing floors upstairs. Those of us who Speedway, he would be an important person grew up in Central Indiana still remem in Indianapolis history. But for the indefatiga tutz Motor Car Co. The former ber the "Hatfield Ford" commercials ble Fisher, the Speedway was but one of many SStutz car manufacturing plant at that were on-going until the mid-1970s; ventures that were woven through the warp 1008 N. 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In 1906, he built a fly ing dirigible that became a regular attraction • CARL FISHER at one of Indianapolis's new amusement Continued from page 12 parks. The "Kami War Airship" made twice daily flights over the Wonderland Amusement Park on East Washington Street. Fisher also and weft of Indianapolis history. And through promoted a local radio station with a dirigible the broader history of our nation. His contri that he piloted over downtown Indianapolis; butions were remarkable and lasting. They in its basket was a pianist playing a piano. spread far wider than the Speedway and far Carl Fisher married 15-year-old Jane Watt beyond the boundaries of this city. in 1909. The couple established their home on A native Hoosier, Carl Graham Fisher was Cold Spring Road near his partner James born into poverty in Greensburg, Indiana, in Allison's mansion. Both the Fisher and the 1874. At age 17, despite being 50-percent Allison mansions later became part of what is blind, he was a champion bicycle racer and now the Marian College campus. stunt performer. He began to race cars before Fisher also played a key role in the devel the turn of the century. In 1904 he set a opment of the Indiana and national highway world's record, driving at just over one system. He promoted the Lincoln Highway, minute per mile on a dirt race track. the first paved intercontinental highway, Around 1902, Fisher moved to which traversed the country from east to west. Indianapolis and opened his own automobile Fisher highlighted the need for the Lincoln • As the Stutz Business Center, the former home of the glamorous Stutz automobile still plays a showroom at 330 North Illinois St. At that Highway with the "Hoosier Trail Blazer's high-profile role — as the home of many artists and art-related companies. location, he sold and serviced Premiers Tour," traveling by car on muddy, rutted roads (which were manufactured in Indianapolis) from Indianapolis to San Francisco in 1913. ry is the tall, red-brick building with lime and Winton automobiles. Also in 1902, Fisher The Dixie Highway was another Fisher stone trim on the south side of the street at and a group of automobile enthusiasts organ project. It traveled across the county from • HERITAGE 1315-1325 East Washington St. Though Ford ized the "Flat Tire Group," a driving club. north to south beginning at the Great Lakes was based in Michigan, the company built The Flat Tire Group changed its name to the Continued from page 12 and ending in Florida at Carl Fisher's new this plant in Indianapolis in 1914 as a regional Hoosier Motor Club in 1911, and in 1917 the resort city, Miami Beach. There Fisher and his assembly, repair and sales center. Sales ended organization became an Indiana affiliate of moved to suburban-sprawl space. Economy wife, Jane, built another mansion in the 1920s in 1916 and assembly stopped in 1932 when AAA, the folks who will "jump" your battery Plumbing now occupies the original Frank and Fisher developed the mangrove swamps the Indianapolis Ford plant became another on a cold winter morning. Hatfield Co. building on North Capitol victim of depression era economics. Today into a thriving resort. He began plans for In 1904, Fisher partnered with James A. Avenue. The words: "Ford, Trucks, Parts" are the building is part of the Ivy Tech campus. another resort in Long Island, N.Y., but in still visible impressed in the tile above the Allison and P. C. "Fred" Avery in the Prest-O- 1926 a hurricane destroyed his Florida devel Lite Storage Battery Co., a factory that pro windows. armon Motor Co. A bit removed from opment wiping out his collateral for the New duced acetylene cylinders were used to light these other buildings, but still within an York investment and most of his fortune. M automobile headlamps. ole Motor Car Co. Located at 730 East easy drive of Downtown, is the former Although his wife, Jane, divorced him, CWashington St., the former Cole Motor Marmon Motor Car Co. in the 1500 block of A few years later Fisher; his Prest-O-Lite Fisher remarried within a year. But, with all Car Co. is the complex bifurcated by the on- South Drover St. just off White River partner, Allison; and Frank Wheeler and the ups and downs, his fortune was dwin ramp to 1-65 south on Market Street. The next Parkway. Although the modern office building Arthur Newby built the Indianapolis Motor dling. The never-say-die PR man, inventor, time you take the soon-to-be-demolished at this complex incorporates a portion of the Speedway near the Prest-O-Lite factory. real estate developer, bicycle, auto and bal ramp, try to imagine the hum of conveyor older Marmon offices, the old industrial They planned to use the speedway as a loon racer suffered a gastric hemorrhage belts and the ratcheting of industrial machin buildings are the real historic stars of the place to test automobiles. But the first event while in Miami Beach in 1939. There Carl G ery which once took place below your car complex. Barely visible over modern struc held at the new speedway was a balloon race. Fisher died a poor man at age 65. wheels. Joseph J. Cole started his business as tures, these brick buildings rise several stories Fisher, of course, piloted one of the balloons. Fisher's many accomplishments made him a buggy company, a common early enterprise with an air of importance befitting the loca Fisher and his partners hired Lemon an important person in cities and towns across for car manufacturers. tion where "the easiest riding car in the Trotter to plat a town around the race track in the nation. But here in Indianapolis, especial The Cole Carriage Co. built its first cars world" was once manufactured. Today, 1912. They called their town Speedway. In an ly in May, it's only proper that we lift the around 1905. Cole formed the Cole Motor National Starch occupies both the old and era when the family automobile was still a official beverage of the Indianapolis Motor Co. in 1908 and began producing luxury cars new buildings at this out-of-the-way location. rarity, they planned a "horseless" workers' Speedway in honor of the man who made our to compete with Detroit's Cadillac. Cole was city focused on the automobile industry. city famous around the world. a born public-relations man. He advertised uesenberg Factory. Also slightly outside In his spare time, Fisher dabbled in inven - Connie Zeigler with Cole Cigars, a Cole baseball team and Dthe city center, just east of the even a Cole hot air balloon. His decision to Indianapolis Zoo, IndyGo bus headquarters produce an expensive, luxury car without found a home in the former Duesenberg engine for the Model J, which had a custom Wheeler carburetor factory in Fountain offering a less-expensive alternative, however, Factory Machine Shop at 1511 West body and sold for $14,000 to $20,000 in the Square, National Auto (mentioned elsewhere was Cole's downfall. Sales dropped and pro Washington St.. The lovely brick buildings 1920s. The company counted movie stars and in this month's Urban Times), the old duction ceased in 1925. The Chicago-style include "daylight shops" with windowed millionaires as customers, but produced only Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (now Zesco) brick building serves today as part of the jail monitors that provided natural light for the 480 cars between 1929 and 1937. Today, city across the street from the Frank Hatfield Co. arrestee processing center and sports an odd workers, as well as the common industrial buses are housed in the buildings that once building on North Capitol Avenue, and many trompe I 'oeil mural of office windows on its boxy buildings. Heralded as America's most produced millionaire's cars. others also dot the landscape of this city. eastern side. luxurious car, Duesenbergs were produced at These car-manufacturing buildings are just Their grand edifices serving as bricks and this complex from the 1920s to 1937. In 1926 a handful of the many dozens of car-related mortar representations of a car culture that ord Motor Co. A few blocks east of the industrialist Errett Lobban Cord bought the structures in or near the city center. 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Jones said the plan is now at least five years in the future - or perhaps longer, depending on the quality of tenant he gets at the site amid the Fall Creek Place residential develop The Highland Stacks project is being built in Holy Cross using both Energy Star and the National Green Building Program standards. ment. A new storefront facade with plate-glass win dows and awnings will be added to the buildings, Construction underway which total about 8,400 square feet in space. Jones Home-builders have said that space could be available to a sole tenant, on Holy Cross project with other sizes going down to 1,400 square feet in size. CCUPANCY IS EXPECTED BY THE "We want to make it look like something," he a 'green' thumb Oend of the year at the Highland Stacks, said, noting that the booming residential area fea the six-unit condominium project The Re tures "a big demand for retail and commercial HE TIDE SEEMS TO HAVE Development Group is now building in activity." High on his priority list is a restaurant. turned in favor of "green" con Holy Cross just east of Interstate 65. The U-shaped building will feature a courtyard in Tstruction. At least that's the The owner-occupied units range in size the front. view from where Pat Dubach sits, as from 1600 square feet to 2200 square feet, The construction should take about 90 days to president of The Re-Development with price tags between $280,000 and complete, Jones added. • Group, a 10-year-old company which $327,000. Each of the units features either deals exclusively with Downtown proj standard or optional rooftop decks boasting ects. a view of the Downtown skyline just 12 Maxwell project "People who want to build blocks away. Two of the units have been Downtown want contemporary, clean sold. • lines," said Dubach, whose opinion was moving along reaffirmed when he recently put out information on his firm's latest project, • The Re-Development Group used "green" HE FIRSL RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE Highland Stacks, located just east of standards for this new home in the Old Northside. on the environment include using bamboo to move into the Maxwell condominium Interstate 65 in Dubach's own neighbor and other renewable source hardwood floor Tproject just south of Lockerbie Square in late hood, Holy Cross. Energy. From a project's start, an Energy ings; environmentally friendly paint prod fall or early winter, according to a presentation Star expert analyzes the planned residence "Green is in demand," said Dubach, who ucts; high-efficiency window systems; high- made at the April 8 meeting of the Lockerbie through computer modeling to forecast how said potential homebuyers are now actively efficiency heating and air conditioning sys Square People's Club. well it will perform from an energy-effi thinking about recycling - as well as the tems and Energy Star-rated appliances; and Todd and Mark Kosene, representing Kosene & ciency standpoint. The verifier will visit footprint they are leaving. For Dubach, dual flush toilets for water conservation. Kosene Residential, said the first-level retail space each project several times, including a final however, the interest is anything but new. Hill also noted that indoor air quality is won't be available until early spring 2009 - but analysis which involves actual physical test "We've been looking at sustainable building "getting more traction" as a major environ said they were optimistic that space would open at ing of a home's soundness. practices for some time," he said, pointing mental concern. The nice thing, he added, is 100-percent occupancy. out that his personal focus on "green" Two other such programs which The Re that many of the environmentally friendly Todd Kosene said that while no deals have been issues centers not about energy efficiency. Development Group and other developers techniques come at no cost. finalized, talks are ongoing with three different "It's about where we build, reutilizing may use include the well-known "L.E.E.D." Not such much, however, with renova restaurant groups, with other tenants expected to be spaces, not increasing the footprint — not rating system, an acronym for Leadership in tions, Dubach said. Many potential home such businesses as dry cleaners and hair salons. killing cornfields." Energy and Environmental Design. That owners who want to rehabilitate existing "We want it to be unique, not a suburban strip program, operated by the U.S. Green Micah Hill, Dubach's partner and opera buildings are discovering that the costs can mall," Kosene said of the 11,000 square feet of Building Council, was originally designed tions manager, is more the hands-on energy- indeed pile up. That is perhaps one reason street-level space, which will also access to 26 off- for commercial properties, and has now efficiency guy. Furthermore, Hill knows why The Re-Development Group, which street parking spaces for their customers. been revamped for residential projects. that it's not enough to talk the talk - so The began with a focus on rehabbing old hous The five-story Maxwell building, located at 530 Re-Development Group takes part in gov The other, very similar, program - the es, is now spending more of its energies on E. Ohio St., will feature 105 units, ranging in size ernment- and industry-sponsored programs National Green Building Program - is new home construction, such as the nearly from 600 to 1,590 square feet. The building will which are closely monitored by on-site veri offered by the National Association of completed double residence at 1456-58 N. have a central courtyard with a fountain and patio. fication. Home Builders. Alabama St. in the Old Northside. Mark Kosene said several units have been Hill stressed that "green" building "It is important that people are held "People want energy-efficient homes," reserved. He also reported that interest continues to involves more than energy-efficiency The accountable," Hill said, "that it is more than said Dubach, adding that more potential be high in Kosene's De Soto townhome project process begins with lot development and words on a business card or sign." homeowners take active roles in the proj located immediately north of the Maxwell and site design, important to enable a house to One such program is Energy Star, a joint ects. "The question is, how do you do it within the Lockerbie Square Historic Preservation minimize its energy usage. Other ways venture of the U.S. Environmental cost-effective?" District. 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WWW. o.com MAY 2008 URBAN TIMES 21 $5usines s FortyFive0 coming in May to 757 Mass Ave HE IDEA OF LOCATING A Busi although Pritt plans to have the doors to "Maybe someone else could use the build merchants are actively involved in the Mass ness on Mass Ave makes perfect sense FortyFive0 open for a soft opening by the ing more efficiently than we do," said Meek, Ave Merchants Association. "Our goal," she Tto Cottage Home resident Bill Pritt, a middle of the month. the firm's vice-president of sales and a resi added, " is to create one unified unique Mass long-time restaurateur and owner of a Far dent of nearby Firehouse Square. His broth Ave. Right now that means working to get Northside sushi bar. ers, Gary and Dan, are also principals in the more people to not be afraid to cross College His belief in the worth of Mass Ave and The Snack Shop now company. and experience the edgy, exciting 800 block the power of Downtown residents and work open in Fletcher Place Modern Photo Offset also maintains ware of Mass Ave, too." ers will come to fruition this month when he house space in Louisville, space more func 0 unveils FortyFive ^FortyFive Degrees"), a WIDE VARIETY OF SNACKS - PLUS tional than the Indianapolis site. Meek said Tidbits... sushi bar, cocktail lounge and restaurant in Afree "wifi" internet connections - are that consideration, combined with the pending 757 Mass Ave at the corner of Massachusetts now available at a new Fletcher Place enter construction project to remove the Market hirty-five vendors are signed up for the and College avenues. prise known as The Snack Shoppe. Street interstate ramp plus Indiana's property 2008 season of the FARMERS' "Mass Ave is a good place for a business," Opened March 31 by Jess and Cindy Hart tax crisis, prompted the firm to explore sales T MARKET, which opens Wednesday, May 7, Pritt said. "People who live, work and con and their son, Jesse, The Snack Shop is locat possibilities. at the Indianapolis Farmers' Market. The duct business utilize the Avenue." He said ed at 937 E. East St. in the building shared by The company employs 16 people, down market will be open from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. that, whereas the Wholesale District relies on The Bosphorus Istanbul Cafe. from a high of 60 in the era before high-tech each Wednesday through October, on Market convention and major events traffic, he Customers will find plenty of snack items, nology. It was originally located on East Street between the City Market and the City- prefers the ambiance of Mass Ave. along with hot dogs, polish sausage and Washington St. just east of Interstate 65. The County Building. He said the Avenue gets some overflow smoked sausage, plus bottled drinks including main building on the current site is 18,000 business from conventions, business he won't tea and energy drinks, coffee and cappuccino. square feet in size, with the two smaller ich Beasley is now the sole owner/opera shun. But he didn't want to rely on conven Seating is available on three levels, plus two buildings being 4,000 and 5,000 square feet in tor of the hair salon located at 814 Ft. tion traffic to pay the rent. "I would rather landings. The top level features couches. size. R Wayne Ave., and has renamed the business rely on a local clientele," he said. "I'd rather The Snack Shoppe is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. BAMBOO HAIR DESIGN. Beasley previ build my business with the people who live Mondays through Fridays. here." East End merchants ously worked at the salon, formerly known as 0 Thairapy. He said he remains committed to FortyFive will be a multi-faceted opera unite for marketing the St. Joseph neighborhood location because tion, serving lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Modern Photo Offset of his neighbors, traffic flow and the free weekdays, and dinner seven days a week. considering a move HE BUSINESSES IN THE 800 BLOCK parking situation. Evening hours will be 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. of Mass Ave - commonly known as the T Beasley said he is working to re-tool the busi Mondays through Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m. to 3 HERE'S A FOR SALE SIGN ON THE East End - are working at what Jill Ditmire ness to fit his vision. An amateur photogra a.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, and 6 p.m. Side of Modern Photo Offset, a Cole- calls "inviting and affordable ways for the T pher, he is currently displaying his work on to 12:30 a.m. Sundays. Noble company which has been operating at East End merchants to let people know that the walls, but plans to bring in other local The enterprise will feature a full sushi bar 536 E. Market St. since 1967. But the long Mass Ave doesn't end at College Avenue." artists as well. He said the salon enjoys a with a sushi chef on site. The menu will be time Downtown company, founded in 1955 Ditmire, owner of Mass Ave Wine Shoppe, good walk-in traffic, but that he wants to pick filled with what Pritt calls "unique, healthy by the late Donald Meek, isn't in any hurry to said she and the other independent business up more appointment-based business. items, the kind of stuff I eat." The lunch move. owners with small marketing budgets have menu will feature sandwiches, including pita Ted Meek, one of three sons who now run joined together to create a logo and seek out sandwiches, and wraps, plus salads and pasta. the business, said changes in the industry advertising opportunities at costs affordable to NVOKE STUDIO, the yoga and pilates The dinner menu will include steak, chicken, have dramatically changed the amount of all. Istudio located in the St. Joseph neighbor shrimp and seafood dishes. space they use in the three-building complex "We most certainly are not separating our hood, has formed a relationship with Grand opening festivities are set for which totals about 27,000 square feet of selves from the rest of Mass Ave," Ditmire Yoga Works, one of the largest providers of Thursday through Saturday, May 22-24, space. said, pointing out that she and other East End Please turn to BUSINESS, page 56 • Six Over Meridian 2430-2432 N Illinois Street Vote May 6 Michael R. Cohen IPS School Board Vision: To build from strengths within IPS, increase respect for schools, teachers, students, their families, and the community, and foster excellence. Completely renovated 3 bedroom, 2 bath 141 S. Meridian Street, #402 Super chic, highly sophisticated 2,500 sq. ft. home located just south of the Ivy Tech Campus. filled with impressive upgrades. 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The Indianapolis interested in taking part, or getting more a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 17, with regis Department of Public Works has agreed to information on the dinners, should contact Jill placed on hold tration taking place at Davlan Park. About make regular pickups. Henry at [email protected] or 925-2958, 100 volunteers are needed to plant several A prototype trash bin, created by local or Carole Veatch at [email protected] ILEY AREA DEVELOPMENT hundred annuals and perennials in the 50-plus artist Chris Foster, is on display in the win or 927-9823. Corp.'s plan to build a four-story landscaping beds along Mass Ave. dow of the Davlan building next to Starbucks Rmixed-use building in the 800 block Breakfast and lunch will be provided. in the 400 block of Mass Ave. wo-way traffic has been established on of Mass Ave has hit a snag: Mayor Greg Interested persons are asked to contact the TMARKET STREET between Pine to Ballard, who declined to endorse the project. Riley Area office at 637-8996, extension 202. ork is still under way to bring free Arsenal streets just east of Interstate 65. Until Lacking an endorsement from the city, WWIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS the completion of the interstate ramp reloca Riley Area Executive Director Bill Gray he RECYCLED TRASH BINS slated to three "hotspot" outdoor zones in Mass Ave, tion project, the section of Market Street decided not to apply for low-income tax cred Tfor Mass Ave sidewalks won't be thanks to a program by the Indianapolis between Pine Street and College Avenue will its and affordable housing loans to support the installed until mid- to late-summer, due to Cultural Development Commission. Each of remain one-way. City officials said the change $9 million project. Gray said he hoped to delays in the awarding of a grant from the the city's six cultural districts are being fitted only impacts local traffic and is necessary for work with the Mayor's Office to secure sup Indiana Department of Environmental with equipment to offer the service. construction, residential and business port for the project. Management. Transmitters will be located on top of the access. Once the project is complete, Market The plan involves an underused one-story The $6,000 grant is still coming, said Davlan building in the 400 block and the Street will become two-way from the Circle building owned by the Center Township Kristin Kohn, owner of At Home in the Dean Johnson Design building in the 600 to Arsenal Street. Trustee's Office. That building would be City/Silver in the City and the driving force block; a suitable location is still being sought razed in favor of the multi-story structure behind the Mass Ave Merchants Association for the 800 block. owntown workers in need of convenient which would feature 25,000 square feet of project. That organization is providing about Dchild care are the target audience for the street-level retail space and 75 apartments, 62 $2,500 toward the project through the sale of A group of Downtown residents are now YMCA at the Athenaeum's first-ever of which would be reserved as "affordable recycled tote bags, available at a variety of XiLmeeting monthly to eat dinner together, SUMMER DAY CAMP. The nine-week housing" for people who work Downtown. Mass Ave merchants. 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Dr. Peter Maiers will talk Riley Museum Home, as well as the homes of conditioning the heart; aerobics, toning and ing for older children and the gymnasium was about the anatomy of the knee, conserva James and Marjorie Kienle and Bob and stretching are included. a "garden of eggs" (easy to find) by children tive measures of treatment prior to surgery, Helen Small. ages three and under. Easter-themed give • Country Line Dancing for beginners — and when it is time for surgery. aways and refreshments were served to every 9-10 a.m. Tuesdays beginning July 1. Oasis membership is free, although there he details are still being finalized on the one. • Exer-Start - 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays is a S15 registration charge per trimester, Tcreation of the MASS AVE URBAN beginning May 21. A low-impact class covering any number of classes. Call 965- DESIGN COMMITTEE, a grassroots group ocent-led tours of the HISTORIC which involves moving all parts of the 1773 for more information. • which will review projects proposed for the DATHENAEUM will be conducted on Mass Ave corridor to go before the Indiana Saturday, May 3, and Wednesday, May 7. polis Historic Preservation Commission. Interested persons should meet in the lobby of helping out on countless Mass Ave projects, is school's final project required by the Representation will include property owners, American Cabaret Theatre at 1 p.m. either stage manager for popular singer Jimmy International Baccalaureate Organization for merchants, and both the Chatham Arch and day. For further infonnation, please call 630- Buffett, a job he has had for 15 years. He has students completing the Primary Years Lockerbie Square neighborhood associations. 4569, extension 1, or email athfound@sbc- been working in that field since 1973. Programme. 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Stauffer career as the Boone County planning direc Continued from page 11 succeeds Wayne Patrick, who was replaced tor. professional because of his lack of attendance at monthly His term will run through Dec. 31, 2009. house was built as a single-family dwelling hearings. According to state statute, any He joins two other appointments since the around 1885, but sometime later the lot was takes seat commissioner absent from three consecutive start of 2008. Mike Garber of Lockerbie divided into two parcels with a house con meetings can be "treated as if he had Square and architect Dianna Brenner were structed along the alley, leaving the property on commission resigned." appointed to replace Steve Tuchman and at 1730 N. Talbott St. without enough space Stauffer, who took his seat at the IHPC's Sheriee Ladd, whose terms had expired. All for a detached garage. The petition was sup April 2 hearing, is a project manager work of the seats on the commission are appoint ported by the Herron-Morton Place Land Use ing for Keystone Construction Corp. He ed by the mayor. • Committee, as well as one set of adjacent property owners. • A petition for variances of the zoning A House will be constructed at 2008 Talbott St. in the Herron- ordinance to allow a former nursing home to be Morton Place Historic Preservation District. used as office space and for off-street parking to be allowed at 1910 N. Delaware St. and received approval to rezone 2.126 acres of land at 863 and 875 1909 and 1915 N. Talbott St. was continued to Massachusetts Ave, from I-3-U, an industrial zoning, to CBD-2, the May 7 hearing at the petitioner's request. which allows for more uses, including residential. The petition was first heard at the IHPC's February hearing, failing passage by a 4-2 neg ative vote, but falling short of the five neces St. Joseph sary votes to kill the matter. • April 2 IHPC hearing • A petition by Haus Architecture to extend the expiration Woodruff Place date of a previously approved Certificate of Appropriateness to modify plans for a three-story office building with roof deck at • April 2 IHPC hearing 975 N. Delaware St. was continued to the May 7 hearing. • Terrence and Lee Ann Harper were given approval to replace historic tile roof with a new tile roof of a different pattern at 680 Middle Drive. Chatham Arch / Mass Ave IHPC is located in Room 1801 of the City-County Building at 200 E. Washington Street. The general office number for the IHPC is 327-4406; the FAX number is 327-4407. A list of staff members • April 2 IHPC hearing telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and biographies can be • The Center Township Trustee's OfSce found at http://www.indygov.org/eGov/ City/DMD/ IHPC/staffhtm. • Zion Evangelical United Church of Christ Adult illiteracy a downtown neighborhood church at the corner of One affects your neighbors. North and New Jersey Streets Learn what you can do to help. Sign up for one of our upcoming free We invite you to VOLUNTEER ORIENTATIONS Five Thursday, May 1: 6-8pm join us for worship Saturday, May 3: 10am-Noon Adults Thursday, June 5: 6-8pm Saturday, June 7: 10am-Noon Informal, Blended Service ~ Sunday: 8 a.m. Who All orientations are held at Traditional Service ~ Sunday: 10:10 a.m. the Library Services Building. 2450 N. Meridian Live Call 275-4040 or email [email protected] to register! Bible Study ~ 1st Thursday: 12:30 p.m. Downtown Or, visit us at www.indyreads.org to find out more in the Capehart Room Indy Reads & of the Scottish Rite Building Urban Times are Corner of North and Meridian Streets building better neighborhoods Bring a friend Can't through literacy! For a calendar of Read opportunities call 639-5411 Urban - or - visit us on the web at Times www.zioneucc.org INDYREADS OPENING DOORS THROUGH ADULT LITERACY MAY 2008 MA URBAN TIMES ^O • 725 Dorman St. 556 Highland St. A 812 Oriental St. 1118 St. Clair St. •.•.938 Home tour to focus on Highland St. many aspects of Cottage Oriental St. Home's environment EOPLE WHO PARTAKE OF COTTAGE HOME'S upcoming Home and Garden Tour will understand HOME TOUR: MAY 17-18 Pwhere the neighborhood got its name, with 12 cozy The homes dwellings dating from the 19th Century standing ready for • 1223 E. 10th St. - Mark & Melissa Fisher inspection. • 1323 Polk St. - Nick and Barbara Frain. The home tour, however, will also illuminate the • 946 Stillwell St. - Laurie Silverman neighborhood's creative gardens - as well as special • 938 N. Highland Ave. - William & Kirsten VantWoud emphasis on the living spaces of Cottage Home's many • 812 N. Oriental St. -Tim Jensen. inhabitants, both people and animals. • 1118 E. St. Clair St. - Karen Horseman • 725 Dorman St. - Chuck McDonald. The home and garden tour will be Saturday and • 602 N. Highland Ave. - Mary Jane Moriarty Sunday, May 17-18, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. • 554 N. Oriental St. - Kyle Hendrix and Julie Rhodes Not only will tour- • 506 N. Oriental St. - Tyler and Laura Henderson. goers be able to visit • 556 N. Highland Ave. - Michael Tarr, Josh WooIIey and Jay the eclectic cottages Parks • 538 N. Highland Ave. - Matt Landini. selected to showcase the creative and diverse The gardens decorating styles of the • 961 N. Highland Ave. - Jim Crawford. neighborhood, they • 730 Dorman St. - Clay Bledsoe garden. will also be able to Q 714 N. Highland Ave. - Community Garden. • The Ruskaup Grocery and explore several Twilight Tour Reception only Tavern is currently under backyard habitats, the • Ruskaup/Ratcliffe House at 711 Dorman St. renovation. community garden, The Ruskaup/Ratcliffe • • Ruskaup Grocery and Tavern at 717 Dorman St. and new playground. House, residence of • 1323 Polk St. John Dugger and Becky Garland. Home and garden HOW TO GET TICKETS enthusiasts will see Tickets for the home tour, as well as the Twilight Tour restorations, complet Reception, are available in advance at Marsh Supermarkets, ed and in progress, Cit E Scapes, Midland Arts & Antiques Market, Fusek's True Special treats Value Hardware, and the Community Choice Federal Credit and meet home Union. await on owners happy to Tickets to the Twilight Tour Reception are $35 and include discuss their home's admission to the Saturday and Sunday home tour. Reser Twilight Tour history and share vations must be made by May 12. Tickets for the home and renovation stories and garden tour are $10 in advance, and will be available at each tips. home on the day of the event for $12. To pay electronically, e- HILE THE HOME admission to the weekend mail [email protected] or go to www.cottagehome.info. • and garden tour will home tour. (Deadline for reser Several of the A 1118 St. Clair St. Wfocus on cottages, a vations is May 12. See ticket homes have used green the Cottage Home Park. special Twilight Tour Reception information at right.) The building techniques and feature yards certified by the The tour not only draws attention to the revitalization will be conducted on Friday, reception will feature wine and National Wildlife Federation as Backyard Wildlife taking place in Cottage Home, but it is also the urban May 16, the eve of the tour, hors d'oeuvres created by chef Habitats. neighborhood's major fund-raiser for the year. Last year giving people a chance to tour Rebecca Hostetter and music Throughout the weekend visitors can sample fabulous the historic and stately by the Tonos Triad. homemade refreshments while listening to live music in Please turn to HOME TOUR, page 56 • Ruskaup/Ratcliffe House. The Ruskaup/Ratcliffe That evening only, from 6 to House, owned by John Dugger 9 o'clock, the historic structure and Becky Garland, is consid will be open along with its ered the grand dame of the next-door neighbor, the Cottage Home neighborhood. Ruskaup Grocery and Tavern, Frederick Ruskaup, a German the 1870s brick store currently immigrant, built the adjacent undergoing restoration. brick grocery and tavern in Tickets for the Twilight Tour Please turn to TWILIGHT, Reception are $35, and include page 56 • • For descriptions of the homes and gardens on the tour, see the Cottage Home newsletter, page 55 • The garden of Jim Crawford. A The Cottage Home Community Garden. MAY 2008 29 URBAN TIMES Fabulous Finds Downtown Taking Backup Offers 9£x£ V^\tS Lett 1462 N. Linwood Ave. 1005 N. Alabama St. 1110 E. Washington #6021 920 N. Broadway St. 2123 N. Delaware Amazing! This 2-bedroom Little Four thoughtfully built condos. 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THE NATIONAL BANK^NDIANAPOLIS 261-9000 DOWNTOWN ONEAMERICA TOWER MERIDIAN-KESSLER 107 North Pennsylvania Street One American Square 49th and Pennsylvania Street The Indiana State Museum, which opened in 2002, was built around the IMAX Theatre, which opened in 1996 along the extended An urban state park coming into full bloom Central Canal. • People flocking to White River State Park and its many amenities HE TERM "STATE PARK" CONJURES UP eastern edge of the Indianapolis Zoo. City of Indianapolis is responsible for the Central Canal Indianapolis Children's Choir, with other installments visions of fall foliage, of welcoming woods, of Bob Whitt, the park's executive director, explained it from West Street to the Indiana Government Center, and including such performers as Dance Kaleidoscope, Tdeer, of grasslands and hillocks and hiking trails. this way: "This is like a mall, with anchor tenants and then its nine-block run straight north to 1 lth Street.) Asante Children's Theatre, and the Indianapolis Opera. A fire in the great room at the inn. we're the landlord." Those anchor tenants include the Last year, three million people visited White River Anyone making it to Celebration Plaza - marked on But there is one state park, just one, where the aes zoo, the Indiana State Museum, Eiteljorg Museum of State Park - not counting the countless throngs who the east by the "Totem" sculpture - will probably be thetics are not nearly so bucolic, where sculpture American Indians and Western Art, and Victory Field, walked the Canal or attended the many unticketed drawn to the Old Washington Street Bridge by more replaces trees and where museums replace lodges, where home of the Indianapolis Indians. events. They came for the many events hosted by the sculptures, part of the juried Sculpture in the Park pro the waterway features not canoes but paddleboats, and Whitt and his staff are responsible for the green park's major tenants, but also for the 91 events hosted by gram which occupies the pedestrian bridge which spans where a canal walk substitutes for the footpath. spaces of the park, while also doing a lot of "cross-polli White River State Park. "From small weddings to the White River leading to the Indianapolis Zoo and It is White River State Park, an amenity which stands nation" marketing and promotion. SkyConcert, and everything in between," said Whitt. White River Gardens. unique in Downtown Indianapolis, the result of an idea The state park also includes Military Park, a space They came for the Concerts on the Lawn series, The historic bridge is a key factor in the park's devel dating nearly back half a century but only now coming which dates to the very foundation of the city and which which in its four previous summers has hosted such opment. From 1833, a bridge stood at that site, carrying into full bloom. Geographically, White River State Park is in fact protected by the Indiana Constitution. The park luminaries as Bob Dylan; the Allman Brothers Band; travelers on the nation's first major highway, the encompasses 250 acres beginning at West Street and also includes the Central Canal - at least the part of it Lyle Lovett; the Indigo Girls; Crosby, Stills and Nash; National Road. The current bridge opened in 1916, car extending westward to White River Parkway, on the which runs from West Street to the White River. (The and Allison Krause. This year's lineup, not fully com rying vehicles until 1994, when Washington Street (U.S. plete, features such names as Death Cab for 40) was rerouted southward to clear the way for a more Cutie, Weird Al Yankovic, and ex-Monkee Davy consolidated park space. Jones. "That was a stroke of genius," Whitt said. "Moving • Some thoughts on state But there's more this year, as White River Washington Street really made the park. Without that, it parks from the editor State Park launches a new summer series in the wouldn't have the feel it has." / page 58 Celebration Plaza Amphitheatre, a grassy, ter The ambiance would also have been quite different raced incline located along the White River had earlier visions for the state park come to fruition. between the end of the Central Canal and the Early planners foresaw a Midwest version of Tivoli Old Washington Street Bridge. The free, eclectic Gardens, Copenhagen's amusement park and garden White River State Park series opens June 14 with a perfonnance by the space. Knotts Berry Farm was approached to bring a • White River State Park is composed of 250 acres of land on both sides of the White River in Downtown Indianapolis. Major components • Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, the nation's first memorial dedicat • Indiana State Museum, dedicated to ed to recipients of the Congressional Medal of «• telling the state's story in high-tech, high-touch Honor. exhibits chronicling Indiana's past, present and • Dr. Frank P. Lloyd Sr. Visitor's Center, Moving Washington Street really made the park. future. opened in April 2003 to serve as a respite, Without that, it wouldn't have the feel it has." • IMAX Theater, boasting the largest shopping venue and restroom for park visitors. screen in the state, showing 3-D and 2-D • Sculpture in the Park, an array of public movies on a six-story screen. art standing on the bridge, as the result of a Bob Whitt • Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians biennial juried competition. and Western Art, one of only two museums • Celebration Plaza, a grassy amphiteater east of the Mississippi River with Native sitting along White River between the Canal American art and cultural objects, as well as Walk and Old Washington Street Bridge . Summer series Western paintings and bronzes. • Central Canal, built in 1996 as an in Celebration • Indianapolis Zoo and White River extension of the historic Central Canal, running Gardens, featuring nearly 350 species of ani from the Indiana Government Center at West Amphitheatre mals and almost 18,000 plant speciments, Street and emptying into the White River. along with one of the country's few totally Performances are scheduled two enclosed, environmentally controlled dolphin • Pumphouse, a restored water pumping Saturdays a month from June through pavilions. station which began operation in 1871 and pro September. vided the first public water service for the city. • NCAA Headquarters and Hall of • June 14 - Indianapolis Children's It now features displays on the park's develop Choir concert. 2:30 p.m. Champions, featuring an array of interactive ment , as well as history of the water company, displays, three theater presentations and other and also serves as the offices of the White • June 28 - Indianapolis Chamber exhibits to celebrate champions of all 23 sports River State Park Development Commission. Orchestra with Grammy Award-winning in the NCAA's three competitive divisions. children's artist Bill Harley, 2:30 p.m. • River Promenade, a walkway lined with • July 12 - Orquestra Bravo! 1 p.m. • Victory Field, home of the Indianapolis trees and evergreens on the west bank of the Indians and considered one of the best, if not White river, offering great views of the water as • July 26 - Dance Kaleidoscope family the best, minor league baseball field in well as the city's skyline. performance at 8 p.m. America. • Aug. 2 - Shakespeare on the Canal, • Memorial Overlook, located on the East with "The Merchant of Venice" performed Bank of the White River next to the And ... by the Heartland Actors' Repertory Pumphouse, and dedicated to four community Theatre. 2:30 p.m. • Military Park, once a Civil War encamp leaders who died Sept. 11, 1992, en route to • Aug. 23 - Asante Children's Theatre. ment and training field, and site of the first Columbus, Ohio, on White River State Park 2:30 p.m. Indiana State Fair and first documented Fourth business. They are Michael A. Carroll, Frank i£££ WHITE RIVER STATE PARK of July celebration. It is now a constitutionally E. McKinney Jr., Robert V. Welch and John R. • Sept. 13 - Indianapolis Opera in the MORE TO DO THAN YOU EVER KNEW protected 14-acre site used for festivals and Weliever. Park, featuring familiar opera hits, the best celebrations. • National Federation of High School of Broadway and musical highlights from Associations headquarters, housed in the Indianapolis Opera's upcoming season. • Old Washington Street Bridge, built in 2:30 p.m. 1833 on the old National Road, and renovated restored Acme-Evans Grain Mill's superinten • Sept. 26 - The Quebe Sisters Band: as a pedestrian crossing when Washington dent's building adjacent to the NCAA A WestFest Celebration Concert. 5 p.m. • Street was diverted south to allow for the cre Headquarters and the Central Canal. Last year, over three million people came to White River State Park and its ation of White River State Park. • Segway of Indiana Tours, a two-wheel A Celebration Amphitheatre sits between • Governor's Lawn, a grassy amphithe motorized way to tour White River State Park. the west end of the Canal and the Old ater opened in August 2003 and seating up to • Wheel Fun Rentals, with bicycle and main venues - and that doesn't count the folks who just walk the Canal Washington Street Bridge. 5,000 people. fringe surrey rentals for park users. • MAY 2008 32 URBAN TIMES COVER STORY • theme park feel to the urban space. In 1980, world-famous architect Cesar Pelli designed a 750- foot obelisk to be placed in the park. Derisively labeled "the Corncob," the plan was rejected as «• being too rural in nature; Pelli would go on to design Petronas Towers, the world's tallest build ing. We're always looking But planners would go in another direction. The Indianapolis Zoo opened in 1980, the Eiteljorg in for ways to add interest 1989. Victory Field would open in 1996 to rave and visitations, as reviews as the best minor league ballpark in America, and the fans would come - they would long as we can retain surely come — every year thereafter. (Editor's our green space. aside: White River State Park, as the landlord, manages all the park's greenspace — except the best It's always greenspace of all, the hallowed pasture between the a balancing act." foul lines, where poetry is written throughout every summer. That's Indians grounds crew territory.) That same year, the IMAX theater would open, six years ahead of the Indiana State Museum which would eventually surround it. In 1999 came the Bob Whitt Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial as well Since its opening in 2003, the Governor's Lawn has attracted throngs to hear such groups as Bob as White River Gardens, and in 2000 came the ^^^^ Dylan, Lyle Lovett and The Indigo Girls. NCAA national headquarters and its own museum, the Hall of Champions. Whitt reports directly to the governor. The idea, Whitt said, ly split about its development: "Some want a nice quiet place The result, said no less an observer than The New York goes back to the mayoral days of Dick Lugar, who recognized to stroll," he said. "Others want it to be like San Antonio's Times: "Indianapolis's version of the Mall in Washington." two things: the potential for the Downtown area along the River Walk," a vibrant, restaurant- and flora-lined route Whitt, meanwhile, focuses on the daily issues of maintain White River to become a park, and the city's inability to pull through the historic Texas city. ing the state park's infrastructure. The most recent and most off the project. In those days, the area residents now play in The San Antonio route is not Whitt's choice, although he high-profile task: cleaning the canal, a joint effort of the city was home to a grain silo, a meat packing plant, warehouses envisions adding a few more amenities "without affecting the and White River State Park. That project was more typical of and a stockyards (on the zoo side of the river). The Beveridge quite serenity of the place. We're always looking for ways to the state's only urban state park. Paper Co. factory was the last to go. add interest and visitations," he said, "as long as we can retain The park is operated by the White River State Park As the evolution of the Downtown space continues, Whitt our green space. It's always a balancing act." Commission, established in 1979. Unlike every other state keeps a wary eye on balance. Evidence is a continual debate - Bill Brooks park, it is not within the Department of Natural Resources; over the Central Canal. Whitt said that people are fairly even All kinds. All cultures. When will we meet you? BANK An Episcopal church always welcoming dowtown residents and beyond. JOIN US FOR FIRST FRIDAY (FRIDAY. MAY 2) FEATURING THE 2ND INSTALLMENT OF "ROBBING THE BANK" Sundays ~ 8 a.m. ~ 9 a.m. & 11 1 a WITH LUKE AUSTIN DAUGHTERY ~ Holy Eucharist ~ "LIVE MUSIC" ~ 1 p.m. Santa Eucaristfa THE RETURN OF hrist # Free parking in Chase garage. Bring ticket to service. "ROD-MAN" iBEBa Check www.cccindv.oridy.orsg tofor complete weekly SCRATCH ART CATHEDRAL schedule. www.cccindy.org 125 Monument Circle ~ Indianapolis, IN FIRST FRIDAY AFTERPARTY 46204 The Very Rev. Stephen E. Carlsen FROM 8-1 o Dean and Rector 811 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE MAY 2008 AQ URBAN TIMES wO COVER STORY Here's something Then and now: a timeline fosmife about... • 1822 - The city's first documented Fourth of July celebration is presented in what is now known as Military Park. • 1836 - Development of the Central Canal begins. • 1852 - First state fair conducted in Military Park. • 1861 - Military Park used as a Civil War encampment. 1?ersonafized • 1870 - The Pumphouse opens, providing pressurized water for drinking and fire protection to the city of Indianapolis. The facility also spurs industrial development along the riverbank. • 1913 - A devastating flood kills 200 people, prompting the construction of concrete dentisfry floodwalls and earthen levees. • 1916 - Washington Street Bridge opens as part of the National Road. • 1950s - City officials begin re-examining White River and its potential for waterfront development. fifcfiyou 've • 1960s - Factories along Washington Street begin moving out, pushed in part by the growth of IUPUI. • 1969 - Indianapolis Water Co. closes the Pumphouse. never • 1976 - Pumphouse and surrounding property, in excessive disrepair after being abandoned, is gifted to the city. • 1979 - The Indiana General Assembly creates a 10-member, governor-appointed White River State Park Development Commission, which initiates such actions as the relocation of kadbefore Washington Street and the gradual land acquisition of deteriorating factories and property. • 1988 - The Indianapolis Zoo opens. • 1989 - The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art opens. • 1994 - Renovation of the Washington Street Bridge begins. Tracey Tabor Williams, • 1996 - Victory Field opens. D.M.D. • 1996 - The $20 million extension of the Central Canal from West Street to White River is completed. • 1996 - The IMAX 3D theater opens, the first such facility in the state. 303 N. Alabama St., • 1999 - The Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial is dedicated. Ste. 270 • 1999 - The Sculpture in the Park exhibit opens on the Washington Street Bridge. • 2000 - The NCAA Hall of Champions opens. • 2002 - The Indiana State Museum opens. 317-637-4636 • 2003 - The Visitor's Center, Governor's Lawn and oval are opened, at the completion of ss—Kfet-.' £_&-_$__ *Sli#l The Villa inn • restaurant • spa Finally, an honest-to-goodness art scene in Indianapolis. Now go support it. Rise ana dine witn sou music, auenutive service and delicious dishes, all in a peacuful sunlit dining room. The most important meal of the day, is also the mosl relaxing, at the Villa. First Friday Art Tour Every month. Every First Friday. MONDAY-FRIDAY 7A.M. 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The cook en, condiments, and some soft drinks. P.O. Box 441125, Indianapolis IN 46204 out and pitch-in, where neighbors can Neighbors are asked to bring a to be held kick back and get to know each other, favorite dish, based on their last name The next meeting of the Chatham Arch is set for Saturday, May 17, in the initial: A-H - salads, I-R - casseroles, Neighborhood Association is: Firefighters Union Hall. S-Z - desserts. Neighbors may also 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, Saturday, The event includes activities for bring beverages of their choice. people of all ages, plus a silent The Block Party will run from 6 to at the Firefighters' Hall. auction featuring items provided by 10 p.m. Neighbors will enter the May 17 local merchants and other Indianapolis Firefighters Union Hall from the St. Visit our website at: businesses. Proceeds go to Chatham Clair Street entrance, just west of www.ChathamArch.org Arch Neighborhood Association MassAve. • Board of Directors Larry Cleaver, president, 632-1476, [email protected] Don Elliott, vice-president, 822-8455, [email protected] Christy Shaffer, secretary, 681-9553, [email protected] Peggy Cranfill, treasurer, 955-9570, [email protected] Home tour taking shape, Ryan Brady, 916-2460, [email protected] Walter Bartz, 321-9687,[email protected] Laura Bauman, 632-4745, [email protected] Joseph Cohil, 607-8505, [email protected] but more venues are sought John Davis, 631-6118, [email protected] Gary Pike, 638-2875, [email protected] RUCE TRYON BELIEVES A penthouse Bruce Tryon, 917-0866, [email protected] the lineup for the 2008 Chatham in 757 Mass Urban Design Committee: Mark Porteous, chair, 822-3856, moporte- Ave will be Arch "City Canvas" Home Tour [email protected]; Walter Bartz; Jeff Cowsert; Tom Elkas; Tom B one of the is already strong - but the home tour Harton; Larry Jones; Tom Jones; John Kinsella; Michael Koslow; Greg highlights of Larkin; Clayton Miller; Lynn Pike; Emily Rothstein; Gary Stage; Meg chairman wants to add more homes to the "City Storrow; Steve Thornton; Bruce Tryon. the list. Canvas" IHPC representative: Tom Jones,634-0508, [email protected]. "We have a good mix of residences home tour set Newsletter contact: Kim Lucas, 634-4524, [email protected] so far, including one of the penthouse for Saturday Webmaster: Jeff Schroeder, 266-9430, [email protected] units in the Beilouny building at 757 and Sunday, Monthly agenda and minutes available on CANA Yahoo Group: Mass Ave and a converted warehouse on Oct. 11-12, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chathamarch/ Park Avenue," he said. "We also have a in Chatham Arch. couple of restored homes and a new home which was the last home built by Chatham Arch Foundation longtime Chatham Arch resident Tom Board of Directors Jones." Steve Tegarden, president, 917-0396, [email protected] But he would like the list to be about Blake Jeffery, Vice-President, 951-7181, [email protected] twice as long as it is now. Tom Elkas, Secretary, 236-9731, [email protected] Teresa Harvey, Treasurer, 631-5470, [email protected] "The home tour committee is always Trent Cowels, 201-6501, [email protected] interested in speaking with interested Lisa Larkin, 632-0309, [email protected] Chatham Arch residents about being on Kim Lucas, 634^.524, [email protected] the tour," Tryon said. "Your home doesn't have to be perfect - and if you've recently bought a fixer upper or I Mitral •,. have plans for an addition, tour-goers Association will host a dinner party on and regional art that many of our home Spring Clean-up: May 31 like to see your ideas. Saturday night for the participating owners have been fortunate enough to The "City Canvas" home tour is homeowners, who will then be able to own," Tryon said. EIGHBORS ARE BEING ENCOURAGED TO scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Oct. visit other homes on the tour. He can be contacted at brucetryon Nvolunteer their time and energy on Saturday, May 11-12, from 1 to 5 p.m. each day. The "With the 'City Canvas' theme, we'll @gmail.com or 917-0866 for additional 31, for the Chatham Arch spring clean-up. Volunteers Chatham Arch Neighborhood be showing off some of the great local information about the home tour. • will gather at 9 a.m. at the corner of 9th and Broadway streets for goodies and coffee. Lunch will be provided, as well, after the clean-up. A dumpster and supplies are What I saw on the news today being provided by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. • BY DON ELLIOTT future mass transit to and from our area, safety and crime, Arch and Lockerbie Square historic neighborhoods. Residents how we are able to help one another and our neighbors, the of these and other Downtown neighborhoods have been very OME MORNINGS I AM LUCKY BECAUSE I GET Indy Fringe Festival, and many other topics which affect our supportive of the many local restaurants, galleries, theaters, to sit down and wrap my hands around a cup of coffee lives. retailers and other businesses. What I saw on the news today Sand watch a bit of local news before I leave my home. This group - known as MAMA (Massachusetts Avenue reminded me of how fortunate we are to be a close-knit Today was one of those mornings. I think I tuned out Merchants Association) - has worked for years to help make community, to be able to call each other by our first names anything bad that happened in Indianapolis and concentrated Mass Ave the vibrant cultural district it is today. Membership and to be able to work and live in such a special part of on the live interview with Elizabeth Garber of The Best is open to any business that is on or close to Mass Ave. The Indianapolis. • Chocolate in Town, located on Mass Ave. new membership drive will be kicked off with the biennual I'll mention that, of course, at the merchant's meeting later publishing of MAMA's Mass Ave map in the next couple of in the morning. Once a month, business owners gather to dis months. Elliott owns The Franklin Barry Gallery and The Frame cuss upcoming events, marketing the Avenue, recycling, The merchants especially enjoy being part of the Chatham Shop, located at 617 MassAve. MAY 2008 A£ URBAN TIMES JO News from the Ransom Place Record Ransom Place Neighborhood Ransom Place Neighborhood Association 830 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202 The next meeting of the Ransom Place Neighborhood Association is: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 19 at Greater Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church Committee meetings begin at 10 a.m. Ransom Place Neighborhood Association meetings serve as an open forum for all residents of and businesses in the Ransom Place area. Ransom Place is bounded by St. Clair Street to the south, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street to the east, 10th Street to the north, and Paca Street to the west. Please join us as we strive to become one of downtown's premier neighborhoods. Send questions or inquiries to: [email protected] Learn more about the Historic Ransom Place Neighborhood atwww.ransomplace.org Newsletter contact: Send emails to: A The museum has told the historic school's unique story — and more — since opening in May 1998. [email protected] 2007 Board of Directors Crispus Attucks Museum under renovation Beryl Borel, president, [email protected] NDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS parents and the general public. The Fame, honors the Crispus Attucks teams Randy Jones, vice-president, [email protected] has launched a renovation project at museum - currently closed during the and players of the 1950s. Twyla Cecil, secretary, [email protected] ICrispus Attucks Medical Magnet renovation - will feature a dedicated Those familiar with Hoosier basket Theresa Crawford, treasurer, [email protected] School - a building which is more than and enhanced entrance on the south side ball lore know that Attucks was home to Ladonna Sloan, immediate past president, a school. The historic structure near of the school and also a new roof. the legendary Oscar Robertson. In 1955, [email protected] Ransom Place also houses a museum Museum exhibits will sport new signage the Attucks' Tigers beat Gary Roosevelt, with three galleries and over 60 exhibits and an expanded gift shop will be 97-74, to become the first all-black Membership dedicated to the history of the school added. school in the country to win a state title Membership: Annual dues at $10 per household member and community. in an integrated sport and the first and $25 for associate members. Please send us your name, Gallery I gives recognition to the address, telephone and email information. Make checks The IPS Crispus Attucks Museum Crispus Attucks High School story and Indianapolis school to win the state bas payable to Ransom Place Neighborhood Association, was conceived in 1986 as a compromise explores major events and the breadth ketball title. 830 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202. to closing the school. It was unofficially of student achievement. The former Crispus Attucks High New associate members will be listed on the opened in 1997 with the dedication of School - which produced many alumni Ransom Place website. Gallery II recognizes the African the Tuskegee Airmen Exhibit. The grand who now call Ransom Place home - diaspora along with local, state, national opening was held in May 1998. was named for one of the first known and international history. The museum is considered an educa casualties in America's fight for inde tional facility open to students, faculty, Gallery III, the Basketball Hall of pendence. • Resident students take part in April's neighborhood meeting July or August opening targeted FFICIALS OF THE RANSOM PLACE NEIGHBOR- Ohood Association join with other residents in extending their thanks to the resident students who took part in the for new Indiana Avenue eatery neighborhood meeting on Saturday, April 19. ON FISHER AND MARK wrought iron and concrete second-floor Students were invited to participate in the meeting and all Jacob, along with two other terrace which will seat dozens to enjoy future meetings as long-term residents seek to build a stronger Dbusiness partners, are working warm summer sun and breezes. With relationship with the students in the area. Association officials to bring some more "Zing" to Indiana total seating capacity of nearly 160, the said they forward to having other opportunities to celebrate Avenue with the complete renovation of partners hope Zing will become another the presence of IUPUI students in the neighborhood, "and the former Payton's Place restaurant at destination restaurant in the Indiana wish them well in all of their endeavors." • Indiana Avenue and West Street. Avenue Cultural District, along with the The new contemporary restaurant Creation Cafe and Tavern at the Temple will capitalize on the "small plate" revo at the recently renovated Buggs Temple, Connie Zeigler lution going on in dining. The name - and the well-established Bourbon Street Historian / Writer Zing - means, among other things, Distillery. 317.755.9041 "vitality and zest," the business partners Jacob is also owner of the highly Historic Preservation Cultural Resources Management said. They believe the term perfectly successful Salvatore's restaurant on the Architectural History describes the eclectic spirit of both past city's Northwest side. He describes the • Zing will occupy the vacant Indiana conmejz(a!gmail.com and present Indiana Avenue. latest venture as dining with a myriad of Avenue building last used by Payton's The tentative opening is scheduled in small plates to share that promotes a Place. late July or August of this year, the own more relaxed, social environment. It is everyone, he explained. ers said. Both lunch and dinner will be an experience, not just a meal, he said. The partners are currently seeking a served as well as late night samplers and The cost for the 'small plates' will range head chef and hope to have staff in desserts. from a couple of dollars to just under place by late June. • Workers are currently busy adding a $10, so there will be something for MAY 2008 36 URBAN TIMES gpfcer&ie ^letter News from historic Lockerbie Square EW NEIGHBORS WITHIN All neighborhood residents are invited Lockerbie Square 'Welcome to the NLockerbie Square - and especially to the event to meet and greet the new those in the De Soto townhome project neighbors. The event is a pitch-in, with People's Club - are invited to attend the annual residents asked to bring an appetizer, Neighborhood' "Welcome to the Neighborhood" party snack, salad or dessert. The next meeting of the on Saturday, May 17. The party is being organized by the party set for The party will be from 6 to 9 p.m. in Lockerbie Square People's Club. Lockerbie Square People's Club is: the commons area behind the houses in Volunteers are urged to contact Mike 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 13 the 400 block of Fulton Street just north Arnold for assignments, flyer composi Saturday, May 17 of School 9. Last year's event was a tion and distribution, setup and cleanup. in the Indianapolis Senior Center, 708 E. Michigan St. spectacular success, thanks to the The 400 block of Fulton Street is Fulton Street residents who are hosting just off Michigan Street, two blocks Learn more about the Lockerbie Square People's again this year. east of College Avenue. • Club at: www.lockerbiesquare.org CONTACT YOUR BOARD MEMBERS Residents wishing to place business on the monthly agenda are encouraged to contact any member of the Bicycle lanes to expand parking Board of Directors prior to its regular meetings — the last Monday of each month, just over two weeks before each People's Club meeting: times on Michigan and New York Board of Directors Mike Arnold, president, 955-1633 ([email protected]) USH-HOUR PARKING RE- to have a calming affect on traffic. He Steve Wagman, treasurer, 580-2121 strictions will be removed along said city officials only hope that traffic ([email protected]) Michigan and New York streets will actually be slowed to the posted R Dorothy llgen, secretary, 917-1703 as part of the bicycle lanes being limit, which commuters now largely ([email protected]) installed later this summer. ignore. Bill Kingston, vice-president, 631-2007 That word came from Andy Lutz, (Rush hour restrictions will remain ([email protected]) senior project manager for the on those two streets in the core of Tom Ulsas, vice-president, 634-2147 Indianapolis Bicycle Facility Downtown, west of Delaware Street.) ([email protected]) Improvement Program, which will add Lutz said the bicycle plan has been Tony Morreale, vice-president, 267-9038 bicycle lanes to those two major arteries developed in close cooperation with ([email protected]) from White River east to Arlington local bicycling organizations, but he Marjorie Kienle, vice-president, 917-2275 ([email protected]) Avenue, and including Pleasant Run also added, "We can't guarantee with Parkway. one hundred percent certainty that these Speaking at the April 8 meeting of are going to work." the Lockerbie Square People's Club, He noted that $25,000 has been set Church and neighborhood Lutz said bids on the $120,000 project aside for public education efforts, in should be awarded in July, with work to cooperation with the Indianapolis collaborate for homeless begin in late July or early August. He Bicycle Coalition and IndyParks' said the work will go quickly and Greenways program. He said television ONATIONS OF CLOTHING AND HOUSEHOLD should be completed by fall. • The placement of the bicycle lane and radio advertising would be used to items are being sought by the Lockerbie Homeless between the parking and traffic has help educate motorists about how to co Initiative, a collaboration between the Lockerbie Although Lockerbie residents were drawn concern from some residents — D Square People's Club and Lockerbie Central United encouraged by the idea that the south but planners say the strategy is in exist with bicyclists, and that brochures Methodist Church. side of New York Street and the north keeping with well-tested programs in have been developed to further than side of Michigan Street would become Chicago and Portland, Ore. effort. City officials are also working Grady Chism, one of the Lockerbie neighbors serving on 24-hour parking areas, many residents with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to the effort, reported at the neighborhood's April 8 meeting on were concerned by the design which develop a bicycle education component. progress made by the group, formed to establish a conduit rated into the Indianapolis plan. between Lockerbie and the church, which has been very calls for the bicycle lane to be located In addition to the striped bicycle "We picked their brains on the mis active on homeless issues. between a parking lane and driving lane. lanes, the program also includes the takes they made," he said of Chicago Chism said several neighbors have volunteered at the Lutz said the Indianapolis plan was and Portland officials, "so we don't installation of 225 bicycle parking racks in the Downtown area. church's monthly "Hot Meal Without a Bill," conducted the adopted using the main principles of the make the same mistakes. We have tried third Saturday of each month. He said the event attracts Chicago bicycle plan, considered to be to adjust them to our city." Eighty percent of the project funding the prototype of such plans. He said He said driving lanes will be nar comes from the federal government, the Please turn to HOMELESS, page 37 • principles developed in Portland, Ore., rowed slightly to allow for the bicycle rest from the city. The 2008 project is were also studied. He said both cities' lane. That narrowing, plus the return of phase one of a larger program to pro M NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES experiences were studied and incorpo- parking during rush hours, are expected mote bicycling in the city. • IN MEMORY: Nancy Smith, past president Clean-up set for May 3 NEIGHBORHOOD SPRING CLEAN-UP IS SCHEDULED UNERAL SERVICES WERE E. Vermont St. She retired in 1999. husband, Matt, and Marcey with her for Saturday, May 3. A dumpster is expected to be located in conducted April 11 for Nancy C. She is survived by her husband of 51 husband, Norman Theaman, and two A the neighborhood. More information will be distributed within Smith, a long-time Lockerbie daughters, Tatum and Madeline. A third F years, Dick, also a long-time communi the neighborhood prior to the event. resident and past two-term president of ty volunteer. The couple moved to daughter, Stacey, resides on the near the Lockerbie Square People's Club. Lockerbie Square in the mid-1980s. Northside.. ong-time neighborhood resident PAM MOORE has been Nancy died April 6 at the age of 75. Two of their three daughters, Marcey Services were conducted at Leppert Lelected to the Lockerbie People's Club Board of Directors, Nancy, who also served as People's Smith and Camme McEllhiney, continue Mortuary's Nora Chapel. Memorial con filling the vacancy created by the recent resignation of Bill Club secretary and vice-president, was to operate the billing and accounting tributions may be made to the Lockerbie Kingston. the founder of Medical Billing and business. Marcey and Camme both Square Foundation, P.O. Box 44410, Pam has been active in neighborhood activities for many Accounting, in Lockerbie Square at 638 reside in Lockerbie, Camme with her Indianapolis IN 46244-0410. • years, including production of the Lockerbie Directory. • MAY 2008 *+•] URBAN TIMES wf MORE: THE LOCKERBIE LETTER Historic barn to get a makeover HOMELESS Continued from page 36 PROPOSED RENOVATION AND EXPAN- sion of one of the few historic barns left in Athe Downtown area has been endorsed by the homeless people, including families, who are Lockerbie Square People's Club. given a ticket at the door allowing them to eat as The barn - once used to shelter horses - sits well as "shop" for clothing and other items. behind the historic cottage at 331 N. ParkAve., now Donations of clothing, therefore, are always need owned by John Hendren. The cottage was built as a ed. rental unit in 1868; the barn is believed to date to the The group is also involved in an effort to 1880s, or earlier. move homeless people into transitional housing. Hendren was represented at the April 8 meeting of Chism said donations of household items, from the neighborhood association by Pat Jacobs of cups and glasses to furniture, are needed to help Jacobs-Pannicke Architects. Jacobs said Hendren that project. Volunteers are available to pick up values the historic nature of the structure which sits items at the donors' doors, he said. Anyone inter at the rear of his lot, facing the alley. But he also ested in donating can contact Chism at wants covered parking for two vehicles. [email protected] or the church at 637-2716. Jacobs said there are three problems - the barn is Anyone interested in helping staff the monthly not deep enough for a vehicle; it is not wide enough hot meal program can also contact Chism or the for two vehicles; and it lacks a foundation. The build church. ing sits on three layers of brick. Other members of the Lockerbie Homeless Originally, Jacobs had hoped to temporary elevate Initiative are Lockerbie neighbors Leah Cody, the barn so a foundation could be built. That not Beckie Schafer and Aimee Zoeller; Lockerbie being possible because of the barn's timber construc neighbor and church member Roy Hedeen; the tion, another plan was developed to dismantle the Rev. Chad Abbott, pastor of Lockerbie Central barn piece by piece, lay the foundation, and then United Methodist Church; and Mark Little, a carefully reassemble the barn. church member who runs the Earth House The historic barn would be moved to the north Coffeehouse at the church and publishes the One edge of the lot so that a new addition could be added Paycheck Away newspaper for the homeless. to the south, making the finished product suitable for Chism said the transitional housing effort is two vehicles. led by Glenda Hoffman, who manages the month Jacobs said the historic brick floor will be ly hot meal program. She has noted the problem returned. A unique staircase to a small half-story faced by homeless people who have found jobs, upper level will be re-used, in a different location. but still lack the credit rating or cash-on-hand to The owner plans on using the upper level as a den- rent an apartment. To that end, she has led the type space. The interior will feature the same purchase of three homes on the city's Eastside, exposed rafters now in place. one of which has been rehabbed into transitional The petition to allow for the renovation is on the housing. agenda for the May 7 meeting of the Indianapolis The group is also concerned about the impact Historic Preservation Commission. • Mayor Greg Ballard's recently announced pan handler initiative will have on the neighborhood as homeless people are pushed out of the central The historic Lockerbie Square barn business district. 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Keith Kriesel, Pastor Located in the Lockerbie area. 878 Massachusetts Avenue Carolyn Ramsey, Outreach Minister MAY 2008 38 URBAN TIMES MCRIDIAn PARK MIRR9R Historic Mapleton-Fall Creek neighbors Meridian Park Neighborhood Association connected by shared interests The Meridian Park Mirror is published monthly within the Urban Times by the Historic Meridian Park Neighborhood Last of three forums scheduled for Monday, May 12 Association. Block Captains distribute the newsletter to the approximately 250 homes and 1000 residents. EOPLE WHO RESIDE IN THE MAPLETON-FALL CREEK AREA ARE FINDING THAT THEY have more in common with each other than the usual issues of living in an urban neighborhood. The next meeting of the Historic Meridian Park Through a series of three community-wide forums, they are discovering the richness of interests, Neighborhood Association is: P gifts and talents they share. 7:15 p.m. Monday, May 19, The final meeting is set for 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 12, in the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. in the Fortune Room of Trinity Episcopal Church. In the process of conversations about what they their needs and deficits isn't new," said another General meetings are held (unless otherwise noted) on the love - their passions, pastimes and pursuits - they MFC Unity member, Scott VanKirk, president of third Monday of the month. All residents are welcome to are finding unexpected ways in which to connect Watson-McCord Neighborhood Association. "It's attend. Members are allowed to vote on officers and actions. with each other. The result is a growing sense of based on a concept which has been shown to work Hope to see you there! community, organizers believe. well in neighborhoods like ours, but it hasn't been The Historic Meridian Park Neighborhood Association spans "That's exactly what we hoped for when we tried here much before." the streets of Washington Blvd, Delaware & Pennsylvania dreamed up this initiative," said Marc McAleavey, "The more typical way," streets from 30th to 34th Street on the near Northside of one of a small group of neighbors who applied for explained MFC Unity member Indianapolis. and received a grant to fund this series of conversa Sarah Wiehe, "is for neighbor The Association is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to hood leaders to bring people improving the quality of life for residents of Meridian Park. tions to develop and support neighborhood connec tions. "Building community cohesiveness is the together to do something, usu Home & garden tours celebrate the historic heritage as lived ally to protect the area against today. New traffic lights on Washington, the roundabout and sole purpose of our work, and that's why we call median on Pennsylvania improve safety and help beautify our group MFC Unity," McAleavey said. some kind of threat from the The energy in the room our surroundings. Alley cleanups help maintain level of clean More than 85 neighbors attended the first forum outside or to remonstrate for was so high that I would liness. on March 10. The organizing theme was arts and improvements in city services." David Scott, also part of the The neighborhood, built in the early 20th century and reflect roots; conversations centered on neighbors' passion be surprised if the many ing the Arts and Crafts style, is listed on the National Register group, agreed. "Because groups for interests such as story-telling, painting and connections made that of Historic Places. An effort has begun for local designation. that are organized along the sculpture, performing arts, cooking and neighbor lines of negatives tend to fall night didn't lead to hood history. Held at Tabernacle Presbyterian Board of Directors apart when their goal is Church, the meeting also featured a free dinner pre enduring relationships." achieved, this asset-based Doug Day, president 978-397-4245 pared by Mapleton-Fall Creek resident and chef theme makes more sense. I Christy Krieg, vice-president, 432-5496. Avis White, as well as childcare and very high think people stay connected Karla Johnson, secretary, 926-5431 energy. when their relationship is based John Carmer, treasurer, 287-3513 Doug Day "We are absolutely thrilled with the outcome of on something personal that Lorraine Phillips Vavul, immediate past president, 931-9236 our first effort," said Lorraine Phillips Vavul, a they share." •••••••_•___• Larry Sanner, treasurer, 925-0043 member of MFC Unity. "People who probably "It's true," said Scott Jerry Johnson, 748-5248 wouldn't have gotten to know each other otherwise Semester, director of development at Broadway have made new friendships, and at least a dozen of Jess LaNore, 490-3461 United Methodist Church. "Asset-Based them will meet again on their own." Ora Triplet, 926-5209 Community Development has a very good track Doug Day, current president of the Historic record where it's been tried in other parts of the Newsletter distribution manager: Bob Branson. Meridian Park Neighborhood Association as well as country and the world." Sarah Blandina, secretary Newsletter editor: Jess LaNore. a member of MFC Unity, is equally enthusiastic. of the Mid-North Church Council and member of "The energy in the room was so high that I would the MFC Unity group, added, "People are more Newsletter Block Captains be surprised if the many connections made that likely to build enduring relationships when the Mike Walsh, 3000 Washington Boulevard; Robert Lomax, night didn't lead to enduring relationships." focus is on strength, and the whole thing is much 3100 Washington Boulevard (east); Sharon Smith, 3100 Said De'Amon Harges, an artist, community more positive and fun." Washington Boulevard (west); 'Mad Dog' Johnson, 3200 organizer, and another member of the MFC Unity Theme of the May 12 forum will be "All About Washington Boulevard; Jerry Johnson, 3300 Washington group: "The beauty of all this is that we don't know Youth." Conversations will center on topics encom Boulevard; Annie Owen, Washington Court; Andre Cunningham, 3000 Delaware Street; Jay van Santen, 3100 what these relationships will become - perhaps new passing the full spectrum of youth from education, Delaware Street; Jess LaNore, 3000/3100 Pennsylvania neighborhood initiatives to improve the quality of intergenerational connections, leadership, and sum Street; Carlene Hiner, 3200/3300 Pennsylvania Street; Larry life here, maybe a writer's group or theater club. mer camps among other topics. A free dinner will Sanner; 32nd Street; Doug Day, 33rd Street. We just help the process begin." be served and childcare will be provided. The web The process of connecting neighbors through site www.mfcunity.org provides details as they Email News & Reminders develop. • If you'd like to receive periodic emails about neighborhood their interests and strengths rather than focusing on news and happenings as well as last minute reminders, join our neighborhood wide email list by contacting Amy Rubin at [email protected]. Dangers of lead to be topic of next neighborhood meeting UESTIONS SUCH AS "ARE YOU children and cause nerve damage in as Fries will point out, few know lead is Qand your children being silently adults. also found in toys, jewelry, soil, cosmet poisoned by lead?" will be answered at The meeting will begin at 7:15 p.m. ics and tableware. He will talk about the We're on the Web! Visit us at the May 19 neighborhood meeting. in Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. risks of lead, prevention and signs of Daniel Fries of the Marion County Most people know that lead is a lead poisoning. www.historicmeridianpark.org Health Dept. will lead the program, heavy metal found in the paints used in Neighbors are encouraged to bring Gretchen Turner, Webmaster "Getting the Lead Out," focusing on the homes prior to 1978 - including most household items, such as toys and jew heavy metal which can slow growth in homes in Historic Meridian Park. But, elry, for testing during the meeting. • MAY 2008 QQ URBAN TIMES W«5f MORE: MERIDIAN PARK MIRROR Warm weather can bring crime increase Nice Neighbor T'S A FACT: WHEN THE WEATHER resell. Consider using an engraving pen or an Ibecomes warmer, incidences of crime ultraviolet marker. Up: The rules increases. Historic Meridian Park, like other 4, For more information on how • Anyone who has just moved into a resi neighborhoods in Indianapolis, is not immune to secure property, see "Crime-fighting" in dence should re-key the locks. for dogs and cats from this unfortunate fact. Although there is the "Archives" section of the Urban Times • Clearly display the number on the no sure-proof way to prevent crime, the fol website at www.brookspublications.com. house so police and emergency personnel can OT ONLY IS THE FAILURE TO lowing crime prevention tips - prepared by find the address quickly. Ncurb pets not neighborly, it is also the neighborhood's Safe Neighborhood in violation of Indianapolis' city code. Awareness Program - may be helpful: • Park the car in the garage, if there is one. The following is from Sec. 531-203 of • Install deadbolt locks on all doors and inquiring about the home or the neighbors. the Revised Code of the Consolidated • Never leave valuables inside the car, in quality locks on all windows and use them. • Consider getting a dog - or at least a City and County of plain view. People should carry their insur "Dog on Premises" sign. Indianapolis/Marion, Indiana: • Turn outside lights on all night long - ance card and registration with them - or hide "No person knowingly shall allow a every night. • Install a burglar alarm. The most effec them in an inconspicuous place (not in the dog or cat which is kept by that person • Keep bushes and trees trimmed around tive home security systems are those which glove compartment). Don't leave personal to defecate or urinate on a public street, windows and doors. are highly visible (like a metal box on the identification documents or credit cards in the front of the house), emit a loud noise when byway, municipally owned or public • Contact the block captain or a trusted vehicle. Always roll up the windows and lock activated, and transmit an immediate signal to land or building, or upon private proper neighbor when being away for long periods the doors. Consider installing a mechanical a security service. Most services provide a ty, in the city without the prior permis of time, leaving them a key and emergency device. Never leave a car with the engine still yard sign and window stickers which warn sion of the owner of such property; contact information. Don't hide spare keys running. burglars that the house is well protected. Use however, if an animal defecates on outside the house or let people know the them! • People with cell phones should put an property described in this subsection, house will be empty. Have a neighbor pick up "ICE" (in case of emergency) phone number the animal's owner or keeper promptly • Install flood lights around the property. the mail and newspaper (or put it on hold) in their address book. shall remove any feces to a waste con and keep the grass mowed. • Inventory personal property and make • Never purchase items such as personal tainer, or otherwise dispose of such • Do not advertise possessions with open sure there is adequate insurance coverage. property, plants etc. from strangers or give material in a manner inoffensive to rea curtains. • Mark personal property, especially elec money to strangers knocking on the door. sonable public sensibilities." • • Do not give personal information out to tronics, lawn equipment, bicycles, etc. Offer to call the police or 2-1-1, the social strangers who call or knock on the door Marked property is harder for thieves to services hotline. • F_, Renew your membership "UNIQUE OPTIONS scape Hardscape HEALTHCARE CENTER" Lighting or join today - Sculpture IMMEDIATE CARE CLINIC Water Features Online payments $45 fee for examination. Walk-in or call for an appointment. i g n now accepted! 924-4545 Landscape Architecture 3361 North Pennsylvania Avenue ' North Delaware Sir Tel. 317.924.2137 January marked the beginning of Historic www. a 2designed .com Meridian Park's annual membership drive. If you Sponsored by Mapelton Medical Center haven't done so already, please pay your associa tion dues for 2008. Minimum dues are set at $1 0 per year so every household can afford to partici pate. MAPLETON WELLNESS 2008 HMP Dues Levels CENTER The Connor Handy Man: $1 0 - Craftsman $25 - Colonial Mission 'A CENTER FOR HEALTH, FITNESS & NUTRITION' From the door to the roof, $50 - Tudor Revival he can fix about anything $1 00+ - American Four-Square in need of repair. Funds collected by the Historic Meridian Park Camp Mapleton! Know someone depenticiDle. Neighborhood Association are used to offset annual The sensible approach to the Childhhood operational expenses such as the rental of a packer Overweight Problem truck for alley clean-ups, obtaining gardening sup Starts July 2008 — call now for information plies for the medians and tree planting activities, sig One week of camping near Greencastle, IN nage, social events, Web site maintenance and $250 for the entire week - Girls & Boys ages 9-13 more. To the extent possible, it is the board's inten tion to use monies raised from special events such as THE PRACTICE WITH A HEART, the home tour to fund larger beautification initiatives. IN THE HEART OF THE CITY. Dues can be paid at the association's monthly general meeting or by sending a check (payable to NORTH PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Historic Meridian Park) to Treasurer John Carmer, 3363 3015 N Pennsylvania St., Apt. 12, Indianapolis, IN 317-927-2168 >nnor 46205. Please give at the level of your comfort. >mpany Dues can also be paid online at Debra A. Miller, neuji www.historicmeridianpark.org M.D., A.B.F.P., Handy Man Restoration Design & Build A.B.B.M. direction, 1101 Central Ave. Call (.17)637-0046 weight control system MAY 2008 40 URBAN TIMES News from the Old Northside The Keyhole Old Northside Association Old Northside Foundation The next meeting of the Old Northside Association will be conducted at 7 p.m. Monday, May 5 at the Propylaeum. Learn more about the Old Northside Association on-line at: DIGGING IN — It was too chilly to roll up their sleeves, but (l-r) Lynn Molzan, Kevin Osburn, Don Hennenfent, Tom Mote and www.oldnorthside.org Tyson Domer spent an early April Saturday morning working to repair the electrical and water lines running to the fountain in Great Oak Commons. Despite the shoveling, the volunteers couldn't locate a break in the old water line, so a replacement and join the neighborhood's e-maildiscussion group line was set to be installed in early May by the Old Northside Foundation, which maintains the park. for pertinent neighborhood issues and meeting reminders by logging on to: http://groups.yahoo.com/ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE group/ONSneighborhood ONS Association A time for neighborly connections Board of Directors Nancy Inui, president 917-9715, [email protected] E MOVED TO INDIANA- new and buds swell, the cardinals chase corner plantings, or pick up trash and Bob Hebbs, vice president 636-6843, polis in the summer of 2002. each other through the backyards and recyclables, or attend a meeting - all [email protected] WBy the time we surfaced across the street, the sound of laughter activities which are fun as well as Andra Sudler, secretary 638-4562, from unpacking boxes, vacations else and the smell of burgers on the grill rise "work" of a sort. (I hope more people [email protected] where, discovering the first of many out of Shawn Grove Park, kids who pay their dues, as well.) Doug Sapp, treasurer 287-5349, unexpected repairs and the subsequent were infants in the fall are now toddling Best of all, the broader connections [email protected] difficulty finding qualified and afford along, and there seem to be far more make me feel I belong to the larger area able tradespeople, and achieving the dogs in April than November. Sure of several dozen blocks, to more than Tyson Domer Rand Hammack Joan Harvey first Certificate of Appropriateness from enough, the people are back, some pio our own old house and garden. Stephanie Koutek Diana Mullendore Ken Sauer Cate Sharkey the Indianapolis Historic Preservation neers, some newcomers. If you are a new resident or simply Commission, it was late fall. And I realize how important it is to haven't become involved, please feel Land Use Committee: Paul DePrez, And it was a difficult, snowy winter. make the neighborly connections made free to reach out to any of us at the Old [email protected] I began to wonder whether anyone else easier by warmer temperatures and Northside Association. And if you are a Social Committee: Monica Bopp lived in the Old Northside, so empty of added light. Those connections create long-time resident with a suggestion, people were the streets. Had we some community in a very different way from please do the same. how ended up in no man's land? the website and listserv. They encourage OLD NORTHSIDE FOUNDATION Lynn Molzan, [email protected] Every year since then, I pay attention more people to join those of us who - Nancy Inui, president to the days of spring, when the green is care about the Old Northside to tend Old Northside Association Send newsletter submissions to Nancy Inui. All submis sions must be signed and include the address and phone number of the sender, and are judged on a case-by-case M NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES basis in accordance with the mission of this newsletter. • Join the Old Northside Association today. See Next meeting: A lesson in the alphabet the form on page 56. ANINE BETSEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE to improve the quality of life within our boundaries and with • There is NO MEETING of the Old Northside King Park Area Development Corp., will explain the our neighbor associations." Association in July. various entities which impact our Old Northside living The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Visitors should use the J he Old Northside Foundation is throwing a party - a in a program titled "Downtown Alphabet Soup." entrance on the south side of the building. MULCH-SPREADING PARTY- on Saturday, May 17, She will answer the question, "What do those initials mean T Looking ahead: at Shawn Grove Park. Volunteers are asked to gather at the and why should we care?" at the monthly meeting of the Old park at 14th and Alabama streets at 10 a.m., bringing with Northside Association on Monday, May 5, in the Propylaeum. • The June 2 neighborhood meeting will spotlight the new Indianapolis-Marion County Central Library building. A long them strong arms, rakes and shovels. The work is expected to Said President Nancy Inui, "Most homeowners know be done by 1 p.m. "IHPC" because we have to submit all exterior plans and time Old Northside resident and association board member, changes to the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission JOAN HARVEY, will give neighbors an insider's tour of the he Old Northside home of Joe Everhart and Ken Ramsay for approval. But ICND, HUNI, HLFI and others affect how new facility, where she works. Twas the location for a special YOUNG AUDIENCES the neighborhood develops and grows. Janine has some spe The meeting will be conducted at the Central Library, OF INDIANA event celebrating its new school readiness cific ideas for how the neighborhood association could work beginning at 7 p.m. Please turn to OLD NORTHSIDE, page 56 • MAY 2008 »* URBAN TIMES **± HERRON THE News from the MORTON Herron-Morton Place PLACE Historic Neighborhood HERRONMORTONTIMES Neighborhood Herron-Morton Place An environmental focus for Association, Inc '08 Talbot Street Art Fair P.O. Box 44166, Indianapolis IN 46244 HE TALBOT STREET ART The next meeting of the Herron-Morton Place Association is: Fair is going green. The oldest Logistics: Friday, • Talbott Street from 16th Street 7 p.m. Monday, May 5, Tand largest juried show in the north to 20th Street. area will this year support both the arts in the Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church. June 13, is tow-away • 17th Street from Delaware Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the environment. Street west to Talbott Street. The 53rd annual street fair will be time on some streets • 18th Street from Talbott Street Learn more about Herron-Morton Place at: conducted on Saturday and Sunday, west to Pennsylvania Street. June 14-15, and will feature over 250 www.herron-morton.org • 19th Street from the alley west artists and craftspeople lining Talbott HE 2008 TALBOT STREET ART of Delaware Street to the alley east of Street (and side streets) from 16th to TFair, set for Saturday and Sunday, HMPA Board of Directors Pennsylvania Street. 19th streets in historic Herron-Morton June 14-15, will result in the weekend Larry Gregerson, president, 423-2444. Place. closing of several Herron-Morton Said officials of the Herron- Becky Ruby, vice-president, 630-7352. Place streets. Morton Place Association: "We real The popular annual event is spon Tom Forman, secretary, 926-2141. ize this is an inconvenience for every sored by the Talbot Street Art Fair, Inc., As in past years, the art fair will Jason Hummel, treasurer, 921-9990. one who lives and normally parks in an artists' association, in cooperation occupy Talbott Street between 16th Jessica Harbin, vice-treasurer, 636-4353. the affected area. We thank you in with the Herron-Morton Place and 20th streets. 19th Street will also Tiffany Benedict Berkson, 926-4544. advance for your understanding and Neighborhood Association. be closed from the alley west of Christopher Bull, 927-7058. cooperation." The neighborhood group is providing Delaware Street to the alley east of Eric Dannenmaier, 925-2111. a free bicycle valet service, recommend Pennsylvania Street. The alley east of Talbott Street residents are asked — Kellie Helfenbein, 926-1270. ing that visitors save themselves money Pennsylvania Street will be available for the safety of visitors and artists - at the gasoline pump and help better the for north/south traffic. to trim any overgrown bushes or low- hanging branches that cover the side Contact the HMPA Board of Directors at: quality of our Indy air by pedaling their The official street closing hours walks. As in the past, street cleaning [email protected] bikes to the event. Neighborhood offi are from 8 a.m. Friday, June 13, until will be taking place early Friday cials also point out that Herron-Morton 7 p.m. Sunday, June 15. Herron-Morton Place Foundation Place is just 10 blocks from the Monon morning. Thanks to all the residents Board of Directors Any vehicle left on one of the Trail. (For people who end up driving, who have done such a great job get Jill Henry, president, 925-2958. designated streets after 8 a.m. Friday, here's another recommendation: please ting Talbott ready for the fair, neigh Jeanne Pontious, vice-president, 925-7525. June 13, will be ticketed and towed. carpool with other art-loving friends and borhood officials added. Janette Smith, secretary, 926-3793. As always, neighborhood officials family.) As in the past, there will be plenty Kathleen Schouten, treasurer, 372-0901. will distribute flyers to all parked of opportunities to help out, said Visitors should also look for the Bill Bisson, 283-2582. vehicles in the area as a reminder. Terry Prentkowski, art fair chairman famous Herron-Morton Place Lemonade Julie Brooks, 345-6838. Residents are asked to help by for the Herron-Morton Place Stand, where they can find "the perfect Jeanne Chandler, 927-7212. reminding neighbors of these impor Association. Watch next month's treat for a warm summer day," served in Jonathan Chumley, 921-9990. tant dates and events. Street closings Urban Times for further details. cups made of 100-percent biodegrad Kristin Edmundson, 409-4738. for the art fair weekend are: Thank you for your help," he said. • able, corn plastic, instead of styrofoam. Terry Prentkowski, 283-2227. Neighbors are asking that all of the art Doris Anne Sadler, 201-8363. fair's food and beverage vendors do the same, and abandon the use of styro what can be recycled can ask one of the natural resources and landfill waste, The Herron-Morton Times is published by the Urban Times in conjunc volunteers wearing a bright gold neighborhood officials said. tion with the Herron-Morton Place Association, Inc. Articles, information, foam, because the manufacturing and discussion of relevant neighborhood topics from all interested parties process of this material is, according to "Recycling Staff t-shirt. Visitors bringing their four-legged are encouraged. Space for articles will be evaluated according to timeli Another way that fair-goers can help and leashed friends can stop by the ness, appropriateness, and source. Submissions are not guaranteed to be federal officials, one of the very largest published, are subject to editing, and will not be returned. The editors creators of hazardous waste. the neighborhood effort to "go green" is neighborhood stand, where they can reserve the right to edit or refuse to print any article that is inflammatory, to "BYOB" - "Bring Your Own Bag." grab a drink of water accompanied by derogatory, racist, discriminatory, partisan, or containing language deemed Officials from the city's Department inappropriate for a neighborhood newsletter. Advertisements in this publi of Public Works will be on hand to pro Visitors will most definitely find a few some special treats for those pets who cation do not necessarily reflect an endorsement form the Herron-Morton fabulous items to purchase while at the have been patient as their owners roam Place Association. The publisher reserves the right to change the style or vide the festival with recycling bins, and format of the newsletter and its content as deemed necessary. to help spread the word about this small Talbot Street Art Fair. Why not save the the stands. The owners can hydrate step people can take, which has a great world from yet another plastic or paper there, as well, while picking up some E-mail articles to: bag, and reuse a bag you've got lying information about the history of the [email protected] impact on the world around us. There will be recycling bins all throughout the around the house" It's just another small neighborhood along with tickets to the See page 3 for deadlines. • event site. Anyone with a question about thing people can do to reduce the use of home tour coming later this year. • PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Warm weather should bring a neighborhood spirit of volunteerism T'S THAT TIME OF YEAR FOR EVERY- heavy on Talbot Street Art Fair planning. borhood home tour. Again, this is another ing this ahead of the event, you're reading it one to start thinking about volunteering for Volunteer opportunities abound with that activity that begs for lots of help. This project after. I have no doubt it will be/was a huge suc Iall the spring and summer activities. Russ before, during and after. has many facets and requires a great deal of cess. Carole has such a knack for organizing Newton has the neighborhood spring clean-up Numerous people are needed for all the dif coordination. Tom is experienced at making it these wide-scale neighborhood events. planned. ferent activities involved, such as clean up, a successful event, but he can use the support I hope to see all of you at the many upcom I would encourage everyone to get a jump lemonade stand, neighborhood booth, and of everyone. ing activities. on that by cleaning up around your own prop after-fair party. There is a lot of work involved, Fortunately, by now all of the hard work erties. It's funny how litter breeds litter! but it is always a great time. Carole Veatch put into planning the neighbor - Larry Gregerson, president I know Terry Prentkowski is working hot and Tom Forman is working on the next neigh hood garage sale is history. Although I'm writ Herron-Morton Place Association »*% MAY 2008 **^ URBAN TIMES Competitive Prices. Great Quality. Authentic Design. Fair Trade. WORLD FAI ARTSA uPPlN ' TRADE DAY^ fl Unique Artisan Gift Boutique MAY 10, 2008 -v^fe ONE DAY SPECIAL EVENT! 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CONSTRUCTED REALITIES Featuring the Work of Brent Aldrich and Lisa Kleindorfer The IMC Gallery - 425 Mass Ave. May 2nd through May 30th Opening Reception First Friday May 2nd, 2008 6-9pm fires tone truthrelevancesupportworship ^T SOMMER BARNARD.. IN--*/ -*_Sl9 -te-W_K&MlUffi ENM__E.'EN_E MAY 2008 **> URBAN TIMES ^W MORE: HERRON-MORTON TIMES • NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES Spring Clean-up . to be on May 17 ' i . '. . • EIGHBORS ARE ASKED TO MEET in the neighborhood park at 9 a.m. NSaturday, May 17, for the Annual Spring Clean-Up in Herron-Morton Place. Keep Indianapolis Beautiful will be providing a dumpster and trucks to aid in the clean-up. Organizers are hoping for a big turn-out. motion has been made for the Herron AMorton Place Association to make a $10,000 LOAN to the Herron Morton Place Foundation. Per the association by-laws, this type of motion requires a vote of the full membership after 30 days published notice. Plans are to have discussion on the motion at the May meeting and for the vote to occur at the June meeting of the Herron Morton Place Association Membership. erformers from STORYTELLING ARTS, PInc., will visit Herron-Morton Place Historic Park on Monday, June 2, for an evening of storytelling from 7 to 8:30 p.m. In READY FOR ACTION - Herron-Morton Place youngsters get ready for the neighborhood's annual Easter Egg Hunt. About 25 kids of all ages case of inclement weather this event will take showed up to diligently hunt the strategically hidden eggs. The event was held at the neighborhood park on a cold and slightly damp Saturday place at Joy of All Who Sorrows Church. The before Easter, but the weather didn't dampen the spirit of the kids. Organizers issued thanks to everyone who helped to underwrite the cost event is sponsored by Storytelling Arts, Inc.; of the event, as well as those who helped stuff the eggs. 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Broadmoor. No assessments, guaranteed. Where You're Always Welcome. Broadmoor Country Club 2155 West Kessler Blvd. broadmoorcc.com (317) 251-9444 ext. 211 A A MAY 2008 H URBAN TIMES ae re66 News from the St. Joseph Historic Neighborhood St. Joseph Historic Volunteers say they receive Neighborhood Association 238 E. Joseph St.. Indianapolis IN 46202 more than they give to VoA The St. Joseph Historic Neighborhood Association meets the second Tuesday of the month. The next meeting is: BY CATHLEEN KREBS •4 Volunteer been through and the challenges they still face. It makes you look hard at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 13 HERE'S NOTHING COINCI- coordinator Sara yourself and your own world. There dental about the first word in the Pugh said some in the Goodrich-Houk meeting room of the new Central people help out were so many things I didn't understand organization's name - Volunteers Library (Atrium level on the second floor. Enter the 9th T several times a before." Street door, go up one level via the escalator. The of America. "So much of the success of week, while oth Volunteers of America is a national, meeting room is just behind the Learning Curve.) Theodora House and of all the ers come in once nonprofit, faith-based organization dedi Volunteers of America programs is due or twice a month. The Board of Directors meets at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday cated to helping those in need rebuild to the dedication and creativity of our All are valued, as of every month at the same location; those meetings are volunteers," said Mary Leffler, the orga the March 17 their lives and reach their full potential. open to the public and neighbors are encouraged to attend. nization's division director of communi dinner attested. Theodora House, located at 927 N. Learn more about the St. Joseph Historic ty engagement. Pennsylvania St., is a residential re entry center offering both residential Neighborhood Association online at: The volunteers, however, insist that restaurant. and non-residential services to women www.stjoeneighborhood.org they are the true beneficiaries. "But when the lunch was through, in transition from prison and jail to the "When I asked at my church if any everyone felt they'd received far more community. St. Joseph Historic Neighborhood Association meetings serve as one wanted to help with a Christmas than they gave," Whitsett added. The an open forum for your discussion and active participation, whether Throughout the evening, other volun lunch for the ladies and their visiting nurse has been on several mission trips you are a homeowner, an apartment dweller, or have a business in the teers spoke of their own experiences. area bounded by I-65, Central Ave., Ft. Wayne Ave. & Pennsylvania families, I received an overwhelming to Africa, as well as volunteering for a Lisa Ralph, who contributes her profes Street. We are striving to make our neighborhood an urban mix of generous response," Julie Whitsett said variety of other causes. About volun business & residential harmony. Please join us and offer your neigh sional skills as an empowerment coach, during the annual Volunteer teering in general she said, "When you borhood participation. talked about the thrill of seeing the Appreciation Dinner conducted March get to really know someone so different Newsletter contact. Send emails to: 17 at Urban Element, a neighborhood from you, you understand what they've Please turn to VOLUNTEERS, page 53 • [email protected] Board of Directors Spring buzz: Safety amid the plants Bob Hood, president, 916-5538 ([email protected]) Craig Ware, vice-president, 636-5858 BY CAROLINE LAUDIG smooth boards. ([email protected]) These three character Linda Kammen, secretary, 917-9328 ([email protected]) OW THAT THE WEATHER istics — clusters of three Jan Good, 371-1172, ([email protected]) has turned warm (thanks, leaflets, alternate growth Mary Rita Hurley, 917-8868 ([email protected]) Mother Earth!), some of us N along the vine, and lack Jayme Moss, 955-0889 ([email protected]) would like to go out into the yard and of thorns - are sufficient Nancy Otten, 685-0725 ([email protected]) do battle with the wild - specifically, to positively identify the the vines. Dave Gibson, 698-4050, ([email protected]) plant. If it is growing up Garry Chilluffo, 637-6008, ([email protected]) Three very common vines that occur the trunk of a tree, the in local gardens are English ivy, presence of root-hairs Membership Virginia creeper and poison ivy. English will identify it. ivy is very common and easily identi Annual dues at $10 for individuals and families and $25 for businesss. Poison ivy produces Please send us your name, address, telephone and email information. fied by its dark green leaves and white Make checks payable to St. Joseph Historic Neighborhood veining, it is rarely confused with poi urushiol oil, the very Association, 238 E. St. Joseph Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202 New: son ivy. potent substance known Business members are now listed on the St. Joe website, accessed for the reaction suffered and linked from the monthly e-newsletter. Virginia creeper vines {parthenocis- by many people. Care sus quinquefolia) can look like poison needs to be taken when St. Joseph Historic ivy. The younger leaves can consist of Caroline Laudig pulling weeds, planting Neighborhood Foundation three leaflets but have a more serrations and tending the garden. along the leaf edge, and the leaf surface 238 E. Joseph St.. Indianapolis IN 46202 Only one-billionth of a is somewhat wrinkled. Most Virginia gram of urushiol oil is need creeper leaves have five leaflets. ed to cause a rash, and one- Virginia creeper and poison ivy very quarter ounce contains • St. Joe Press continued on page 54 often grow together, even on the same enough oil to cause a rash tree. in every person on earth. oak, poison ivy and poison sumac are so highly sensitive that Poison ivy (toxicodendron radicans) The oil can stay potent for they break out in a rash and begin to swell in 4 to 12 hours is not a true ivy. It is, however, a true one to five years - even on instead of the normal 24 to 48. Their eyes may swell shut and irritant and trouble-maker. dead plants - and specimens blisters may erupt on their skin. This is one of the few true The compound leaves of poison ivy several centuries old have emergencies in dermatology. Seek medical assistance immedi consist of three pointed leaflets; the been known to cause der ately. A shot of corticosteroids will bring the swelling down. middle leaflet has a much longer stalk Poison ivy Virginia creeper matitis in sensitive people. People who know they have been exposed should immedi than the two side ones. The leaflet edges mer, and become various shades of yel The oil is also dispersed in the air if ately rinse with lots of cold water — like from a garden hose. can be smooth or toothed. Occasionally low, orange or red in the autumn. The burned and can be inhaled, causing Hot water will open the pores and let the oil in. Pels-Naptha they are lobed. The leaves vary greatly vine is hairy and can attach itself to rel severe, possibly deadly, reactions in soap helps break down the oils and washes them away but in size, from a half inch to three inches atively smooth surfaces by spreading lung tissue. there are few actual remedies once anyone has been exposed. in length and alternate along the vine. the "hairs" into very small cracks and For those who develop a rash, the best they can do is relieve They are reddish when they emerge in About 15 percent of the 120 million crevices, including the minute ones on the symptoms. • the spring, turn green during the sum- Americans who are allergic to poison MAY 2008 JtK URBAN TIMES 1& News from the Woodruff Place WeedmU Magjfat Historic Neighborhood Helping coming for streetlights Woodruff Place Civic „OOM_ • PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE HE EFFORT TOWARD COM- attention from Victoria Cluck of the Woodruff Place plete restoration of the historic Department of Public Works. Great job, League Flea Market streetlights in Woodruff Place is Victoria! 735 East Drive, T SolTur'dau, r)une7j IPL has been paid well for picking up steam. An engineering study However, there are still issues to Woodruff Place 8:00 a.m. lo 5:00 p.m. maintenance that was not to determine the scope of work needed overcome. Tom Gross, Tom Abeel and I Indianapolis, IN 46201 Sundau, C)UIK? 8, has been completed, and the necessary recently met with Ms. Cluck to begin 317-632-9827 performed, and they have approvals to transfer our federal grant developing a Memorandum of an obligation to rectify that (originally obtained to restore the Understanding that guarantees the The next general membership entrances to the neighborhood) to cover restoration of our streetlights. The pri meeting is debt to Woodruff Place the streetlight project have been mary cost to us is a commitment from obtained. None of this would have hap 7 p.m. Monday, pened without the hard work and special Please turn to STREETLIGHTS, page xx • May 12 Membership is open to all residents and Return of the property owners in Woodruff Place with annual dues of $25. General member ship meetings are held the second Easter Bunny Monday of odd-numbered months. OOL WEATHER COULDN'T KEEP Civic League board and general mem bership meeting agendas and notes away the excited crowd which came are available online at www.woodruffplace.org Members will Cto celebrate Woodruff Place's annual first need to log in to have access to the agendas and notes. Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 22. The festivities were moved to East Drive Woodruff Place this year, where three age groups of nearly 50 children searched for eggs on the Civic League Board esplanades and Town Hall lawn. After the Kevin Garing, president, 636-7457, [email protected]. hunt, the party moved indoors for a warm Tom Abeel, vice-president, 631-1923, [email protected]. reprieve, and the crowd being offered loads JeffWatt, co-treasurer, 681-1119, [email protected]. of snacks and drinks, prizes, and visits with Ken McEwan, co-treasurer, 917-1516, [email protected]. the Easter Bunny. Debbie Anderson, co-secretary, 627-8982, [email protected]. Coordinators Maribeth Salkovsky and David Smith, co-secretary, 331-5829, [email protected]. Nisha Harke issued special thanks to the Tom Gross, 638-0462, [email protected]. "generous neighbors" who assisted with Tessie Lloyd-Jones, 636-4194, [email protected]. food; to Rob Dickinson, who provided "a Bill Longest, 951-4058, [email protected]. zillion colored eggs"; to Miriam Ryan of Absolutely Fantastic Parties for Kids for Historic Preservation Committee providing the bunny costume; and to 735 East Drive, Woodruff Place, 317-632-9827 Austin Ryan, who portrayed "a fantastic The Woodruff Place Historic Preservation Committee repre Easter Bunny." • sents Woodruff Place in matters pertaining to historic preser vation and land use. Its members provide helpful guidance Participants of the 6-and-up • • The Easter in working to our historic preservation plan, and offer their age group get ready for their Bunny was on experience as renovators. Meetings are normally held in the Town Hall at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month. Please hunt on the East Drive esplanade. hand to greet a contact Terri Everitt at 632-4927 if you would like to be on delighted crowd the agenda. that included Carly Salkovsky, and Shannon and Woodruff Place Historic Preservation Committee Charlotte Powell. Terri Everitt, chair Kristin Boling Monica Thompson Deal John Faust Randy Galbreth Kevin Garing Shannon Powell Bill Longest Brent Roberts helps daughter, JeffWatt Charlotte. T Woodruff Place Foundation 735 East Drive, Woodruff Place, Indianapolis, IN 46201 632-9827 The Woodruff Place Foundation is the fund-raising organiza tion for Woodruff Place. Its primary objective has been the acquisition of properties for rehabilitation and the TEA 21 grant for East Drive improvements. Kevin Garing Bob Clark JeffWatt Jim Leich Tom Gross Woodruff Place Town Hall 735 East Drive, Woodruff Place, 632-9827 The Woodruff Place Town Hall is available for members to rent for meetings and social functions. 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HSS H«-"V' JflAC O Integrity Mortgage Corp. 317-695-7255 LWNfONDIANAPOiJS W Wafsoii MAY 2008 A"] URBAN TIMES H MORE: WOODRUFF PLACE POST • STREETLIGHTS COMING: MAY 10 Continued from page 45 Wheel Rally: It takes all kinds Woodruff Place to assume responsibility for the long-term maintenance of the IDS OF ALL AGES, AS WELL AS FHEIR PARENFS, lights. While maintenance may seem Kare invited to take part in the Wheel Rally set for like it should not be our problem, it is 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 10, on East Drive. undoubtedly going to be. For some time Participants can use bicycles, roller blades, or stroll Indianapolis Power & Light Co. has with a baby carriage to raise money for the preservation balked at working on our streetlights of the urns and fountains of Woodruff Place. Sponsor because our lights are not one of the sheets will be delivered to the door. Kids can ask parents, standard models that IPL leases to the neighbors, grandparents and teachers to sponsor the race. city. Residents who would like to make a contribution should make checks payable to Woodruff Place In meetings three years ago, repre Foundation and contact Amy Peterson at 261-1883. sentatives of IPL told us very bluntly Organizers raised $500 last year, and hope to double that that they would not maintain streetlights number this year. in Woodruff Place. Fhis event goes rain or shine, with a cookout follow A For many months, several of Woodruff's historic streetlights lay in disrepair in the It is certainly not my great desire to ing after the hour-long race. • esplanades before being moved to the safer confines of the Woodruff Place Town be responsible for the maintenance of Hall. our streetlights, but it does give us con trol to see that work actually gets done. Dual role for 'Walking Woodruff We are getting quotes to accurately esti but a significant part of the fee is for for maintenance not performed and will maintenance. be appealing to them to use this wind ISFORIC PRESERVATION AND FIFNESS WILL mate maintenance costs, and we are pur come together on Saturday, May 10, for the IPL has been paid well for mainte fall to help establish a fund to help H suing funding. I am convinced that we "Walking Woodruff Place" event sponsored by the nance that was not performed, and they cover our future maintenance costs. IPL can finance the maintenance without Indiana Department of Historic Preservation and have an obligation to rectify that debt to promises in its statement of values to turning to the Woodruff Place Civic Archaeology in partnership with the INShape Indy fit Woodruff Place. act with integrity and honor commit League or the Historic Woodruff Place ness initiative. Foundation for money, and I expect IPL IPL is owned by AES, a Fortune ments, so I am confident that they will Fhe event is one of a series of walking tours around to help make that happen. 1000 corporation that operates through ultimately do what is right. the state to teach about history and architecture during out the U.S. and in over 20 other coun We still have work to do before the There are 74 streetlights in Woodruff Historic Preservation Month. tries, with revenues of $13.6 billion in streetlights are fixed for good, but we Place and the City of Indianapolis pays 2007. Fhey are very successful at mak are getting close. I thank Victoria Cluck Fours will begin at 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. at 974 IPL over $250 a year for each one based ing money through managing energy and other city employees who have Woodruff Place West Drive. Reservations are required by on a rate set by the Indiana Utility resources, but they also have a responsi worked hard to make it happen. calling 636-4191. Fhe cost is $1, which includes a Regulatory Commission. Part of this fee bility to the public. We are determining brochure. Anyone wishing to be a tour guide should con is for the electricity to power the light, - Kevin E. Garing, president tact Fessie Lloyd-Jones at 636-4194. • how much money has been paid to IPL Woodruff Place Civic League Flea Market not very far away • NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES In memory: Richard 'Dick' Good HE DATES HAVE BEEN SEF Sunday. Fhere is no rain date and anniversary in 2007. Located VA miles ervices were conducted April 9 at Christ Church for the 33rd annual Woodruff admission is free. from the city center, the neighborhood SCathedral for Woodruff Place resident and retired Marion TPlace Flea Market - Saturday A new feature of the weekend will be serves as a unique example of classic Superior Court Judge Richard "Dick" Good, who died April 5 and Sunday, June 7-8. a community information fair offered by architecture and modern-day neighbor at the age of 76. Dick was a former member of the Woodruff Sometimes called "the mother of all Feachers' Freasures, a not-for-profit hood hospitality. Fhe residential neigh Place Civic League Board of Directors, and throughout the flea markets," the annual event will fea organization now located in the former borhood features decorative cast iron years participated in neighborhood clean-ups, adopted a urn, ture antiques, arts, collectibles, crafts, Kroger store at 1800 E. 10th St. Visitors urns, Victorian fountains, and turn of the and enjoyed watching the annual Fourth of July Parade with clothes, and furniture. Organizers wel to the Flea Market will also be able to century statuary on tree-lined, grassy his grandchildren. come everyone from the city "to come use the Feachers' Freasures parking lot, esplanades. His family requested that memorial contributions in cele join in the fun, stroll the esplanades, in return for a donation. Included in the National Register of bration of his passions for music and learning be made to the admire the fountains, grab a funnel Fhe organization provides classroom Historic Places since 1972, Woodruff Marion County Library Foundation (P.O. Box 6134, cake, look at the historic homes, and materials for children in 227 schools Place is one of the first contained resi Indianapolis, IN 46206) for the purchase of a library table and enjoy the entertainment." with 40 percent or more of the students dential subdivisions in the nation after chairs in his honor; or to the Indianapolis Opera (250 East Flea Market hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 on the free lunch program. James O. Woodruff visited a similar 38th St, Indianapolis, IN 46205); or the Indianapolis p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Woodruff Place celebrated its 135th neighborhood in Europe. • Symphony Orchestra (32 E. Washington St, Suite 600, Indianapolis, IN 46204-2919). Town Hall flooding becomes a Gross affair In memory: Dorothy Kuykendall ormer Woodruff Place resident Dorothy Kuykendall died ANY WOODRUFFIANS al drainage pipe to the main sewer line and the fixing of that flooding may have March 26 at the age of 92. She and her husband, John, may have noticed a hose, which prevented the floor drains from prevented an even bigger flooding/ F had lived at 991 Middle Drive for 45 years and were friendly with water flowing out, com working properly. Fhe source of the sewer issue for all East Drivers connect M to all and quite active in the Civic League. She was known ing out of the front door of the Fown water was likely the heavy rains and ed to that main sewer line, which was for her sense of humor and for playing the organ at the East Hall - after it was flooded with 8-12 may also have been from a leaky valve down to 23 percent of capacity. 10th Street United Methodist Church. She also loved to grow inches of water in the basement. in the basement. At this point we do not believe there flowers all year long in her home, and also loved to paint, do was any permanent damage to the Fown Fhrough the diligent efforts of Fom Fhe good news is that the city has crafts, make dolls, and cook. Gross, the water has now been pumped now discovered (through Monica Deal's Hall or its contents - because all the out, the lateral drainage pipe to the efforts) that the main sewer line is Woodruff souvenirs had, coincidentally, oodruff Place residents in charge of PLANTING sewer line has been cleaned, and exten severely clogged and the city is starting recently been moved upstairs. ESPLANADE urns may pick up their flowers at the sions have been added to the gutters. the process of clearing the main sewer W Town Hall from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 10, or from Fhe apparent cause of the flooding line. noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 11. Call Karen Markman at 917- was the clogging with roots of the later Fhus the flooding in the Fown Hall - Ken McEwan 9187 for more information. • MAY 2008 48 URBAN TIMES • 5 pages of reports on arts & entertainment activities in the Urban Times area. • 'Events,' edited by Jeremy Crum, lt!_"±s.ro u na s starts on page 50. May signals return of the Artful Tread OLKS WHO SFROLL MASS AVE City / At Home in the City was selected on the May 2 "First Friday" will find by the judges. Ftwo special treats - the Spring Gallery Most of the artfully designed tires Walk and 39 entries in the Artful Fread, the will be on display by 5 p.m. Friday. Mass Ave Merchants Association's annual Following are the entries in the 2008 homage to auto racing and the spirit of the Artful Fread: month of May in Indy. 300 block Fhe seventh annual event, which continues Bazbeaux, Full Circle Hair Studio, through May (as long as the weather doesn't MacNivens. abuse the tires), features all types of business es in the Mass Ave Art & Fheater District. It 400 block also includes two special guests — the Luna Music, Silver in the City / At Chatham Arch Neighborhood Association and Home in the City, RN Specialties, Eye the Cottage Home Neighborhood Association Candy, Riley Area Development Corp., - which will use their creations to promote Schmidt Associates, Global Gifts and upcoming home tours. Chatterbox Jazz Club. People strolling the Avenue on the opening 600 block weekend will be able to cast their ballots for a Dean Johnson Design, Arts A "People's Choice" selection. On Friday Poppin, Frame Shope/Franklin Barry • Last year, the panel of celebrity judges gave Silver evening, a group of celebrity judges will also Gallery, Century 21 Scheetz, Agio, Yats in the City /At Home in the City the top award. vote for the "Judges' Choice." Judges are on Mass, Watt's Blooming. scheduled to include Christopher West, The Great Gondos will come to Indy from 700 block curator of the Indianapolis Museum of Just off the Avenue Melbourne, Australia. ComedySportz, Chatham Fap, Sage, Mass Contemporary Art; David Forsell, president Fhe Athenaeum (a joint entry of American of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful; Kim Hodges, Appeal. Cabaret Fheatre, YMCA at the Athenaeum, director of development for Herron School of 800 block Rathskeller Restaurant, Athenaeum International Art and Design; and Nikki Sutton, an interior R Bistro, Circle City Baskets, Best Foundation and Pauline Moffat), Nestle Inn designer and owner of LEVEL, an interior Chocolate in Fown, GC. Lucas Gallery, (with the Center for Inquiry Art Club), architecture and design firm. Evolve Salon, and four residents of Fhe Art Indianapolis Fheatre Fringe Festival, flare for Last year, Watt's Blooming won the Bank - Loudermilk Photography Gallery, Chatham Arch Neighborhood Association, Preston Karns, Dwayne Bulla and Rod-Man. IndyFringe "People's Choice" award, while Silver in the Cottage Home Neighborhood Association. • HE FINEUP IS COMPLEFE FOR IRT's 'StreetFront' presence to change the fourth annual Indianapolis ATRONS WHO TAKE PARE Stolen noted that, TFheatre Fringe Festival - in opening night of the Indiana over the past 27 years, IndyFringe - now that the six interna PRepertory Fheatre's 37th season the IRF has invested tional slots have been finalized. on Sept. 19 should be able to see the heavily in the historic, As a result, a cast of crazy characters results of its $3 million StreetFront city-owned building and from the far corners of the world will Project. the opportunity to make come to Downtown Indianapolis later a transformative differ Work has already begun on the this summer - from Australia, India, ence in energizing West project, funded by a grant from the Canada and the United Kingdom. Fhey Washington Street. He Lilly Endowment. Fhe StreetFront will be among a total of 53 groups who said the StreetFront Project involves renovating the vacant will give over 200 performances in six Project is integral to the restaurant space on the street level of Mass Ave-area venues between Friday, IRT's Strategic Plan the historic Indiana Fheatre building Aug. 22, and Sunday, Aug. 31. objective to make the at 140 W Washington St. Fhe plans theatre a more visible While 47 of the slots were filled also include a renovation and creation community leader and almost immediately, the remaining six of a new public lobby that will serve an inspiring place for slots reserved for international groups all the users of the building and addi anyone to visit. took a bit longer because of complicated • Lilly Endowment is funding $3 million project for Indiana Repertory Theatre tional work to support the marketing travel arrangements. The grant will break and development programs of the Pauline Moffat, executive director of down as follows: IRF. Managing Director, Steven Stolen. IndyFringe and herself a native "We're immensely grateful for the support $2,455,113 will go directly to the StreetFront Australian, said the arrival of perfonners "We expect our expanded lobby to be an from Lilly Endowment and its confidence in Project lobby and restaurant space renovation. from Down Under should be no surprise. ideal spot for a casual meeting, cup of coffee, us,' Stolen said. "The theater is proud to tack Fhe balance - $544,887 - will go into a glass of wine, or light shopping in our bou le an endeavor that will shine an even longer-term plan that includes renovation of Please turn to INDYFRINGE, page 53 • tique and, of course, ultimately a beautiful brighter and well-deserved light on an iconic other parts of the building's office and entry point for any theatergoer," said IRF community building and asset." rehearsal space. • MAY 2008 JtjCk URBAN TIMES ^«* DAY BY DAY IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION MONTH MAY Old Centrum to get special attention when 2: Spring Gallery Walk at the New Orleans preservationist brings message Artful Tread display on Mass HE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FHE PRESERVAFION Ave. Resource Center of New Orleans will talk about that city's U Harrison Center art show is part of Preservation Month Trecovery work since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, at a pro festivities. See "Galleries" on page 53. 2: First Friday art openings at a gram to begin at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, May 4, in the Old Centrum. myriad of Mass Ave and other Fhe program is sponsored by Historic Landmarks Foundation of Downtown galleries. Indiana as part of its celebration of Historic Preservation Month. Preserve Restore Maintain Indy will lead the hands-on workshop to It is no accident that the program is being offered in the Old help participants learn how to restore historic windows and make 2: "Meeting of the Minds" opens Centrum, noted Historic Landmarks President Marsh Davis, who them more cost effective. The cost is $18 for Historic Landmarks at Freemason Hall. said the facility - slated for closing - was chosen to underscore Foundation members and S20 for non-members. For reservations, Gay's messages from New Orleans. contact 636-5409 or [email protected]. 2: "Three Belles of Eden" opens Fhe Old Centrum, built in 1892 as a Methodist church, was emp • David Duvall of the Indiana Department of Historic at Epilogue Players. tied of tenants at the end of March while its nonprofit board assess Preservation and Archeology will lead PRESERVATION TAX es uses that will better preserve the Romanesque Revival structure. 2-3: "Deceived, Doomed and CREDITS 101, a program scheduled for Saturday, May 17. "Fhe lecture is free," says Marsh Davis, president of Historic Departed" performed at Participants will learn how to determine whether historic homes Landmarks Foundation, "but we'll be passing the plate and giving qualify for Preservation Tax Credits. Benjamin Harrison Home. the proceeds to the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans to Fhe cost is $5; reservations are required by calling 636-5409 or continue its work in this great and unusual American city." 6: Indy Magic Monthly at emailing [email protected] for reservations. Gay, an expert on the historic architecture of New Orleans, will • Suzanne Stanis, director of heritage education for Historic Theatre on the Square. share the story of the recovery work she and her organization are Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, will lead a class on HOW TO doing in her free illustrated talk title "New Orleans Preservation: 7: "The Meaning of the Word" RESEARCH YOUR HISTORIC HOME, from 6 to 7 p.m. Before and After a Disaster." She will show the results of her orga Tuesday, May 20. ("Hoosier") at Indiana History nization's efforts in the lower Ninth Ward and other flood-damaged During her 20 years with Historic Landmarks, Stanis has Center. districts - and depict how much remains to be done nearly three researched and nominated over 15 buildings and neighborhoods to years after Hurricane Katrina. Since the hurricane, the Preservation the National Register of Historic Places. As librarian for the 10: Mother's Day Tea at Morris- Resource Center has helped more than 5,000 families save their Foundation's Information Center, she regularly provides assistance Butler House. homes and brought more than 100 low-income families back to their to people researching their own historic houses or looking for accu homes. Fhe organization champions efforts to rebuild the city in a rate period paint colors and interior decoration. 10: Boutique Extravaganza and way that is sensitive to its heritage. Cost of the workshop is $5 for members of Historic Landmarks Afternoon Tea at Propyaeum. "Fo make Patty's message really resonate," Davis said, "plan on Foundation and $10 for non-members. Contact the Morris-Butler staying for dinner, because Joe Vuskovich of Yats is supplying New 11: Mother's Day Buffat at House staff at 636-5409 or [email protected] for Orleans cuisine. And, after all, Yats is 'stay' spelled backwards." reservations. Propylaeum. • THIS OLD HOUSE: ARCHITECTURAL STYLES OF 16: Twilight Tour Reception in Morris-Butler House THE HISTORIC OLD NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD" is Cottage Home neighborhood. the topic of a program running from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, hosting series of events May 24. Participants will gather at the Morris-Butler House for a 17-18: Home and Garden Tour in brief presentation by Suzanne Stanis, director of heritage education Cottage Home neighborhood. AFIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION MONTH IS GEFFING and information for Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. Nspecial attention at the Morris-Butler House Museum, which is Stanis will then lead the group on a walking tour highlighting the 16: 'Stroll Into Spring' progressive hosting the following events during the month of May: Old Northside, one of the city's premiere historic neighborhoods. Cost is $17 for Historic Landmarks members and $20 for non- dinner in the Old Northside. • A workshop on HISTORIC WINDOW REPAIRS, members. People registering by May 14 will receive a $5 discount. RESTORATION, AND ENERGY RETROFITTING will be con 16: Malik Yoba performances at Call 636-5409 for reservations. • ducted from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 3. Ron Zmyslo of the Madame Walker Theatre. 18: "Bluegrass Roots: A Unique Look at the Making of Music" at the Central Library. Easley summer series will begin May 20 18: "May We Dance" at Scottish ORE FREES, MORE FLOWERS snacks, including sparkling grape juice in play dates, see the website at www. Rite Cathedral. - and more food - will be part of spill-proof cups, nuts, cheeses, and dried EasleyWinery.com.) Mthe Easley Winery's "Groovin' in fruit, served up with coloring books and In addition to on-site food, people attend the Garden" series, which begins Fuesday, crayons. ing the events can order meals from some of May 20, with noted local jazz musicians "Groovin' in the Garden" takes place from Downtown's favorite restaurants, including Mary Moss, Monika Herzig and Sharlee 5-7 p.m. Fuesdays and Saturdays, through the Bazbeaux, Santorini's, and Circle City Pizza. Next deadline: Davis. end of September. Wine specials will be featured every week, Meredith Easley, who calls the event "For some reason, it rarely rains in including Sangria, Reggae Jam, and wine "Alfesco Fun," noted that the sixth annual Indianapolis on Fuesdays and Saturdays," May 7 with the lowest "grape mile footprint" avail series will feature the winegarden's expanded Easley said. "But, if it does, we'll just move able. Submit information for next inventory of trees, flowers, fountains, and the music, people and fun inside to the Arbor month's activities to: shading. Room." Joan Easley, co-founder of the winery in 1974 and avid gardener, oversees the planting [email protected]. "Our partnership with Indianapolis Fhe no-cover, no-minimum venue will Downtown Inc. has allowed us to double the feature a variety of live music genres, includ of flowers and trees that brighten the Urban Times publishes all such number of trees," Easley said. " Also, we're ing jazz, Carribean, blues, island sway, and Downtown landscape year round. information in or near its nine now serving fresh baked breads and artisan classic rock. Among the other musicians Fhe Easley winery, the largest family- Downtown-area neighborhoods. cheeses from Fair Oaks, an Indiana dairy." will be Ann Mc Williams, Bill Lancton, owned winery in the state, is open Monday She added that the ongoing family-friendly Michael Beck, Kenny Kipp and Greg through Saturday from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. and event also is adding child-tested healthy Anderson, and Monika Herzig. (For specific from noon to 4 p.m. every Sunday. • MAY 2008 50 URBAN TIMES aturday. May 10. Grammy-nominated violinist Philippe SQuint will perform with the INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA during the orchestra's season finale beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center. Quint will perfrm Max Bruch's "Vioin Concerto in G Minor." Next season's repertoire and concert dates will be announced on the evening of this concert. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students. For additional information, call 940- 1 vents 9607 or email [email protected]. hrough Saturday. June 21. Showcasing the Indiana THistorical Society's extensive collections exploring the life of Abraham Lincoln and his public image, "THE FACES OF Progressive dinner LINCOLN: LINCOLN AND POLITICS" depicts the presi dent's political career from the Illinois state legislature to the set for historic sites White House. This free exhibition is located in the Rosemary McKee Lanham Gallery of the center and is viewable during reg IX HISTORIC OLD NORTHSIDE VENUES ARE POOLING ular center hours. their charm and amenities for the Stroll Into Spring SProgressive Dinner, scheduled for Friday, May 16. Venues scheduled to take part in the six-course meal include the • MADAME WALKER THEATRE Morris-Butler House, the DeWolf-Allerdice Bed and Breakfast, riday. May 16. Celebrated actor Malik Yoba closes out the the Old Northside Bed and Breakfast, the President Benjamin FMadame Walker Theatre's performing arts season with the Harrison Home, the Indianapolis Propylaeum, and The Yellow premiere of his new stage production, "HARLEM TO Rose Inn. Tickets are $70 per person. Reservations are required HOLLYWOOD." This musical autobiography chronicles the by calling 636-5409 or emailing mbhouse@historiclandmarks. actor's life, from crime-ridden New York streets to the bright org. lights of Hollywood. The production begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for those 12 and under and are available by calling the box office. • BENJAMIN HARRISON HOME hrough Sunday. May 4. The President's Theatre presents a uesday. April 29. Every last Tuesday of the month, the Tnew "Victorian Theatre by Candlelight" production of three TWalker Theatre hosts "LAUGHIN' ON THE AVENUE," one-act mysteries titled "DECEIVED, DOOMED AND from 8 to 10 p.m. Advance admission price is $10. There will be DEPARTED." Featuring three groups of people trapped in isolat a cash bar. Call or visit the website for more information. ed areas amid mounting terror, the plays are performed in differ ent candlelit rooms of the home, while audience members rotate • CENTRAL LIBRARY rooms to experience suspense and intrigue. Performances are unday. May 4. Local artist Daryl Pyle will lead a "COMIC scheduled for 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, April 25-26 and May SDRAWING WORKSHOP," focusing on creating cartoons, 2-3, with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4. comics, doodles and captions. Children of all ages are invited. Tickets are $18 and $15 for members, seniors and students. Call This program will be held in the Learning Curve at 2 p.m. 631-1888 for required reservations. Registration for this free event is required by calling the library. • MORRIS-BUTLER HOUSE onday. May 5. Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with the stirring aturday. May 10. Visitors are invited to spend a relaxing M"SOUNDS OF DUO DIEZ." Violist Donna Clark and gui Safternoon celebrating the women in their life. The tarist Espen Jensen will delight listeners with their unique blend "MOTHER'S DAY TEA" is described as "a perfect way to pam of Latin American music. The performance begins at 6 p.m. and per the women you love and admire." A meal accompanied by tea is free to the public. will be followed by a guided tour of the Morris-Butler House Museum and garden. Two tea times are available - 1 to 3 p.m. hursday. May 8. Adults and teens alike are invited to sit in and 4 to 6 p.m. Tickets are $20 for Historic Landmarks members, Ton the RACING CAN BE MURDER AUTHOR TALK, $25 for non-members. Reservations required. as a group of contemporary mystery writers discuss their collec tion of nineteen stories included in the book, "Racing Can Be Murder." This free group discussion begins at 7 p.m. • PROPYLEAEUM riday. May 9. The Propylaeum is hosting "AN ELEGANT unday. May 18. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the distinc FEVENING" providing visitors with entertainment, wine, hors Stive craft of making music at "BLUEGRASS ROOTS: A d'oevres and an evening of 10-percent-discount shopping among UNIQUE LOOK AT THE MAKING OF MUSIC " Randy over 25 vendors. The event runs from 5 to 9 p.m. The cost is $25 Lucas, master builder of steel string guitars and violin-maker Bill per person. Call 638-7881 for reservations. Banister will facilitate the presentation. The Banister Family Bluegrass Band will also showcase one-of-a-kind instruments while performing bluegrass and traditional country songs. This aturday. May 10. Visitors to the Propylaeum will be able to free presentation begins at 2 p.m. Sbrowse and shop over 25 vendors offering a variety of goods at the "BOUTIQUE EXTRAVAGANZA & AFTERNOON TEA." Doors are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with tea service • SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL ending at 2:30 p.m. Traditional tea sandwiches and pastries will also be served. Admission is $14.95, and $9.95 for those 12 and unday. May 18. The Indianapolis School of Ballet presents a under. Reservations recommended at 638-7881. Sone-day performance of "MAY WE DANCE!" at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. The mixed repertoire program includes unday. May 11. The Propylaeum will host its annual selections from Tchaikovsky, Hoist and Lagaan, while also featur S"MOTHER'S DAY BUFFET" prepared by Chef Mike. ing the work of the ISB's Pre-Professional and Young Children's Tickets are $22, $15 for those 12 and under. Various seating times programs as well as guest artist Justin Zuschlag. Performance available through reservation only, by contacting the office. begins at 3 p.m. Tickets begin at $20 for adults and $15 for chil dren, students with ID and senior citizens. For additional infor mation, contact 955-7525 or www.indyballet.org. • • INDIANA HISTORY CENTER ednesday. May 7. From where does the word "Hoosier" Wcome? Many possible answers exist to this simple ques tion. Hanover College professor Jonathan Clark Smith does not >_) profess to know "THE MEANING OF THE WORD," but his Locations and contact information for the research gets us closer to solving one of the most perplexing venues featured in "Events," "On Stage" and "Galleries" mysteries in Indiana history. The presentation runs from noon to can be found in "News" on the Urban Times website at 1 p.m. and is free of charge. Contact the History Center for more www.brookspublications.com. information. MAY 2008 E"! URBAN TIMES O^ denly everyone in the world wants a piece. Six actors play over would these famous figures say to each other upon meeting 80 roles is a fast-paced, futuristic satire of class, race, and greed today? The family-friendly production will be staged Fridays and in a country going to dangerous lengths to keep the cheap crude Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through Sunday, flowing. Contact the box office for additional information, includ May 18. Tickets are $12, while children 16 and younger are ing show times and ticket prices. admitted free with a paying adult. The theater is located at 525 N. Illinois St. For additional infonnation, call 201-3436. Q^)n stage • THEATRE ON THE SQUARE uesday. May 6. Local performer Taylor Martin will emcee Tthe latest installment of INDY MAGIC MONTHLY at Theatre on the Square. Among the local and national magicians and variety artists appearance this month are Sean Scott and Chris Henderson. Doors open at 7 p.m. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. • EPILOGUE PLAYERS Tickets are $15 for adults, $7 for children 12 and under. A group of family tickets (for up to five individuals) is $35. For more pening Friday. May 2. Three women residing at an assisted information call 431-1320. Oliving facility discuss their lives in "THREE BELLES OF Gall EDEN." One in particular reminisces about a man she loved many years ago. Discovering he is ironically moving to the facili • INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE ty, she fantasizes they might reunite. The still charming gentle man eventually arrives, but with a disagreeable, sick wife in tow. hrough Saturday. May 3. IRT celebrates James Still's 10- • iMOCA year anniversary as playwright-in-residence with the The plot takes a diabolical twist and things somehow don't quite T ontinuing in May. Playing off the title of the Louis Jordan turn out as planned. This production runs through Sunday, May Mainstage return of "LOOKING OVER THE PRESIDENT'S SHOULDER." Native Hoosier Alonzo Fields aspired to be an Csong, "IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN'T" explores what it is 18. For more information, including show times and ticket prices, to be human and helps us understand ourselves through what we call 895-6734. opera singer but, through a twist of fate, found himself working at the White House where he remained for 21 years as Chief Butler. "are not" via a collection of seven video works, ranging from Using memories and music, he introduces a cavalcade of charac satirical to heartbreaking. Viewings of this and all other exhibits ters: presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and movie stars in this at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art are free and • AMERICAN CABARET THEATRE fascinating play. Adult tickets begin at $32, with discounts for open to the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday. Contact the museum for additional information, includ hrough Sunday. June 1. Ron Spencer - founder and artistic students, seniors, military personnel and groups often or more. ing installation dates. Tdirector of Theatre on the Square - is now appearing a cou Contact the box office to purchase tickets and for additional ple blocks down Mass Ave as the male lead in information, including show times. "VICTOR/VICTORIA," on the American Cabaret Theatre stage. • HARRISON CENTER The production of the Indianapolis stage premiere of the adapta hrough Sunday. May 11. IRT continues its celebration of tion of Blake Edwards' book and its hit movie, tells the story of TJames Still's 10-year anniversary as playwright-in-residence pening Friday. May 2. The Harrison Center for the Arts penniless soprano Victoria, who conspires with a gay impresario by presenting "IRON KISSES." Barbara, Bill and their parents Opresents "R-VALUE: REVIVE RESTORE REUSE," a to disguise herself as "Victor" and coincidentally, becomes come to grips with situations that test their sense of unconditional group show featuring the work of local artists. Also at this event; famous in Paris. Other cast members include Dave Ruark, who love, such as contemporary gay issues, family expectations, aging Historic Landmarks of Indiana will unveil its 2008 top ten list of has had star turns at every theater in the Mass Ave district, and and more. Using two actors to play all the family members, Still endangered Indiana sites, while exhibited artwork will tell the current ACT regular Karlton D. Turner. Performances of this has created a play that gives these subjects a fresh twist. Adult stories of the historic, endangered places. The evening begins at 6 warm, humorous and wildly energetic look at the nature of love, tickets begin at $32, with discounts for students, seniors, military p.m., with an artist reception which ends at 10 p.m. Across from gender perceptions and the battle of the sexes take place Fridays personnel and groups often or more. Contact the box office to the gallery, a documentary, "THE COURTHOUSE GIRLS OF and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets are $25 purchase tickets and for additional information, including show FARMLAND," will be screened from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Both events and $30; $20 for students (under 18) and seniors (over 60). times. are free to the public. The artwork will remain until Saturday, Discounted tickets for groups of 20 or more are available, as are May 31. Contact the center for more information. theatre buyout and rental rates. • FREEMASON HALL • RUSCHMAN GALLERY • PHOENIX THEATRE pening Friday. May 2. The stage adaptation of Steve OAllen's scripted public television series, "MEETING OF pening Friday. May 2. Ruschman Gallery will host hrough Sunday. May 4. When an African-American factory MINDS," brings history to life on the Freemason Hall Theater O"WORKS ON PAPER," a selection of new works by Tworker buys an oil rig on eBay hoping to bring in the money stage. Historic figures ranging from Galileo to Emily Dickenson gallery artists including: Dorothy Stites Alig, Craig Hood, Jane he needs to send his son to college, his neighbors think he's to Attila the Hun are in for a lively evening of discussion at Steve Everhart, Tim Kennedy, Tamar Kander and Arne Kvaalen. crazy. When he strikes "BLACK GOLD" in his backyard, sud Allen's home, in this Stage Actors Workshop production. What The exhibition includes landscape, figurative and abstract • Mellow Jazz Sunday thru Cit E Art <&-Architectural Thursday Art Architectural Salvage Antiqo*s • • Seeds Food Fun 8:30-11:30 p.m. Hot Jazz Mgy is the 3E Friday & Saturday 10:30 p.m. -2 a.m. month to gghfen in Inch' .n.. Celebrate the emergence of spring at Join us for a •^More than Cit E Scapes, your downtown year-round two dozen fine Craft Beer garden center. Call 624-934-4- ot come to wines available 1230 S. Meridian St. and let us help you by the glass Tasting create your gardening dreams come true. ^An ever- Wednesday, May 28 changing 6 p.m. - with food, too Store hours for May and June: Tuesday through selection of Saturday 9-7 and Sunday 9-5. Closed Mondays seasonal & Chek out our full schedule at chatterboxjazz.com specialty beers 1230 S. Meridian St. a block south of Shapiro's CHATTERBOX JAZZ CLUB 435 Massachusetts Ave. David Andrichik 624-9344 www.citescapes.com Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 636-0584 Proprietor MAY 2008 52 URBAN TIMES • compositions in a variety of styles and media. The exhibition coincides with the First Friday Art Tour, 5 to 9 p.m. and is free to weekend of Aug. 7-9. Tuition is SI 70 for students in grades the public and continues through Saturday, May 24. For more 1-4 and S250 for grades 5-12. Discounts are available for information, contact the gallery. those paying before May 1 .Registration forms can be down loaded from www.yatkids.org. Call 614-5057 for more • AV FRAMING GALLERY information. pening Friday. May 2. AV Framing Gallery welcomes wo three-hour classes on PORCELAIN- and CHINA- Omembers of INFiber for a juried exhibition of textile art in TPAINTING will be offered at the Propylaeum on "FIBER OPTICS," showing in May. Selected pieces range from Arts Eitc. Thursdays, March 8 and 15. Each class will begin at 6 p.m. wearable, to sculptural, to quilted pieces with texture and color to Students will learn to paint, fire and display an eight-inch feel and see. Many of the 11 artists will take part in the opening porcelain plate. Cost is S60, which includes supplies. Sign reception from 5 to 9 p.m. This new take on textiles will be on Acting classes to begin soon up deadline is May 1. LATIN DANCE classes are also display until Saturday, May 31. Call the gallery for more informa offered at the Propylaeum. with open and continuous regis tion. ONDAY, JUNE 16, IS OPENING DAY FOR THE Msummer session at Young Actors Theatre, now head tration. Instructors are Andres Figueroa and Virginia quartered in the Athenaeum. The session runs Mondays, Ramons. The Propylaeum is also the site of a CHESS • DOMONT STUDIO GALLERY Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. 9. Classes are 9 to ACADEMY, offered 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays or 2 to 4 10:15 a.m. for students in grades 1-4. Students in grades 5- p.m. Sundays. Cost is SI5 per hour per student. The instruc hrough Saturday. May 31. Pieces by John J. Domont - tor is Mike Gant. For any of the classes, contact Contact specifically, new begging bowl paintings entitled "59-66: 12 will attend classes from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Those stu T dents should bring a sack lunch each day. 250-2714 or marvin@languagecultureart. com for more NEW BEGGING BOWL WORKS" - remain on display at the information or to register. • gallery. Call 685-9634 for more information, including gallery All students are required to be in a show to be staged the hours. Opening Friday. May 2. The Domont Studio Gallery will host a "SHOE FLEUR" is a jaw-dropping virtual show of shoes, bags strange creatures. An artist reception will run from 6 to 9 p.m. on unique art event to benefit fhe Damien Center. A selection of and boots crafted from fresh flowers. This collection was opening night. The show will hang through Wednesday, May 28. Indiana's finest artists will come together at "CHARITY BY designed with the "sole" intent of intriguing the artistic and cre Contact the gallery for more information. NUMBERS," working with the legendary retro medium of "paint ative eye. Contact the gallery for more information. by number." Each artist uses his or her own medium and colors to • WHEELER ARTS COMMUNITY express personal style and creativity. The First Friday artist recep tion runs from 6 to 9.m. This exhibit is on display through • EN ROUTE GALLERY pening Friday. May 2. The Wheeler Arts Community will Saturday, May 31. Call 685-9634 for more information. Oexhibit new works from resident and guest artists at its semi pening Friday. May 2. New work in watercolors, ink and annual "SPRING OPEN HOUSE," from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Visit • DEAN JOHNSON GALLERY Ographite by Sean Riley titled "A WEIRD AND SURREAL artists at their homes and view their personal galleries or listen to INSPIRATION" will be on display at en ROUTE Gallery in the live music from Acoustic Catfish and Tonos Triad. Admission is hrough Thursday. June 26. "Reality with a twist" is how Harrison Center for the Arts. Riley's work consists of amorphous free. Contact the gallery for more information, including installa Tartist Michel Tcherevkoff sees his mind-bending images. washes, graphic comic book-style characters and a host of other tion dates. • Cheri West 517 E. Walnut Licensed Representative Located in Historic 882 Massachusetts Avenue Chatham Arch. 432-9632 Visible from FARMERS - Customized Gifts MassAve. - Welcome Gifts 8500SF Auto • Home • Life • Business - Sympathy Gifts Ready for - Centerpieces Fletcher Place Insurance Innovation! - Wedding Gifts P.O. 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As a child he was entertained, fringe festivals dating back 36 years, are Moffat said IndyFringe, MAMA and intrigued and amused, even fascinated by his highly skilled cabaret and street performers along Mass Ae IDADA aim to draw visitors from Central grandfather's magic tricks. His mother made and bring with them a touch of the absurd, Indiana and promote Mass Ave as a unique him a little magician's outfit complete with circus sideshow, stand-up comedy and cabaret ASS AVE WILL BE EVEN MORE and colorful destination hosting an interna cape. He continued to perform or, more so, noir humor. Not only will they perform in colorful during the month of tional theater festival "in the heart of an show off and be the center of attention. A few theaters, they will also take the streets as tra August, thanks to a "Fast Track eclectic mix of locally owned and operated M acting classes along with Circus School in ditional buskers for free public appearances," Grant" from the Indianapolis Cultural bars and restaurants, retail boutiques, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, and the Moffat said. Development Commission. The $6,800 unique gifts, top-notch galleries and spas adjacent to Indianapolis' most beautiful show-off became a gifted circus and sideshow Here are Moffat's descriptions of the inter grant will underwrite feather-flag poles and historic neighborhoods." star. national acts scheduled for IndyFringe: which will be used to create a "visual thread" along Mass Ave. "This funding allows Fringe Fest to rent Baumann - "The Birdman" — was The grant was awarded to IndyFringe, provide a distinct sense of place for those elissa McNamara of Toronto, Canada: Tborn in Surfers Paradise, a Queensland in collaboration with the Mass Ave attending the festival," said Jenny M"Leaving Normal" is a solo show that coastal resort, to an Australian electrician and Merchants Association (MAMA) and the Guimont, director for the Indianapolis interweaves three characters: Eileen, a run an Irish tennis champion. In the Birdman's Indianapolis Downtown Artist and Dealers Cultural Development Commission. away searching for a place where she "fits teen-age years, the circus came to town cen Association (IDADA). Guimont added that the visual thread ele in"; Shirley, a waitress whose reality is rooted tre, Cavill Avenue, with a mass gathering of The six-foot-high sails will provide a ments will enhance the already lively in pain; and Bill, a bus driver constantly street performers - and that's where he started simple, colorful way-finding resource to ambiance that Fringe Fest brings to the steering toward hope. The show unfolds over honing his own original show style. The link the whole of Mass Ave and draw the Mass Ave Cultural District. of a series of bus rides, with the audience as eye and the tourist to explore all the way to Birdman combined this experience with the Another visual element is canvass art fellow passengers, journeying from one the 800 block, explained IndyFringe atrical and circus training, and countless works in retail and commercial shop win metaphorical "stop" to another through pain, Executive Director Pauline Moffat. The hours on park benches with the company of dows created by school and community acceptance and happiness. Along the way, color-coded Feather Flags will denote the pigeons contemplating the essences of exis groups including the Center for Inquiry, there are a couple of "speed bumps" that aters, galleries and retail outlets. They will tence. Baumann is now a highly unique IPS School 2. Mass Ave will also play host uncover the truth and turmoil behind the run improve visibility for pedestrians and for vaudeville humorist who has performed in to a colorful array of street performers who away, revealing a unique twist at the end. auto traffic, she said. every state in Australia and 12 other coun will create roving "street theatre" experi "Leaving Nonnal" is a unique blend of tries. "Separately we have limited budgets ences including mime, magic, music, tragedy and comedy wrapped up in a suitcase and are only able to provide public rela dance and comedy. • filled with treats. att Panesh returns from "across the tions and marketing on a small scale," Mpond" with "Stand up Monkey Poet!," described as "a darkly comic tour of the ijoy Shivram of the JG College of the world we live in and the things that matter Arts, Mumbai, India: An internationally tales of their time spent in honeymoon suites on various musical genres and kitsch aesthet B most: sex, relationships, debt, death, beauty, renowned classical dancer, Bijoy Shivram around the world, reflecting on the story of ics as a celebration of them. Said Moffat, ugliness, politics and religion. No stone left returns to IndyFringe with a show which their own courtship in the process. These two "Mikelangelo and Undine will be remem unturned. No punches pulled." Panesh's show blends contemporary and classical Indian Iron Curtain refugees are in love with bered as the cult hit of the 2007 IndyFringe receives five-star reviews, as well as walkouts dance. "May you be married forever...!!!" American pop culture, from rock and roll to festival and once again they come to us direct and refunds across the 2007 North American includes Indian Bollywood music, dance and "B" movies, but with little discernment. from the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland." fringe circuit. drama blending the rich Indian wedding tradi Mikelangelo refers to himself as the "nightin tions with modern trends. Bijoy will include gale of the Adriatic," while Undine Francesca he Great Gondos are Rani Huszar and wo transcontinental lovebirds, local dancers in his production, providing a sings of a 50-foot woman as someone else Daniel Oldaker, circus variety and side Mikelangelo and Undine Francesca, T wonderful opportunity for students and T might sing of love and death. "The show stars, specializing in extreme absurdity. return to IndyFringe with "The Honeymoon dancers to learn and perform under his direc Honeymoon Suite" is not so much an attack One of them, "The Golden Nugget" from Suite," in which they regale the audience with tion. • more. She said still others assist VOA with America are not only the beneficiaries of • VOLUNTEERS special events such as a Halloween party for IN APPRECIATION countless volunteer hours, ideas, creativity Continued from page 44 the women of Theodora House and their chil he St. Joseph Historic Neighborhood and energy. The organization's staff also wit dren, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mothers Day, TAssociation would especially like to ness themselves the spirit of volunteerism and women start to think in different, more posi Fathers Day, Easter, and Back to School thank Theodora House, Volunteers of community involvement. Their interaction tive ways. Natalie Harris, another business events. America, for hosting the Association with their neighbors, in the St. Joseph neigh woman, added, "Giving a small part of your "Several organizations have adopted Board and Member meetings, as well as borhood, is a very good example. time to others completely changes your own Theodora House, and contribute time, expert other neighborhood-oriented meetings Before the facility was even begun, the life." Ms. Harris and other members of her ise or material help," Pugh elaborated. One and events, ever since they moved in. administration was in contact with the neigh sorority teach business and social etiquette. such example: The Indianapolis Although the neighborhood association borhood association. They took meticulous And it's also enjoyable. "I don't know how Neighborhood Housing Partnership, which meetings are now at the Central Library, pains to fully inform the neighborhood not much they learn, but we sure have a lot of conducts workshops on money and credit we are very grateful for this substantial only about the facility rehabilitation progress, fun," quipped Linda Algie, a Mary Kay repre management. The law firm of Cline, Farrell, support over such a significant time but also about the organization itself, its mis sentative who volunteers her expertise and Christie, Lee & Caress, a Theodora House span. There is no doubt that Theodora sion, and its programs. supplies to teach the basics of personal pres neighbor, has made generous holiday gifts to House's presence in the neighborhood Since they've moved in, Theodora House entation. each of the residents the last couple of years, has made St. Joe's a richer and better has been an exemplary neighbor. It continues "There are a lot of choices if you want to Pugh added. "And they've helped us out, a place to live and work. Thank you. to fulfill its promises to run a safe and well- volunteer," said Sara Pugh, coordinator of lot, in other ways. And other groups often -C.K. kept facility. And it encourages strong neigh volunteer services at Theodora House. "Some come to us looking for volunteer experiences. borhood participation and volunteerism in its people work once or several times a week Not too long ago we had middle school stu residents and staff. providing GED classes, computer classes, dents from the Service Club at the 21st For more information on Theodora House crafting classes, Bible study, worship servic Century Charter School." program or on the Case Management Team. volunteering opportunities, contact Sara Pugh es, and assistance working at our front desk Pugh said the Theodora House program "But you don't have to join something at 224-2616 or [email protected]. For more and more." she said. "Others come in once or has been very fortunate to have three interns — already happening," she said. "A lot of people information on Volunteers of America, see the twice a month to offer movie nights, hygiene from University of Indianapolis, IUPUI, and come to me with their own ideas, as well." website at www.voain.org. and beauty sessions, interviewing skills and Ivy Tech - working with its Healing Families Theodora House and Volunteers of - Cathleen Krebs MAY 2008 54 URBAN TIMES MORE: ST. JOE PRESS In appreciation of volunteer spirit HE 28TH ANNUAL ST. JOSEPH SPRING Thank you to... Neighborhood Clean-up was a vast success, in • the 25 volunteers from the Hoosier Veterans Tthe view of the many participants. Not only did Assistance Foundation (HVAF). many individuals and households show up, but the • the 15 volunteers from the Starfish Initiative. turnout was seen as phenomenal, with many local • to the uncounted individuals and households. organizations providing material help. Thank you to... Officials of the St. Joseph Historic Neighborhood • Leah Orr for her expertise in coordination. Association offered the following appreciations: • Jan and Ric Good for breakfast. • Kathryn Hedgepeth, Dwight Lamb and volunteers from Hoosier Vets tackle the weeds. A A good turnout of neigh bors, plus volunteers from Hoosier Vets and the Starfish Initiative, made the spring clean-up one of the neighborhood's best ever. • Garry Chilluffo for coffee, and more coffee. Thank you to... • Caroline Laudig, for driving her truck up and • Arvey Paper Supply for paper products and down the streets picking up bags. heavy duty trash bags. • Jonathan Combs and Brenda Johnson for tack • Marion Co Health Dept for all the tools and ling 1 lm St and along the interstate. heavy duty trash bags. Thank you to... • Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and the City of • English Ivy's for the lunch pizzas. Indianapolis for the dumpster and 25 flats of flowers. • the Kammens and Garry Chilluffo for the burg Thank you to... ers. • Garry Chilluffo for the pictures. • Theodora House, Volunteers of America - for And thank you to... the use of their park for the lunch. • everyone else not named, but not forgotten. • A A very hungry crowd of St. Joseph neighbors celebrate after the morning clean-up. JOIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION Neighbors get new communication The following have paid dues to the St. Joseph Historic Neighborhood Association as of April 9: Individual & Household Jayme & Brad Moss Hallie Bryant & Deloris Hayes Leah Orr tool in form of 'Yahoo! Groups' Garry Chilluffo Nancy Otten & Dwight Lamb Judy Cunningham Steven Ryan Terri Czajka & Steve Hester Troy Payner & Cara Peggs HE INTEREST BULLETIN BOARD able to search for minutes from past neighbor Ron Denno Craig Ware service known as a "listserve" has come hood and Board of Directors meetings. That Dan Garrity James & Cathy Winkle Tto the St. Joseph neighborhood. feature is archived under "Files." Dave Gibson Organizations Organizer Garry Chilluffo said the message- Residents can join the listserve by going to Jan & Ric Good Buchanan Group board service is intended as a way for neighbors the group home page at http://groups.yal.oo. Joe Gwinn & Jenni Jegen Elbow Room to share up-to-the-minute neighborhood news, com/group/stjoeneighborhood. Then, click on Kathryn Hedgepeth English Ivy's Bob & Karen Hood Flock Realty concerns, crime alerts and have questions the "Join this Group" button. Those who Judie Hrycak Hoosier Veterans Assistance Foundation of answered. He said the forum is seen as a way already have a Yahoo ID and sign in, and join Joe Huffman Indiana for St. Joseph residents to share neighborhood the group as usual. Others can click on the Mary Rita Hurley & Gwen Kibbe William Kitchell & Associates concerns as "a lively and relevant supplement "Sign up" link and follow the instructions. Linda & Richard Kammen Odyssey Map Store to our monthly St Joe eNewsletter and the After signing up, residents should go to Cathleen & Victor Krebs Sonitrol of Indianapolis Caroline Laudig Volunteers of America, Indiana Urban Times." http ://group s yahoo. com/group/stj oeneighbor- Harold Mailand The "stjoeneighborhood" group is located at hood to join. By listing a current email address, members will receive neighborhood alerts. • Annual dues at $10 for individuals and families and $25 for businesss. Please send us your name, address, Yahoo! Groups, where neighbors will also be telephone and email information. Make checks payabl 3 to St. Joseph Historic Neighborhood Association, 238 E. St. Joseph Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202 New: Business members are now listed on the St. Joe ST. JOE PRESS BEGINS ON PAGE 44 website, accessed and linked from the monthly e-newsletter. MAY 2008 URBAN TIMES 55 Cottage Mil ___* I lift t J Home Neighborhood The Cottage Home newsletter cottage HOmeSbZood Cottage Home The Neighbor-to-Neighbor Market: Neighborhood Association Representing the interests of our neighborhood bounded by East 10th Street, Oriental Street, Michigan Street and Supporting Cottage (Home) industries Interstate 65/70. HE SECOND IN A SERIES OF paint, draw, photograph, The next meeting of the Cottage Home Neighborhood Neighbor-to-Neighbor Markets - sculpt, or complete Association is: Tan informal market of items home/yard improve grown, made, remade and created by ment/decorating projects 6 p.m. Monday, May 5 Cottage Home neighbors - will be con can come to the monthly at Marian, Inc., 1011 E. St. Clair St. ducted Saturday, May 3, in the Urban market and seek out the (on the first Mondays of even-numbered months.) Prairie at 712 N. Highland Ave. goods and services of The market runs from 9 a.m. to noon. neighbors who do. A workshop on transplanting indoor Residents were invit Board of Directors starter plants to gardens will begin at 10 ed through the listserve, Maribeth Bailey, president, 1324 E. 9th St. a.m. in the community garden, adjacent email and word-of-mouth Barbara Frain, vice-president, 1323 Polk St. to the market. to bring their goods and Melissa Fisher, treasurer, 1223 E. 10th St. Organizers also pointed out that folks service to the first infor Jay Parks, recording secretary, 556 N. Highland Ave. who don't live in Cottage Home are • Neighbors visit during inaugural event in April. mal market. Organizers John Harris, corresponding secretary, 716 Dorman St. welcome to join in the fun on the first hope that word will Judy Huntley, Saint Clair Press, 1201 E. St. Clair St. Saturday of every month this summer. many different talents, skills, crafts and spread, and more neighbors will come Bob Renaker, 706 Dorman St. People who would like to bring their hobbies among Cottage Home residents out with their own goods and services to Sara Olds, 1106 E. St. Clair St. goods to the market should contact - from gardening to tapestries, from trade or sell, as well as to support the Julie Rhodes, 554 N. Oriental St. Laura Henderson at leahenders@yahoo. baking to lantern making, from handy mostly local (community) economy by Doug Shoemaker, 9195 E. State Road 32, Zionsville com. Organizers also noted that the work to artistry - worthy of a venue at trading or buying at the informal mar ket. Joshua WooIIey, 556 N. Highland Ave. Saturday morning events will serve as a which to trade, barter, sell and ultimate way for people to visit with long-time ly support the neighbors in tliis industri The informal neighbor-to-neighbor neighbors or meet someone new. ous little community. market is intended to serve as a For more information on the Cottage Home neighborhood The idea came about during neigh Throughout the summer, neighbors fund-raiser for the Cottage Home and association: borhood strategic planning meetings in who do not have the time, space, or self- Neighbor-hood Association as well. To www.cottagehome.info February, as participants discussed how perceived talent to grow their own veg participate as a marketer, it is requested they could highlight the wonderful "cot gies, bake bread, make granola, build that 10 percent of sales be donated to Or: 460-6096 or send an email to [email protected]. tage industries" in the neighborhood. birdhouses or rain barrels, sew or other the CHNA general fund. • Their feelings were that there are so wise create useful household items, Home tour lineup: Each house has a story OLLOWING ARE DESCRIPTIONS KIRSTEN VantWOUD 938 N. Highland three-room cottage, with at least three sets of available at press time of homes on the Ave. is a work-in-progress, one of over 20 additions that brought it to its current size. Fhome and garden tour, set for the Cottage Home houses rehabbed by Billy Jensen purchased the house nine years ago weekend of May 17-18: VantWoud. Dating to the 1920s, the building and completely rehabbed the interior. He has in back once housed a grocery store. The decorated with antiques, family pieces, and • The home of MARK and MELISSA small size of this house with several additions his collection of panoramic photographs. His FISHER at 1223 E. 10th St. is a two-story made the property undesirable until meticulous garden includes perennial borders frame house built in the 1870s. Early resi VantWoud created a floor plan that converted in the front and back, as well as a hosta gar dents were the Marcellus and Hester Aldridge the space into a 21//2-bedroom and 21/2-bath den along the side of the house. The various family, who occupied the house for about four home. His plan reconfigured the breezeway pieces of carved limestone throughout the decades. They expanded the house and added and converted the store into a two-car garage backyard were dug up while expanding one of the charming L-shaped gingerbread porch. with second-floor master suite. Soon to be for the flowerbeds. Bricks in the front walk are Mark and Melissa bought the house in July sale, the home will be used during the tour as all recycled street bricks, and many of the 2005 and recently completed a major exterior a gallery by Cottage Home artists. manufacturers' names can still be read on the renovation, including the removal of alu bricks. minum siding to reveal long-hidden window • The home of TIM JENSEN at 812 N. trim and gable vents. Oriental St. was built in about 1895 as a • The home of KAREN HORSEMAN at 1118 E. St. Clair St. was built circa 1872. The • The LAURIE SILVERMAN home at 1 '/.-story Queen Anne vernacular cottage fea 946 Stillwell St. is a EA-story Queen Anne tures a kitchen recently remodeled by the clapboard cottage built about 1895. It is one attorney who bought the house in 1990s. of the few Stillwell Street survivors - only six of the original 27 houses on this short street • 602 Highland St. • The MARY JANE MORIARTY home remain. Unlike many of the poorly main 730 Dorman St. • at 602 N. Highland Ave. was constructed tained rentals on the street, this house was circa 1900 as a double, but had stood empty owner-occupied for much of its history. for about 20 years when volunteers from the neighborhood worked with Historic Laurie Silverman moved into the house in • For more on the Cottage 1991. The interior woodwork is original and Landmarks Foundation of Indiana to clean up unpainted. Siding was removed and the house Home tour of homes and the property and save the house, along with is now painted a distinctive turquoise. gardens, see page 28 the 1880s cottage on the back of the lot, from J The house owned by WILLIAM and Please turn to PROFILES, page 55 • MAY 2008 56 URBAN TIMES Avenue, facilitating grain delivery. The mill burned in 1918 • TWILIGHT • PROFILES and the location later supported a series of businesses. Continued from page 28 Continued from page 55 • CLAY BLEDSOE'S garden at 730 Dorman St. features a brick retaining wall built by Bledsoe, who also designed a 1875 and lived above the store. He acquired wealth from his demolition. The house features bamboo floors and doors and well-manicured yard to look good in every season. Winter numerous rental properties, including the five doubles across woodwork made of poplar, except for three doors that were attractions include berries and boxwood. A newer garage is a the street. The second owners were the Ratcliffes, African- salvaged from the original. Mary Jane, a potter, set up her backdrop for perennials surrounding a small back lawn. The American spinster teachers who grew up nearby. Architects Mudlarque Studio in the smaller house in back. small side patio is decorated with Adirondack chairs, potted Vonnegut and Bohn (also designers of The Athenaeum and plants, and architectural ornamentation. the former L. S. Ayres store) designed Ruskaup house, which ollowing are the gardens to be featured on the May 17-18 was constructed in 1891 and features five fireplaces, original Ftour: • The COMMUNITY GARDEN at 714 N. Highland light fixtures, carved woodwork (look for Ruskaup's initials • JIM CRAWFORD'S garden at 961 N. Highland Ave. is Ave. was developed by neighbors on one of five lots donated carved into a shield in the dining room and on the intricate an elevated garden established nine years ago, after being to the Cottage Home Neighborhood Association in the 1990s stairway), and a griffin behind the parlor pocket doors. transformed from a parking lot of a commercial building. The by the Mayflower Transit Co. When volunteers became weary The Ruskaup Grocery and Tavern, also owned by Dugger site is made up of debris discarded at the site over the last 100 of mowing, a more creative use was found by using four of and Garland, is open to the public for the first time for this years, providing an elevation for the property that is five feet the lots as an "urban prairie" and the fifth as garden space for special behind-the-scenes tour. Ruskaup built the south half above grade, unusual for the surrounding flood plain. The par people who lack space of their own. The prairie space features for his grocery in 1875, and lived upstairs with his family. An cel was the site of Blacks Mill (later named Ehrisman's "A" mowed paths radiating from the "Joe's Ladder" installation L-shaped addition expanded the building in 1885. Through Mills) as early as 1865. The mill extended over Highland created by sculpture professor Eric Nordgulen. • the 1950s the Ruskaup family operated a grocery, meat mar ket, and tavern. After prohibition the tavern became a confec tionary, and eventually a pool hall. Four apartments were OLD NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION located on the second floor. • 2007 Membership Application Please submit with dues to ONS Treasurer HOME TOUR 1338 N New Jersey St., Indianapolis IN 46202 Continued from page 28 Dues for 2007 are $25 per individual member (not household); $50 for businesses the neighborhood saw a whirlwind of activity as it became an Check should be written to: Old Northside Neighborhood Association official "conservation district" under the auspices of the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission. Neighborhood volunteers also created a playground. Momentum continues to Address: build as the area prepares to be removed from the flood zone and starts to see signs of new construction. Member 1: Tour proceeds will help the neighborhood association implement its strategic plan, including projects such as acquir Phone # Home: Work: Email: ing public art, improving the park and urban prairie, expand ing the playground, getting certified as a Community Wildlife Habitat, cleaning Pogue's Run, and continuing to make I give permission for the above information to be printed in the ONS neighborhood directory: Cottage Home a safe, diverse and family-friendly neighbor hood. • [ ] All of the above information [ ] All of the above except (circle): home phone work phone email address [ ] Please leave me out of the ONS neigborhood directory OLD NORTHSIDE Address: Continued from page 40 program titled "Welcome to Learning." Member 2: The program is a collaboration with Indianapolis Public Schools, involving 16 early intervention and English as Second Language (ESL) kindergarten classrooms. Welcome Phone # Home: Work: Email: to Learning (WTL) focuses on literacy and strives to increase student participation and engagement. WTL is delivered to I give permission for the above information to be printed in the ONS neighborhood directory: the students as a five-day arts residency. The April 9 program featured teaching artist Rebecca [ ] All of the above information Hutton and IPS School No. 67 teacher Toni Mahern. • [ ] All of the above except (circle): home phone work phone email address [ ] Please leave me out of the ONS neigborhood directory • BUSINESS Total amount enclosed: $ Continued from page 21 In 2007 l/we would like to assist the ONS in the following areas: yoga classes in America. Invoke Studio will host a summer 2008 YogaWorks teacher training program starting July 7. An Member information session and free class with senior teacher Carmen 1 2 Fitzgibbon of Los Angeles will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Land Use (historic preservation, zoning, etc.) Saturday, May 10. The full 200-hour program will run from July 7 through Aug. 1. For more information, contact Amy ONS Parks & Beautification (clean-ups, special projects, corner plantings, etc.) Peddycord at 525-6965 or amy@invokestudio. com or visit Social Committee (neighborhood block party, picnic, holiday gatherings, etc.) www. invokestudio.com or www.yogaworks.com. Garden Tour (to be held in June 2007) Welcome committee LOBAL GIFTS will be serving fair trade coffee and other Other Gtreats during two "coffee breaks" at the Mass Ave store at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, May 10. The event is part of a world wide "Fair Trade Coffee Break" to focus on the benefits of fair trade for farmers, consumers and the environment. Treats Only members are eligible to receive a directory, which is for personal use only. Memberships including chocolate, cookies and nuts will be part of the free are for calendar year. offering. • MAY 2008 URBAN TIMES 57 more than a dream and less than you euro loft furnishings think. 643 MassAve. 31 7.822.euro www.euroloft.net I N DZl___5ISa_ZZHZi:S TORICAL SOCIETY Experience history in a whole new way., Mr. Zwerner's neighborhood grocery store is buzzing about events of the war. Step back in time as costumed interpreters share details of everyday Hoosier life during World War II. Help run the store, fill orders and talk about war-time events. Also experience: History Lab and INvestigation Stations Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays Free Admission Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis (317) 232-1882 | www.indianahistory.org PRESENTED BY INDIANA'S STORYTELLER: CONNECTING PEOPLE TO THE PAST MAY 2008 58 URBAN TIMES Create some How many of us -"us" memories in our being the residents of the AESOP'S city's historic Downtown neighborhoods - really urban state park &,Lf know what our own state TABLES HERE IS A STATE PARK IN EXTREME park has to offer? Southwestern Indiana where flora and the fauna Tco-exist with oil wells. It is Harmonie State Park, founded in 1966 on land already encumbered by oil leas from the Taos Society of America await our es. The rocker-armed metallic creatures known as pump- inspection at the Eiteljorg? jacks seem to co-exist with the deer, quail and wildflow- The koala will be cute and a guaranteed ers - but make Harmonie unique in the world of parks. crowd-pleaser at the Indianapolis Zoo when PATIO But not as unique as White River State Park, where it returns on May 24 - but how many of us memories are made from experiences much different will take the extra time to learn about the from those we have come to expect from state parks. conservation efforts that have placed the Most of us undoubtedly have our own memories. For me zoo at the forefront of a worldwide conser NOW there's a high school senior class junket to Turkey Run Musings from the editor vation and research movement? State Park, where the Punchbowl is a truly memorable about life downtown White River State Park, the "cover site, where Boulder Canyon seems the perfect setting for (or just about anything e/se story" of this month's Urban Times, a slasher movie. he wants to write about.) deserves attention. Unique, for sure. OPEN !!! There's McCormick's Creek State Park, a favorite of By Bill Brooks Educational, certainly. Entertaining, my then-young son, at least partly because he got to see increasingly. And, for many of us, just a old pops fall off the waterfall. Good thing it's not a huge walk away. drop. Not like the 60-footer at Cliffy Falls State Park, a ^H waterfall the editor has never fallen off of. There's also Spring Mill State Park, where the Twin Caves leave an imprint, and where the gristmill stands as a visible link s chairman of THE ARTFUL TREAD, it falls upon this to Indiana past. Aeditor to come up with a panel of celebrity judges for Mass Ave's annual homage to the city's auto-racing heritage. Watch White River State Park has no natural landmarks, and few One slot is easily filled, because Christopher West, curator of links to history such as the 1840s Lieber Cabin at Turkey Run - the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, is easy as well. named for Richard Lieber, the Indianapolis businessman who There's a second two-timer on this year's roster: David Forsell, became the father of the Indiana state park system. (An aside: president of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, an organization which for a There is a Lockerbie Square link to this story: Richard Lieber happens to be an official partner of Urban Times. That begs the emigrated from Germany to Indiana to join two uncles, one of question: Why not Travis DiNicola, executive director of this whom was Hermann Lieber, who among many other accom newsletter's other official partner, Indy Reads? The answer: plishments built the chalet-style cottage at 407 N. Park Ave. in Travis is ineligible, because his wife, Elizabeth Garber, operates Lockerbie, and who was a founding father of Das Deutsche summer Best Chocolate in Town, an Artful Tread entry. That, and Haus, now known as the Athenaeum). Having been a leading because Travis has no artistic sensibilities whatsoever. citizen of Indianapolis as well as the architect of the state park We are pleased to greet two newcomers to the judging roster system, Lieber would most certainly approve of the uniqueness - Kim Hodges, the discerning director of development for menu j of White River State Park. Herron School of Art, and a big fan of what Mass Ave has to Where memories can be created, as well. A granddaughter's offer. And Nikki Sutton, whose credentials include being an first ride on the L.S. Ayres Christmas train, now an annual fea interior designer of considerable talent. But she thinks we asked starting ture of the Indiana State Museum. A walk or bicycle ride along her because we thought she was still skating with the Naptown the canal. A visit to the Indianapolis Zoo. Watching a Native Roller Girls, a pastime she abandoned because starting her own American ceremonial dance as part of the Indian Market and interior architecture and design company took up so much time. June 2 Festival staged each year by the Eiteljorg Museum of American She's not completely wrong about that, because in talking Indians and Western Art. about Nikki we get to mention her Roller Girls non de plume - But I wonder: How many of us -"us" being the residents of two words which would otherwise never be babbled here: the city's historic Downtown neighborhoods - really know "Smackie Onassis." what our own state park has to offer? How many of us have marveled at the evidence of prehistoric life - mastadonts, short- A disclaimer sure to become annual: Urban Times is aware FINE WINES & faced bears, stag moose - on display at the Indiana State _T_L.tha t Talbott Street ends in two ?'s - and that the first word Museum, or have gazed at the Gronauer Lock, an actual piece in "TALBOT STREET ART FAIR" ends in only one. Blame INTERNATIONAL BEERS of the Wabash & Erie Canal? Or the many examples and les the Talbot Street Artists Association, the artists' group which Lunch served sons surrounding Indiana's manufacturing legacy, from early sponsors the venerable event in Herron-Morton Place. They televisions to the Rumely oil pull tractor? stick with their spelling, but we refuse to misspell Talbott Street 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Haven't? You ought to. when referring to tlie city thoroughfare, just so the two will Dinner served And how many of us would long for a trip to Taos, New match. 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