JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 THANK YOU for your contributions SIGNATURE SAVES High-profile projects GRANTS, Annual LOANS & MORE Programs fuel revitalization Report FROM THE PRESIDENT BY THE NUMBERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Eli Lilly (1885-1977), Founder OFFICERS Cheri Dick Zionsville Hon. Randall T. Shepard Honorary Chairman Julie Donnell Fort Wayne James P. Fadely Chairman Jeremy D. Efroymson nominations to National Help for Main Street Indianapolis Carl A. Cook Register of Historic Places Past Chairman Gregory S. Fehribach DURING THE 2016 SESSION OF THE INDIANA GENERAL Indianapolis Parker Beauchamp funded by our Partners in Assembly, Indiana Landmarks teamed with the Indiana Office Vice Chairman Sanford E. Garner Indianapolis Preservation grants of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) in crafting a new Marsh Davis President Judith A. Kanne Rensselaer grant program for the rehabilitation of historic commercial Sara Edgerton Secretary/Assistant Treasurer Christine H. Keck buildings. We had help in securing passage of the Historic Evansville Thomas H. Engle Renovation Grant Program from Indiana Landmarks’ two Assistant Secretary Matthew R. Mayol, AIA LEE LEWELLEN Indianapolis board members who serve in the legislature, Representatives Brett D. McKamey Treasurer Sharon Negele Attica Sharon Negele and Ed Clere. H. Roll McLaughlin, FAIA Indiana Chairman Emeritus Cheryl Griffith Nichols Grants from this program range from $10,000 to $100,000 Little Rock, AR Judy A. O’Bannon Landmarks and can fund up to 35 percent of the total project cost. These Secretary Emerita Martin E. Rahe Cincinnati, OH members. grants are ideally suited to Main Street-scale projects. OCRA J. Reid Williamson, Jr. President Emeritus James W. Renne Thank you awarded the first round of grants in November to 17 historic Newburgh for your DIRECTORS George A. Rogge properties across Indiana. For those who might be concerned to Gary participation! Hilary Barnes see the word “renovation” in the program’s title, be assured that Indianapolis Eric Rowland Indianapolis the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology Katrina Basile Indianapolis Doris Anne Sadler reviews all proposed work to ensure compliance with The Indianapolis Elaine E. Bedel Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. Indianapolis Matthew G. Stegall Richmond Steven Campbell There’s no question that the main streets of so many of Indianapolis Brad Toothaker South Bend our cities and towns need help, and in this first year of the Edward D. Clere New Albany Jane T. Walker grant program, demand far exceeded available funds. Indiana Indianapolis 6,0342 Landmarks includes among our goals for 2017 an effort to 1 1 8 2 4 increase funding for the Historic Renovation Grant Program. OFFICES & HISTORIC SITES miles driven by Indiana Landmarks staff to 1,500 site visits helping people save and revitalize places that matter We believe that it provides meaningful assistance and acts as a Headquarters Southeast Field Office Indiana Landmarks Center Aurora community revitalization catalyst. 1201 Central Avenue 812 926 0983 Working to establish and grow such programs, often quietly Indianapolis, IN 46202 Southwest Field Office [email protected] Evansville and behind the scenes, is just part of what Indiana Landmarks 317 639 4534 812 423 2988 awarded to 35 800 450 4534 does throughout the year. If the new year in any way resembles Western Regional Office $ local nonprofits Northwest Field Office Terre Haute 2016, be assured that we’ll have our work cut out for us. With Gary 812 232 4534 and governments 219 947 2657 Huddleston Farmhouse 91,464 your continued support, we can make 2017 another great year Central Regional Office Cambridge City Indianapolis 765 478 3172 for preservation in Indiana. 317 639 4534 Morris-Butler House Eastern Regional Office Indianapolis Cambridge City 317 639 4534 765 478 3172 Veraestau Northern Regional Office Aurora South Bend 812 926 0983 574 232 4534 French Lick and West Marsh Davis, President Northeast Field Office Baden Springs tours Wabash 866 571 8687 (toll free) 800 450 4534 812 936 5870 Southern Regional Office Jeffersonville Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett (center) joined to cheer the 812 284 4534 On the November restart of Indianapolis’s Ayres Clock, following our lightning ©2017, Indiana Landmarks; ISSN#: 0737-8602 HISTORIC CHURCHES Cover fundraising campaign to get the historic timepiece running again. Indiana Landmarks publishes Indiana Preservation bimonthly 19 PHOTO BY EVAN HALE for members. To join and learn other membership benefits, CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE IN LEE LEWELLEN visit indianalandmarks.org or contact memberships@ SACRED PLACES INDIANA indianalandmarks.org, 317-639-4534 or 800-450-4534. To offer suggestions forIndiana Preservation, contact editor@ indianalandmarks.org. 2 INDIANA PRESERVATION FREDERICK DAVID 10 MOST UPDATE an election defeated the demolition- minded mayor, a grassroots group, Revitalization Underway for Restore Old Town Greenwood, kept up the pressure to repair rather than Endangered Alumni replace the landmarks. Last summer, the city received a $400,000 grant WHEN INDIANA LANDMARKS ANNOUNCES THE in convincing IPS to delay demoli- Threatened with de- from the state’s Office of Community annual 10 Most Endangered, we aim to generate public aware- tion, giving us time to find a new terioration, vacancy, and Rural Affairs and paired it with and demolition ness about significant places in jeopardy. However, when we user. By the time Van Rooy Properties twice, Indianapolis’s $578,722 from the city’s redevelop- name the new list, the ones on the past roster don’t escape our bought the temple in 2015, water Phillips Temple ment commission and $193,430 from attention. We continue to seek saving solutions for these build- poured through the leaky roof and found reuse as property owners to restore downtown ings, and last year we saw progress at several sites that have the front staircase had crumbled. The Temple Lofts, 18 facades. By the end of 2016, 22 of the market-rate apart- carried the 10 Most label. company rehabbed and adapted the ments that opened 33 downtown buildings were expected Phillips Temple, a 1924 African American house of worship temple as 18 market-rate apartments, in 2016. The project to display rehabbed façades. in Indianapolis, faced steep challenges, including abandon- constructing an adjacent building repaired water Drexel Hall, a former 10 Most site ment, deterioration, and—more than once—the threat of de- with 24 units. Renamed Temple Lofts, damage and the (1999-2003) in Rensselaer opened last crumbling front molition. The original congregation held services in the church the landmark once again commands steps while preserv- year as the home of St. Joseph’s College ABOVE: until 1992, when it sold the building to another congregation. the street, a testament to preservation ing key architectural Office of Institutional Advancement. Wabash County while exploring new uses for the building. We may install our Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) bought the building in advocacy and creative vision. features. The college also launched a fundrais- Commissioners Northeast Field Office and rent excess space, or sell the build- PHOTO BY SAM BURGESS agreed to give 2011 and later announced plans to raze it to create parking for Downtown Greenwood also landed ing campaign to complete the interior Indiana Landmarks ing with a protective covenant if we find a buyer who wants the Crispus Attucks High School across the street. That’s when it on our 10 Most list in 2011, when a restoration. Built as St. Joseph Indiana the vacant Wabash entire structure. landed on our 10 Most list. plan called for razing nearly half of the Normal School, Drexel Hall has been Sheriff’s House and Listing a site as a 10 Most Endangered does not mean we Indiana Landmarks teamed with City County Councillor commercial district and replacing vin- a part of the St. Joseph campus since Jail, another former wish to own it, but sometimes acquisition is the best solution. 10 Most entry, when Vop Osili and neighborhood resident Disa Watson Summers tage buildings with imitations. After 1921 but spent many years deteriorat- it was threatened We agreed to temporarily assume ownership from CSX of the ing in vacancy before the 10 Most with demolition. 1891 Monon High Bridge near Delphi, an entry on the 2016 listing helped spur a community We’ll make immedi- list. We previously funded an engineering study of the long- campaign that led to the rehabilitation ate repairs and find inactive railroad span over Deer Creek. Once we have title, a use that ensures of its exterior and first floor. Later, we the building’s future. we’ll immediately begin repairing the crumbling stone pier to supplied a grant for an interior reha- PHOTO BY LEE LEWELLEN stabilize the structure. bilitation plan, the basis for the current When repair is complete, we’ll turn the bridge over to the town- BELOW: In 2011, alumni-led capital campaign. downtown ship, which will partner with Heartland Heritage Inc., to incor- After the Wabash County Greenwood landed porate it into the area’s growing trails system. Watch for updates Commissioners proposed demol- on our 10 Most on our website about the project, and make plans to see some Endangered list ishing the late nineteenth-century when the mayor’s breathtaking views from the bridge when the trail is complete. Sheriff’s House and Jail for a parking renewal plan would lot, the building appeared on our 10 have demolished Most list in 2014. The listing helped most of the his- toric buildings. The Indiana Landmarks buy time to find mayor lost the next a new use for the long-vacant land- election and last mark across from the county court- year, facelifts were house in Wabash. underway on 22 of 33 historic facades. Last summer, the commissioners PHOTO BY RAINA REGAN agreed to give Indiana Landmarks the building, as well as cover asbestos removal and assist with exterior reno- vation cost.