NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 Sacred Ground Help for Historic Houses of Worship HOPE FOR TOMORROW Plan for Chicago landmark in Indiana Dunes JUST IN TIME Restoring the Ayres clock FROM THE PRESIDENT STARTERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Eli Lilly (1885-1977), Founder OFFICERS Cheri Dick Zionsville LANDMARK LEXICON Hon. Randall T. Shepard Honorary Chairman Julie Donnell Fort Wayne James P. Fadely Chairman Jeremy D. Efroymson How Rood One Woman’s Legacy Indianapolis Carl A. Cook Past Chairman Gregory S. Fehribach NO, NOT “RUDE” BUT “ROOD,” Indianapolis LAST YEAR, LONG-TIME Parker Beauchamp an archaic word for crucifix. In Vice Chairman Sanford E. Garner Indiana Landmarks member Zelpha Indianapolis late medieval church architec- Marsh Davis Mitsch passed away. Zelpha was a val- President Judith A. Kanne ture, a rood screen separated Rensselaer ued member of our Heritage Society, Sara Edgerton the nave, where the congre- Secretary/Assistant Treasurer Christine H. Keck Evansville a group of people who have made pro- Thomas H. Engle gation sat, from the altar in visions to support Indiana Landmarks’ Assistant Secretary Matthew R. Mayol, AIA the chancel, where the clergy Indianapolis Brett D. McKamey mission through estate planning. Her Treasurer Sharon Negele sat. The openwork screen, Attica bequest of hundreds of acres of farm- H. Roll McLaughlin, FAIA sometimes elaborately carved, Chairman Emeritus Cheryl Griffith Nichols land in Floyd and Harrison counties Little Rock, AR always incorporated a cross or Judy A. O’Bannon © VISIT MORGAN COUNTY promises to be among the largest gifts Secretary Emerita Martin E. Rahe backed a hanging crucifix. In Cincinnati, OH this organization has received. J. Reid Williamson, Jr. historic Indiana churches, rood President Emeritus James W. Renne Zelpha joined Indiana Landmarks Newburgh screens appear in structures DIRECTORS George A. Rogge that borrow from Gothic design in 1997 and dutifully maintained her Gary Raising Cane Hilary Barnes traditions. An ornate 1930s rood membership in the years that followed. Her extremely modest lifestyle belied a Indianapolis Eric Rowland Indianapolis t the Martinsville Candy woman of great intelligence and vision. Following the deaths of her husband and Katrina Basile screen designed and made by Indianapolis Doris Anne Sadler Kitchen—winner of a restoration son, Zelpha entrusted Indiana Landmarks with the preservation of her farmstead, Indianapolis parishioner and metalworker Elaine E. Bedel award this year from Indiana which we will fulfill through a protective covenant. Her gift of property, when Indianapolis Matthew G. Stegall Edward Maitlen adorns the Richmond A Landmarks—you can browse for hand- sold, will add significantly to Indiana Landmarks’ long-term financial strength and Steven Campbell late nineteenth-century Grace Indianapolis Brad Toothaker made chocolates, but candy canes are ability to carry out our mission. South Bend FREDERICK DAVID BY PHOTO Episcopal Church in Muncie. Edward D. Clere the main attraction, especially dur- While Zelpha’s bequest was dramatic, Indiana Landmarks embraces planned New Albany Jane T. Walker Indianapolis ing the holidays. Made from scratch gifts of all sizes and many forms. We take it as a great honor to be named as a using the stove, marble slab, hook, beneficiary and to know that our friends and members recognize the value our OFFICES & HISTORIC SITES and recipes dating to the origi- work holds for future generations. 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To offer suggestions forIndiana Preservation, contact editor@ indianalandmarks.org. PHOTO BY DAVE DECARO 2 INDIANA PRESERVATION HOT TOPIC ing the House of Tomorrow, even more important. Once in Indiana, the houses sold and remained in private hands until the land they occupied became part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966. The five fair houses are listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Century of Progress Historic District. All were deteriorated until Indiana Landmarks partnered with the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore by leasing four houses from the park, then sub-leasing them to tenants who restored them. However, the House of Tomorrow, the most architecturally influential and historically significant of the collection, has been vacant since 1999 and requires restoration, estimated to cost $2 million by Bill Latoza, a Chicago architect and for- mer Indiana Landmarks board member. Given the degree of dilapidation and the price tag, we don’t believe we can attract a lessee, so Indiana Landmarks will undertake the fundraising and restoration. Since the House of Tomorrow is a place of boundary-span- ning significance, we appealed for the National Treasure des- ignation from the National Trust, which will play a key role in the project. The Trust brings experience stewarding Modernist masterpieces that used experimental design and construction methods, including the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, and the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The Trust can also tap its national network of people who are passionate ABOVE: In October, will spread awareness of our leasing about Modernist architecture to help ensure the preservation of the National model, which could help rehabilitate Futuristic House Named National Treasure Trust for Historic the House of Tomorrow. Preservation thousands of historic properties across FLOOR-TO-CEILING GLASS WALLS. AUTOMATED In the depths of the of Tomorrow to be restored for The restoration will benefit from the National Trust’s named the House the country and ensure the future of household appliances. An attached garage whose door opened Depression, George residential use, and will also serve as H.O.P.E. Crew, which trains young people in preservation of Tomorrow a man-made landmarks in places pre- Fred Keck de- with the push of a button. Ditto for the door of the at- a national model for the preservation crafts while helping to protect historic cultural sites on public National Treasure, served for their natural environments. signed the House of a distinction that tached hangar for the family plane. In the midst of the Great Tomorrow to pres- of thousands of historic National Park lands throughout the United States. will help Indiana The National Park Service has identi- Depression in 1933, the House of Tomorrow at the Chicago ent fair visitors with Service buildings throughout the na- Indiana Landmarks has worked with the National Lakeshore Landmarks save the fied a deferred maintenance backlog of Century of Progress World’s Fair offered millions a hopeful a new vision of how tion,” he added. on leases that have saved a variety of historic structures in the 1933 World’s Fair approximately $12 billion on historic to live, with floor- vision of a brighter, easier future. Over the fair’s two-year run, Chicago architect George Fred Keck Indiana Dunes in addition to the Century of Progress houses. house in the Indiana structures in its parks. to-ceiling glass Dunes National more than 1.2 million people paid 10 cents apiece to tour the walls, automated designed the House of Tomorrow “to Enlisting the National Trust in the House of Tomorrow rescue Lakeshore. “We’ll need lots of help to re- house, and it influenced how we live today. appliances, and an entirely upset the conventional idea of PHOTO BY LEE LEWELLEN store the House of Tomorrow, a After the fair, the house traveled by barge across Lake attached hanger for home” and increase the popularity of Chicago landmark that happens the family airplane. LEFT: The steel Michigan with other exhibit houses. Sited in what is now the The most influential modern residential design. The 12-sid- frame of the 12-sid- to live in Indiana,” says Indiana Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, the house is vacant and of the exhibit hous- ed, steel-framed structure employed ed house, built Landmarks’ President Marsh Davis.