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The founders of the Women's Improvement Club navigated a strictly segregated society to save countless lives during the TB epidemic a century ago.
Indiana's ill-fated second statehouse was acclaimed as “’the nearest approach to the classical spirit of the antique yet instanced in the Western hemisphere’”.
In Indianapolis, the Woman’s Improvement Club worked to manage tuberculosis among the city’s black population, independent of any public funding or assistance.
Urban planner George Kessler raved about the Circle City's diagonal thoroughfares and plentiful waterways, but bemoaned its hands-off attitude toward growth.
Records are scant about the namesake of a little park in Indianapolis. At one time, however, Frank R. Beckwith gave Richard Nixon a run for the money.
Over the holidays, there are homes all across Indiana where you can step across the threshold and find yourself in the nineteenth century.
The first African-American to represent Indianapolis in Washington was also the Circle City’s first Congresswoman.
A Gothic-Revival tour de force, the Nicholson-Rand House could serve as the archetype of the haunted house.
When the longest-serving Republican Senator perished in a plane crash in August 2010, obituaries recalled the Alaska legislator’s Hoosier roots.
Indianapolis-born Kurt Vonnegut always placed his alma mater--Shortridge High School--beyond the range of his trademark slings and arrows.