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Her new stuff is total shit, but her old stuff was pretty awesome. Why the hell did she become a slutty typical brat?

I really think that this is alot more than "bad shape" this two men have little chance of re-election, or being ever accepted in Seneca county ever again. Something tells me hard cash has something to do with this, but who would be paying to have it demolished? 0_o contractors? who? The facts are stated clearly, the state should take action against this decision, as it is extremely fishy.

Your joking? STL is NOT southern, it is midwestern buddy. I'v been to STL, many times.

Most of the victorians are from the second half of the 19th century, Indys boom time. No, its Avril Lavign.

I was refering to the urban renewal era, but that would have worked better. And I dident take these, the credit goes to Naptown from SSC.

Here are some Indy hoods(to locals lol). Enjoy! And NO, like usual, I did NOT take these. I tried lighting up this photo, and it ended up looking like a painting. I think its neat. The church on the right lost its victorian steeple sometime in the urban renewal era, for some reason it hasent been restored. Restoration anybody? I used to live in a house much like the one on the left in this photo. I imagine at one point this area was full of grand houses.. Thank-you urban renewal... agian.. So much peotential! This area was once the wealthiest part of town, now its under revitilization. This house, I cant tell if the shingles are original, or covering something much more appealing. Different area, the German huas, just thought I'd throw it in. ;)

Love the courthouse, the tower looks like one from a fairytale. Cute downtown, and in good condition! :)

Let's hope so...it would seem to be an easy transition. Indy is doing what it can though with rail transit, so I must give it credit on that front. Yeah, the lightrail system is under high debate right now, theres already a people mover between st.clair and the canal. I just hope that the light rail gets in as it could be a great asset to growthe.

I KNOW! The whole city just burned down in the 1970s or something lol

the downtown could use some restoration, the courthouse is gorgeous, but something tells me the dome wasent shingle.

It would... it seriously does, old north has alot of that italianate architecture mixed with victorian homes. did I offend you or something? sorry. Not offended at all...It was my way of joking with you Captain Indy. :-D thats miss captain indy haha.

It would... it seriously does, old north has alot of that italianate architecture mixed with victorian homes. did I offend you or something? sorry.

wow, that reminds me alot of the old north here in indy. :) nice pics, great neighborhood!

haha, urban revival bullshit advertisment. Like a 3 story apartment building is a revival, its just infill.

^^ we should all go and show our support of the courthouse, and all send letters, I mean, do they know the amount of support for restoration coming from all over the midwest, and the nation? Reconstruction is good, but not when it involves demolition of a historic building. The seneca county officials are morons to let this structure go, when will they ever get such a majestic, beautiful, ornate structure that shows the pride of the people in seneca county? Never, they can restore it, rebuild the clocktower. But how are they going to get funding for a new clocktower? Crawfordsville Indiana has been trying to restore its second empire 80 ft clocktower for the past 10 years and has only made $200'000. The price, $1000'000.

The avenues arent really wide. mass avenue, and indiana avenue defianitly arent that wide, or it doesent seem like it. Mass ave defianitly has a european tang, do probably to the duetsch haus, pattern and design of buildings along the avenue, st.marys german cathedral, murat temple, and the old fire dept. I hate driving on it though. =/ Thats why I could never find many of the avenues auto oriented, you have three streets going through eachother cuasing horrible waits just to cross an intersection, and the street doesent have that many lanes, so it gets packed, its just easier to park and walk. Cincinnati's downtown gets criticized sometimes for being too dark; primarily because the streets are narrow and the buildings are tall, with much of the original small buildings being in tact so there's not much light able to enter. I don't mind it though. Indys wide streets will probably come in handy if street cars are ever to re-emerge on them. dark, more like cool. I love that. Its very old world like I said, and the only neighborhoods I can find like that here in Indy are maybe the ones like lockerbie and st.joseph but thats it. Yeah, I am pretty sure that in the next century or even decade, the street car system could be put back in, putting use to the main wide streets(I also wish they would remove the tar and restore the brick{and cobblestone} streets underneath them).

oh now I see what your talking about, Yah, there are alot of wide streets downtown, it was part of the layout for the trolley system and open air markets, and as great as that was, it does create wide streets in the future, luckiely, there are alot of narrow streets, they just arent usually downtown. Yes, I LOVE Cincys narrow streets, it feels old world. Now, if Indy dident lay the streets out to be wide, and just said "this is where a street will be" they probably would be more-so narrow, and tighter(not to mention harder to drive in).

The avenues arent really wide. mass avenue, and indiana avenue defianitly arent that wide, or it doesent seem like it. Mass ave defianitly has a european tang, do probably to the duetsch haus, pattern and design of buildings along the avenue, st.marys german cathedral, murat temple, and the old fire dept. I hate driving on it though. =/ Thats why I could never find many of the avenues auto oriented, you have three streets going through eachother cuasing horrible waits just to cross an intersection, and the street doesent have that many lanes, so it gets packed, its just easier to park and walk.

yes, indy wouldent be nearly as beautiful as it is without them, they give a european feel, and I fell in love with detriots avenues and street layout. BTW about the wide streets, I wish my neighborhood(cottage home) had wide streets, its a pain in the ass going down a street that should be a fuckin alley!

not to start a fight, but what is it you dont like about Indianapolis?

those are just the main streets, more to the east the streets get much more narrow, and alot turn from asphalt to brick and cobblestone. Its a pain in the ass driving in that section of the milesquare. Even in downtown its only main streets that are wide, many streets in wholesale are thin and narrow, such as maryland street, or that one little path sorta road that curves right and left between unionstation and meridian street, and several other streets. But, the main streets were designed that way to also be used as open air market areas, major roads, large trolley lines, etc.

Heres some pictures I gathered from flickr, awesome eh? Enjoy the milesquare and connected hoods. :)

Its the Indianapolis I live in. :)

Gary is a sad case of urban deteration. The architecture in Gary is beautiful, and I would love to see it restored, but its hard to save the economy of a steel plant city.

Great pics. Those neighborhoods are beautiful When was the building in the last one constructed? It looks civil-war era.