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They should really restore the mansard roofs and clocktowers to those structures. I drove through crawfordsville Indiana last monthe. Their courthouse is a second empire structure, but the dormers and towers were removed in the 1940s becuase an artist thought the tower was leaning, when they actually dident check to see if it was. It took four monthes to take the tower down. But today they plan to restore the clocktower once funding is complete. Why cant those courthouses do the same?

I am actually in Richmond now, I am staying with friends on the eastside in the starr historic district. From what locals have told me, there has been alot of progress for richmond, and though it declined, its actually getting better. I took a walk through the city, its beautiful, alot of homes were being renovated in the starr historic district, theres a few just down the street being remodeled.

well, if you look, you can see that alot of the houses are civil war era cottages. Mostly built by Germans. And also a few italianate homes, but a majority are mid 19th century cottages. You cant see either of the cathedrals in the photos, except a portion of the German cathedral st. marys. This area is practicly a bubble of mid and late 19th century architecture in Indianapolis.

practicly all the homes built in the neighborhood are from the mid and late 19th century. As a whole, there arent blocks of pre-civil war houses, but there are several. That just shows examples of housing within Lockerbie square. The area is actually dominatly made up of 19th century structures. a few houses were moved there as so they would not be demolished, like the governors mansion. But, only a few, not many.

like %68 of the photos are people. Not pitssburgh damnit! erg

what a shame, those structures are so elegant, and so old world. An eyesore? what ever. That is a very beautiful building, even if it is rundown and boarded up.

thats great! That jewl is amazing! To knock it down would be stupid.

those commisioners are very sneaky, why would they chop down trees unless they want to knock it down? Cant these boneheads of town council people, just sell the current land to the citizens, and then buy some land to build a new one? Why must it be exactly where this one is?

And, it's not really true. I mean, parts of the neighborhood were platted when the city was founded in 1820, but none of those building are that old. The oldest photographed were probably built in the 1870s (Lockerbie), and most of the Victorians, apartment buildings and churches were built around or after 1900. The old governors mansion built in the 1830s is in chatham arch(one of the photographed neighborhoods) and several pre-civil war houses, and old commercial buildings. As far as around 1900, very false, most of the italianate commercial structures, german huas, etc, were built in the mid 19th century, and late 19th century, there are some early 1900s structures, but most of the structures in the neighborhood are from the mid to late 19th century. heres a link, a large amount of the historic homes were built during the civil war, are right before it. http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/kade/lockerbiesquare.html

This is Lockerbie square and Mass ave. It was settled in the 1830s and is on two of the oldest streets in the city, aging almost 180 years old, Mass ave and East street, along with other streets. The houses mostly were constructed by german immigrants in mostly cottage style. The area was heaviely german for several decades throughout Indianapolis history. Today the neighborhood is highly preserved and very expensive to live in, being only blocks east of the circle. I dident take this. But this neighborhood is about 180 years old.

We care because?.... I dont throw a babyfit when someone questions my agnostic beliefs. Avioding something that might slightly question your beliefs only shows your lack of faith in something, needing to never be touched for it to be true. Egh, good, now once less dumbass at starbucks! yay!!!

A bike, its a black mountian bike, not to amazing. Dont have any pictures, or anything.

I usually recycle alot of things, cans, plastic, paper, etc. I dont leave water running, and I use grocery bags for poopscoopers, I keep juice bottles to fill the pan grease then throw away, I dont burn anything(I cant, dont have a yard). I bike alot of places, I only use my car when I have to drive far distances through bad neighborhoods. I use public transit alot, and I scream at people when they litter, untill they pick it up, and throw it away in a trashcan or something, littering drives me fucking nuts. :shoot:

I just turned 22, and loving it.

They could atleast preserve the facade, there is a demand for space, but would it hurt to save the facade, and use it as the street level facade so it fits in much better?

how faddish, too bad it will be an eyesore in ten years.

I hope they can save it, it may cost more, but it will destroy that european styled beauty. History is timeless, and i highly doubt they will build something as beautiful in its place.

I live in an apartment. Its in an old building, so I have hardwood floors and tiled ceilings(that we had to recently repaste to the ceiling cuase they kept falling) and its cheap, so yay. And there ya go, no pics really.

it looks like London.

Yah, once my camera gets fixed, I plan to take many photos of the neighborhoods east of fountian square that are real jewels, and around the Old northside. I also plan to do a photo project of all the historical downtown churches(religouse structures.) We have alot of great architecture(especially late 19th century) that really is underrated. Like every midwestern city, we had our own 19th century boom aswell. If you drive through Indianapolis, there are many hoods from the railroad boom of victorian era homes, and then the major boom of the early 20th century that developed many of our american foursqaure homes. Indianapolis may be dominatly woodframe, but hell we look good. lol

Not really, dozens of neighborhoods make a ring around downtown that are filled with 19th century homes, and then another ring of early 20th century homes, and then a ring of mid and late 20th century homes, and the suburbs. The rings are very large, alot of retards will say Indianapolis is a big suburb, but thats not really true.

Hehe, I sorta stole these photos from your threads XD. I just got sorta bored. But yah, Indianapolis has dozens of areas that aren't photographed. The only problem, is my camera is broken, and the person I hired to fix it takes fucking foever.

So, here are some random pictures of central Indianapolis. There are dozens of jewls in central Indianapolis that aren't known, taking a visit can really open yout eyes up to alot of the beautiful architecture Indianapolis has to offer. These are random photos I gathered from online. Indy has rowhousing ya know. NOTE, this is not even a quarter of all of the beautiful downtown architecture. This is just a sample. lol

It's wasted on me, but I thought I'd throw it in for the nearly two-thirds of the forumers who are hetero men -- and the one lesbian, too, maybe. I suppose now on the next warm weekend there'll be a bunch of urbanohio geeks hanging around beside the river at Allegan, hoping for a glimpse. :roll: Great pics, but I'ma girl ya know. :lol: and no, I am not a lesbian.