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Excellent! In my opinion, Lafayette has one of the best downtowns in Indiana, better in some respects than South Bend's and Fort Wayne's. It has a dense collection of intact, preserved, functioning buildings from the nineteenth century, and a large number of well-maintained historic homes and churches from the 1870s - 1880s near downtown.

 

It's a clean, attractive downtown, and for a city its size it has a good transit system with digital reader boards giving next-bus information at major boarding locations both downtown and on campus. The relocated and restored Big Four Station is a transportation center serving Greyhound, Amtrak, and local transit services.

I love Lafayette, its history dates back to NewFrance time, when a small NewFrance trading post and native/french village was located there. The city is very intact, and very gorgouse with all the 19th century architecture, it is probably the most ornate historical Indiana city outside of Indianapolis.

Simply excellent!