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St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church

St. John's was the first Catholic parish in Indianapolis and played an important role in the growth and development of Catholicism in the city. The present St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church is a brick and stone Gothic Revival design, ...

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Majestic Building

The Majestic was Indiana’s first entirely steel framed skyscraper building. Rising to ten stories high, the building has brick walls and Indiana limestone veneer. The Indiana Gas Company constructed the building in 1895–96 to serve as a new business headquarters.

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Fort Benjamin Harrison Historic District

Fort Harrison was the city’s major military facility before its closing in the 1990s. Beginning in 1902, the fort served in a training capacity for two World Wars, the Cold War, Vietnam War, and other U.S. actions. For many central ...

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James Allison Mansion

The Allison Mansion, with its outstanding craftsmanship, scale, and landscape architecture, is a prime example of an Art & Crafts Country Era estate. The estate was home to James Allison, one of Indy’s most important automobile entrepreneurs of the early ...

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Oliver Johnson's Woods Historic District

Oliver Johnson’s Woods Historic District illustrates the remarkably swift suburban development of the north side of Indianapolis, from the 1860s Johnson family farmhouse to Tudor Revival houses of the 1930s. Indianapolis civic and business leaders built houses in Johnson’s Woods, ...

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National Historic Landmark - Madame C. J. Walker Building

Probably the best-known historic building associated with African Americans in Indianapolis, the Madame C. J. Walker Building is nationally significant as home to one of the earliest, and for years the most successful, black business empire in the United States. ...

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John J. Glessner House

In the late 19th century, Prairie Avenue in Chicago was known as "millionaires' row". George Pullman, William Kimball, and Marshall Field lived on this street in their impressive Victorian style homes. When John J. Glessner commissioned Henry H. Richardson to ...

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James Charnley House

Built in 1892, the James Charnley House has been widely recognized internationally for over half a century as an important workof modern architecture. It is one of the few major residential commissions realized by Louis Sullivan. The house is also ...

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Johns Hopkins Hospital Complex

Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), prominent Baltimore merchant and banker, amassed a seven million dollar fortune during his lifetime. The philanthropic bachelor decided to divide his money between a hospital and a university after his death. The committee formed to execute this ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site

This traditionally black neighborhood of several blocks in Atlanta includes Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he was a pastor, and his gravesite. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the nation's most prominent leader in the ...

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