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Where We Live airs each week on the following public radio stations:

 

88.1 FM WVPE - Elkhart

Tuesday at 8:48 a.m.

 

88.3 FM WNIN - Evansville

Friday at 5:59 p.m.

 

89.1 FM WBOI - Fort Wayne

Tuesday at 6:35 a.m. and 5:44 p.m.

 

89.1 FM WLPR - Merrillville

Monday at 4:44 p.m.

 

90.1 FM WFYI - Indianapolis

Tuesday at 7:35 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.

 

91.1 FM WVUB - Vincennes

Tuesday at 7:35 a.m. and Friday at 5:50 p.m.

 

92.1 FM WBST - Muncie

Friday at 8:49 a.m.

 

103 .7 FM WFIU - Bloomington

Tuesday at 9:06 a.m.

 

920 AM WBAA - West Lafayette

Thursday at 9:30 a.m.

News > Where We Live

Where We Live

 

Indiana Landmarks introduces Where We Live, a weekly two-minute radio program highlighting historic places around Indiana – their stories, their meaning, their place in our lives today. 

 

Check here for text and podcasts of each week’s segment.

 

Atlas Underwear Factory

Posted: 5/14/2012

 Atlas Underwear Factory, Starr Apartments, Richmond
When Atlas backed out of the underwear business, the three-story factory building was retooled as 67 rental units for senior citizens. The building's apartments retain the factory aesthetic -- high ceilings, bare brick walls, and large windows. (Photo: Morrisson-Reeves Library, Richmond)

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What is that under there? Just made you say underwear!

 

In Richmond, Indiana, people have said ‘underwear’ with perfectly straight faces for a century. Blasé skivvy talk started there in 1910, when a three-story factory opened that manufactured unmentionables. The Richmond Underwear Company enjoyed immediate success and nationwide distribution.


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Listen to previous Where We Live segments

Atlas Underwear Factory

5/14/2012

Folded factory becomes senior apartments

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Saving vintage signs

5/7/2012

1950s "spectaculars" grab attention

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Harmony Way Toll Bridge

4/30/2012

Who owns this bridge?

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Modernism

4/23/2012

Modern houses reflect the optimism of postwar America

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Marktown

4/16/2012

The Region harbors an English village

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The Link Observatory

4/9/2012

Gazing at stars and flowers

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The Hermitage

4/2/2012

Brookville cabin is still an artistic haven

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Fowler Theatre

3/26/2012

Follow the neon glow to a restored community landmark

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Landmarks that fly and float

3/19/2012

Not all landmarks are buildings

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Scagliola

3/12/2012

The secret behind plaster "marble"

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Children's Museum of Evansville

3/5/2012

No need to whisper at this former library

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Reinventing Bush Stadium

2/27/2012

An innovative idea saves a beloved baseball landmark

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Levi Coffin House and the Underground Railroad

2/20/2012

One family's connection to the path to freedom

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Fort Wayne's Lincoln Tower

2/13/2012

Technology fueled a race to the sky (scraper)

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Lyles Station

2/6/2012

The inspiring story of one town's African American heritage

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Historic high school basketball arenas

1/30/2012

Hoosier Hysteria inspires a love-affair with landmark gymnasiums

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Juliet Peddle - Terre Haute architect

1/23/2012

Indiana's first registered female architect

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Historic Hoosier fixer-uppers

1/16/2012

Indiana has a lot of real estate at bargain prices

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The Bridges of Carroll County

1/9/2012

The iron bridges of Carroll County are safer than most because a coalition keeps watch over them

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Pokagon State Park Toboggan Run

1/2/2012

A reason to get positively giddy about winter

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Eli Lilly's preservation legacy

12/26/2011

We pretty much have one guy to thank for Indiana's preservation heritance

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Evansville Greyhound Terminal

12/19/2011

Community affection keeps 1939 station standing, new use will get it running

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Indianapolis Athenaeum

12/12/2011

The Athenaeum -- they call it the A for short -- remains a place for fitness, culture, conversation and celebration.  

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Century of Progress Homes, Beverly Shores

12/5/2011

Five buildings that prefigured the future of American homes

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Cardinal Ritter House

11/28/2011

A New Albany boy nicknamed "Apple Pie" makes good -- very, very good 

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A Tale of Two Depots

11/21/2011

Historic railroad depots in Bremen and Syracuse illustrate the plight -- and possibility -- in decommissioned passenger stations

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Whimsical public sculpture

11/14/2011

Landmark statues don't have to be serious

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Richmond Pennsylvania Railroad Station

11/7/2011

A Daniel Burnham-designed landmark is on the track to restoration

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National Register Historic Districts

10/24/2011

National Register listing may be an honor, but it doesn't necessarily save old buildings from the wrecking ball

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Historic cemeteries

10/24/2011

In the nineteenth century, "rural" cemeteries were popular places to promenade and picnic

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Second Empire Style

10/17/2011

Preferred by haunted houses everywhere, this handsome architectural style gets a bad rap

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The Courthouse Girls of Randolph County

10/10/2011

Members of Farmland's Bridge Club bared it all to help save their beloved county courthouse

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Frank Lloyd Wright's SAMARA

10/3/2011

A spectacular Wright design, inside and out

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George Kessler's City Beautiful

9/26/2011

Park planner and landscape designer George Kessler left a beautiful legacy

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Catalog and Pattern Book Homes

9/19/2011

Thousands of Americans shopped for their homes from mail-order catalogs

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Veraestau Historic Site

9/12/2011

Perched high on a bluff overlooking the Ohio River, Veraestau embodies more than 200 years of Hoosier history

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Monument Circle

9/5/2011

A walking tour of the Circle confirms its role as the heart of Indianapolis

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The Historic National Road and Huddleston Farmhouse

8/29/2011

Pioneers traveling west on the National Road to settle America passed right by the front door of the Huddleston Farmhouse

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Evansville's USS LST (Landing Ship Tank)

8/22/2011

This floating landmark could be the only seaworthy war memorial in Indiana

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Farmers Institute

8/15/2011

Sprawl could swallow this peaceful Quaker settlement

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Kokomo Opalescent Glass

8/8/2011

Not much has changed at America's oldest art glass company

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Muncie's Wysor Street Depot

8/1/2011

Railroad depots have been gradually disappearing from the Midwestern landscape for decades.

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The Artcraft Theatre

7/25/2011

Small town movie houses are an endangered species

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The Lincoln Highway

7/18/2011

You can credit a Hoosier for America's first transcontinental highway

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Vomitories

7/11/2011

They're not what you think!

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Taggart Memorial

7/4/2011

A monument to one of Indiana’s early leaders needs restoration before it deteriorates beyond repair

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Indiana's County Homes

6/27/2011

Some still operate, many have been demolished. What to do with these historic places?

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Mid-Century Modern architecture

6/20/2011

Today, Mid-Century Modern architecture often finds itself in the crosshairs of a destructive prejudice

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West Baden Springs Hotel

6/13/2011

From ruin to resurrection, the incomparable West Baden Springs Hotel inspires amazement

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On the banks of the Wabash in Attica

6/6/2011

A picturesque small town worth exploration

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Clemens Vonnegut School Number 9

5/30/2011

School 9 offers a lesson in how to convert a landmark to a new use that restores economic life to an area

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Gary's Marquette Park

5/23/2011

Think Gary is all industrial steel mills and urban decay? Think again.

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Mid-century Modern comes of age

5/16/2011

Modernist homes become venerable landmarks

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Colonial Brick in Cayuga

5/9/2011

The only place left in the U.S. making bricks in coal-fired beehive kilns

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Sylvan Springs and 10 Most Endangered

5/2/2011

A historic sanitarium joins our list of Indiana's Most Endangered landmarks

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Atmospheric Theaters

4/25/2011

Architect John Eberson's designed theaters to take you far, far away

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Gargoyles vs. Grotesques

4/18/2011

Not all fantastical architectural ornaments are created the same

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Historic churches

4/11/2011

How can these powerful symbols of faith and community be saved?

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Charley Creek Inn

4/4/2011

Restored Wabash hotel takes downtown revitalization to a new level

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Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University

3/28/2011

A historic gym symbolizes Hoosier Hysteria

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Mesker Company facades

3/21/2011

Evansville's George L. Mesker & Co. supplied iron storefronts to owners across the country

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National Historic Landmarks

3/14/2011

National Historic Landmarks represent the cream of the crop.

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Historic Barns

3/7/2011

Would it still be Indiana without old barns?

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