Indiana Landmarks News
Indiana Landmarks
Inspired by the town’s 2015 bicentennial, Orleans launched a number of downtown improvement projects.
KEEP READINGSandwiched between East Chicago’s hulking steel mills and refineries, the quaint anachronism called Marktown originated in 1917 as a planned community for workers
KEEP READINGIf you haven’t been to Cambridge City in a while, you’ll be impressed by the downtown revitalization. And there’s a building for sale that’s worth your notice.
KEEP READINGMarshall County Commissioners seek a new use for the National Register listed Shady Rest Home located east of Plymouth on the historic Lincoln Highway National Byway. Soft proposals for the property are due September 5, 2017.
KEEP READINGFLAVA FRESH, an annual juried exhibition series featuring newly-discovered, underrepresented, emerging and early-career visual artists, presents a First Friday show on September 1 at Indiana Landmarks Center’s Rapp Family Gallery.
KEEP READINGOn August 17 at the Indiana State Fair, Tim and Beth Sheets will receive the 2017 Arnold Award for Rural Preservation honoring their Howard County alpaca farm.
KEEP READINGMedia are invited on a “before” tour of the Coca-Cola bottling plant that Hendricks Commercial Properties will reinvent as Bottleworks, with apartments, restaurants, retail shops, movie theaters, and a boutique hotel.
KEEP READINGOn August 18 and 19, Indiana Landmarks hosts Reviving Baptisttown, a workshop and tour examining the area’s heritage, and how harnessing history can help revive African American places across the state.
KEEP READINGAfter years of admiring a brick bungalow in Valparaiso, Steve and Patricia Ingram can finally call the historic home their own. But that’s only half of the story.
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