A recent tide of preservation activity suggests encouraging progress on Indianapolis’s Near Eastside, an area plagued for decades by poverty and disinvestment.

One of Brookville’s oldest homes is poised for new use by an organization devoted to history. But first, members will have to raise money for the restoration.

For preserving their historic farmstead in Lawrence County, Ann and Stan Armstrong won the 2018 John Arnold Award for Rural Preservation from Indiana Landmarks and Indiana Farm Bureau.

Friends of Historic Allen Chapel formed in 1997 to save Terre Haute’s oldest African American church. More than two decades later, the work is nearly done.

Following a two-year restoration, a new kitchen store opens in New Harmony’s historic Odd Fellows building — a formerly distressed building in the heart of downtown.

North Vernon’s historic Cone House was on the docket for demo before Indiana Landmarks orchestrated an 11th-hour save.

Wabash has long been a forward-looking city, and its thriving downtown shows the power of using preservation to fight decline.

A proposed National Heritage Area would boost preservation efforts on both sides of the Indiana-Illinois state border.

Most recently used as a museum, the Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple on Ligonier’s Main Street is for sale, with potential as a great home or office.