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Cornelius M. Alig

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120 Monument Circle

The English Hotel And Opera House, located on the northwest quadrant of Monument Circle since 1880, was sold in 1947 to J. C. Penney Company, Inc. and torn down to… Read More »120 Monument Circle

George Alig Sr.

(Feb. 24, 1852-Jan. 17, 1941). Born Johann Georg Alig in Affeier, Switzerland, a small village in the eastern Alps in the Canton of Grissom (Obersaxon), Alig’s family farmed and raised… Read More »George Alig Sr.

Crows Nest

Crows Nest is a residential area located south of Kessler Boulevard, west of White River, and east of Lieber Road. According to Berry Sulgrove’s History Of Indianapolis And Marion County,… Read More »Crows Nest

Fall Creek Place

Located two miles north of Downtown between 22nd Street and Fall Creek, east of Pennsylvania Street and west of College Avenue, Fall Creek Place was a neighborhood of substantial homes… Read More »Fall Creek Place

Lockerbie Marketplace

Originally identified as Block 22 on Alexander Ralston’s 1821 Mile-Square plan for Indianapolis, Sears, Roebuck and Co. opened in an Art Deco building at the southeast corner of Alabama and Vermont… Read More »Lockerbie Marketplace

Market Tower

Market Tower sits at the corner of Illinois and Market streets in downtown Indianapolis. At the time of its construction in 1988, it was the largest privately financed speculative office… Read More »Market Tower

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