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Board of Trade

In 1853, 36 of the city’s leading businessmen formed the Indianapolis Board of Trade to promote the benefits of Indianapolis. The next year the board published a circular detailing the… Read More »Board of Trade

Bobbs-Merrill Company

The firm’s roots can be traced to a bookstore opened by Samuel Merrill in 1850. There has been some dispute over that date—Jacob Piatt Dunn’s Greater Indianapolis gives two different… Read More »Bobbs-Merrill Company

Bohlen, Meyer, Gibson and Associates

Four generations of Bohlens practiced architecture in Indianapolis, and the firm, begun by the patriarch in the mid-19th century, was once one of the nation’s oldest continuously operated architectural enterprises.… Read More »Bohlen, Meyer, Gibson and Associates

Browning Day

Also known as Browning Day Pollak, Inc. (1969-1982), and Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf, Inc. (1983-2019), the architecture firm founded by James E. Browning and Daniel Alan Day in 1967 has… Read More »Browning Day

Burger Chef

In 1957 Frank Porter Thomas, an uncle of famed musician and Peru, Indiana, native, Cole Porter, opened a pilot restaurant at Little America Amusement Center to promote and sell the… Read More »Burger Chef

Burns and James

In 1926, Lee Burns and Edward D. James formed an architectural partnership. Both men were Butler University graduates, and although Burns had no formal training as an architect—he was a… Read More »Burns and James

Business and Professional Women’s Club

The Business and Professional Women’s (BPW) Club was organized on May 1, 1935, as an offshoot of the Woman’s Department Club, a club Luella Frances Smith Mcwhirter organized in 1912… Read More »Business and Professional Women’s Club

Capital Improvement Board

Created by the Indiana General Assembly in 1965, the Capital Improvement Board (CIB) is a public entity of Marion County authorized by Indiana Code 36-10-9. It finances, constructs, operates, and… Read More »Capital Improvement Board

Carrier Corporation

Carrier Corporation was founded on June 26, 1915, in Farmington, Connecticut. It is a leading producer of heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration equipment with a manufacturing facility in Indianapolis for… Read More »Carrier Corporation

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership

The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) is the successor to the Corporate Community Council (CCC), which had been organized in 1977 following recommendations from the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee. The… Read More »Central Indiana Corporate Partnership

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