Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Pierre & Wright's Fire Station #18 on the 10 Most Endangered List

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Indiana Landmarks recently published their 10 Most Endangered List for 2017 and Pierre & Wright's Fire Station #18 is featured...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Drawings + Documents Archive receives grant to digitize the Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation Drawings

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The Drawings + Documents Archive was recently awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services Library Services and Technology Ac...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Art Moderne With a Bubbly Personality

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The Art Moderne commercial building at 2201 East 46th Street in Indianapolis is currently undergoing renovations that uncovered its or...
Monday, May 16, 2016

New Donation: Indiana State Normal School Library, 1907

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Today has been a day rich with donations that we want to share. We had to pick where to begin and decided we should begin wi...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Response to Drawings + Documents Archive: The Movie

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The Society of American Archivists (SAA) recently checked in with Drawings + Documents Archive's archivist, Carol Street, to discu...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Brookside Park, ca. 1910

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Located on the Near Eastside of  Indianapolis, Brookside Park was  one of the first two city parks in  Indiana’s capital.   The City of...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Drawings + Documents Archive: The Movie!

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Learn about the Drawings + Documents Archive by watching our new, LEGO stop-motion movie on YouTube ! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Monday, January 25, 2016

New Collection in the Drawings + Documents Archives! Richard G. Foltz Architectural Books

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The Richard G. Foltz Architectural Books Collection was recently donated by Walter Foltz, the son of Indiana architect Richard Foltz who...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Juliet Peddle, Indiana's first licensed female architect

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Interested in knowing more about architect Juliet Peddle? She is known for her Modern designs in her hometown of Terre Haute, Ind...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Happy Howloween from the Drawings + Documents Archive

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The Indiana Architecture X 3D project has taken a decidedly seasonal turn with its latest building and detail. Introducing the charmin...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

NEW! Snider & Rotz Engineering Records now online

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The Ball State University Libraries has recently digitized the collection of Snider & Rotz Engineering Drawings and Papers. The col...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

College Dormitories and the Roaring Twenties

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The architecture firm Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager built this women's dormitory in 1924 for what was then known as the Indian...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Scheidler Apartments, Ball State University

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Ball State University students are moving into their campus dorm rooms this week and we're celebrating this monumental milestone to...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Relax, it's still summer!

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      Despite the back-to-school sales seen cropping up at the stores, according to the calendar it's still July and nearly ...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Master Plan Development by Wright, Porteous & Lowe

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This summer, Drawings + Documents Archive intern Mitchell Knigga, an undergraduate in Public History and Historic Preservation at...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Lincoln National Bank Tower Flora & Fauna

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    According to documentation in the collection, the allegory represented in the decorations of the Lincoln National Bank and...