By CONNIE ZEIGLER On Halloween 1913 Indianapolis was spooked by a strike of the city’s streetcar workers. Before the strike was over, armed strikebreakers and union organizers were fighting in …
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This feature originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of Urban Times. By CONNIE ZEIGLER The Cadle Tabernacle, an old-time-religion revival hall that looked like a Spanish Mission, once occupied …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER On March 25, 1913, the earthen levees holding back White River collapsed. West Indianapolis, an unincorporated industrial and residential community bordered on the east by White River, …
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One hundred years after the building at the corner of Michigan and New Jersey streets lost its original name because of anti-German sentiment caused by World War I, a plaque …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER In the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, Harriet G. Warkel, then curator of American art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, described that institution as “One of the oldest …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER In the modern era Indianapolis’s most famous minister would arguably have been William H. Hudnut, who, after serving Second Presbyterian Church for several years became the city’s …
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This installment of History 301 originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of Urban Times. By CONNIE ZEIGLER Indianapolis, these days, has a growing reputation as a city of fine …
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