By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor In 1969 one of the once-most-respected architects of European modernism moved to Indianapolis to take a job at a local development/architecture firm. The architect was …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor For six years in the 1950s the name of former Shortridge High School student Madelyn Pugh was in 11 million homes every week, thanks to …
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By connie zeigler Contributing editor This report was originally published in the April 2013 edition of Urban Times. This reprint was prompted by the global coronavirus outbreak. This year’s (2013) …
Read More By CONNIE ZIEGLER Contributing editor, Urban Times George Pogue was one of the first, perhaps the first, white settler in what would become Indianapolis. Pogue, for whom Pogue’s Run was …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor, Urban Times Oliver Johnson, whose family pioneered in the early settlement of Indianapolis, left a green legacy in that village that became this city. His …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor, Urban Times In 1904, the Highland Golf Club opened on land west of the White River in Riverside Park. The clubhouse that members built for …
Read More By CONNIE ZEIGLER During World War II the United States housed nearly a half-million German prisoners of war. Indiana had its own contingent of German POWs housed at several locations …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER If a friend invited you to “the Nash,” would you know where to go? You would if you grew up in the Haughville area west of White …
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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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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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