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Many Changes in Indianapolis in Nineteen Years
The Sun recalls Indianapolis in 1888 with a skyline of small iron and brick buildings. It notes the shift from old to modern structures including the Fletcher Bank, Ayres and State Life buildings, and the rise of the Wasson and Claypool towers. The piece traces hotel growth, theater expansion, paving, gas, governance, education, banks, and parks up to the present.
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Indianapolis
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Teursyfvanti-sts
Pennsyvivaniv-st
Silin
Washington
Fletcher Bank
Saks
Merchants’ National Bank
Wuiassive L. 8
Wasson Building
State Life Building
Lemcke
Newton Claypool
Majestic
Century
Commercial Club
The
Law
Scottish Rite
Ayres
Traction
Central Union
Board of Trade
K. of P
Vance Brock
Indiana Trust Company
Lombard
Commercial
Columbia
Marion, University
Democratic
Propylaeum
Columbia Club
Knights of Pythias
Red Men
Masons and
Odd Fellows
Bates
Grand
Denison
Claypool
English
Henry Ward Beecher
Imperial
Linden
Lorraine
Occidental
Morton
Ohiost
Massachusetts Ave