Built in 1898 of red granite, this was home to the August (Gus) Yunker Family, owner of Pearl Packing Company. The brick front porch and the back two-story addition are not original to the house. The original front porch had a gabled roof and...
The Woodlawn Hotel on Bass Lake near Knox, Indiana. was originally built in 1887 as the Chittick House, a much smaller hotel. It was probably the last functioning first-class hotel on the lake.
Church buildings; Methodist church buildings; Main Street Methodist Church
This church was built between 1954 and 1957. It is the latest Methodist Church built in Madison. The lovely church, featuring a beautiful steeple and bell tower, is on the far west end of Main Street.
Erected circa 1831, the first sermon was preached by Reverend Lewis Hurlbut. The first trustees were John Woodburn, Charles Burnett, William Robinson, John Pugh and Charles Woodard. The first sextant was to "sweep the church, dust the pulpit and...
Transportation; Automobiles; Mechanic; Waugh family; Waugh, Edward; Waugh, William
Edward and William Waugh are seen outside their automobile garage around 1920. Located at the corner of Grant and Calumet and built by Henry Gotens, it also housed the Chesterton Hall, the site of many town meetings and dances. According to family...
The original Washington Elementary School was built in 1896 and destroyed by fire in 1930. This 1932 building, located at Columbus Avenue and 23rd Street, was used by the Anderson School System until the early 1980's. It is now Liberty Christian...
Original Washington School building, built in 1896, on Columbus Avenue. This building was destroyed by fire in 1930 and a second Washington School was built in the same location.
These photographs of the City of Huntington and Huntington County were commissioned by the Huntington City-Township Public Library; Huntington, Indiana. Huntington County Courthouse taken from grain elevator east of Wabash freight depot. Built 1906...
The Hannells came to the Furnessville area from Chicago during the Depression and were founding members of the artists' community that flourished there. V.M.S. "Vin" Hannell was a painter and a wood sculptor who exhibited nationally and garnered...
This photo shows the First Charter building standing in the location where the present day library stands. There's also a house across the street in the location of the Syracuse School that would be built later. The photo also shows the general...
This location was previously the site of the Sulzer Brothers Drug Company Warehouse which was demolished. Marcus Sulzer was still active in the business when he died in 1939. However, the property was vacant in the 1942 city directory so we can...
This image shows the auditorium of the opera house. The theater was built by the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) as a memorial to Civil War veterans. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.
