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...
This multi-level building at 304 West 11th Street replaced the elegant mansion that was the YWCA's first home. It was dedicated on April 24, 1960. In 2007, the building was sold to a local church.
This document came with the original plat of Oakwood Park. It was received for record on April 16, 1896 by J.R. Williams, the Recorder of Kosciusko County.
From the Madison Courier: "Jefferson County's contribution of scrap aluminum, collected in a drive to aid the national defense program, was taken today to a district depot at Seymour. Madison's donations, together with collections from out thru the...
Employees; Bull wheels; Quarries and quarrying; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
Worker stands next to a "bull mast". Though it was widely utilized from its inception around 1890 until 1910, it was quickly replaced by platforms powered by electricity.
Slide dated DEC 1985 of the date stone of the Wooster School. It reads ""SCHOOL DISTRICT / NO. 9 / 1876."" The brick and been painted red and the school was used as a house at this time.
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.
Theaters; Marion County (Ind.); Indianapolis (Ind.)
The image shows the exterior of the building. The theater was called the Woodland Twin when it opened and was renamed the Woodland Apollo adn Woodland Bijou in 1974.
We know little about this picture. Were the name "Wirt" not clearly defined over the door, we would not be able to identify it at all. There is a rail cart behind the gentleman and he seems to have what may be the mailbag. He may be ready to...
Winona is on Bass Lake and at one time had general stores, restaurants, a theater and a Post Office. Now except for a restaurant, it is residential and actually only a curve on the lake.
William J. Johnson, 1953-1918, and his wife Ida were the first Johnsons to live in this home, though it stayed in the Johnson family from about 1890 until 1945. After William J. Johnson died in 1918 it became the home of his brother David and his...
The white bus ran the route between Madison and Indianapolis. It is pictured here at 310 Walnut Street. It evolved into the White Star Line run by Bill Lockridge.
This image shows people on Syracuse Beach pulling a car from Syracuse lake after it had set on the ice over the winter for the "When will the car go through the ice?" contest. Earl Money, a conservation officer, is in the lower left corner of the...
Looking northwest from Meridian and 11th Streets, Anderson Drug Company is clearly in view. An interurban moves down Meridian Street on the edge of the picture. The Anderson Drug Company building was torn down in 1999. At that time it was the...
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.
