Moving on on our tour of Midwestern neighborhoods and their relation to downtowns, we next come to the Lockerbie community of Indianapolis, Indiana. First of all, I had never realized that Indianapolis had a planned street grid, with radiating arteries coming out from a central roundabout (we’ll look at that sometime in the future). Lockerbie…
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Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis
The Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul was the only cathedral I was not able to enter due to Monday being the Labor Day holiday, but I was still able to view the exterior, which dominates Meridian Avenue north of downtown Indianapolis. The front facade is placed close to the street, so it sticks out…
Marktown, Indiana
Update: Portions of the town were demolished in the Spring 2014; see a house in St. Louis that looks similar to many of the buildings in Marktown. Marktown is the closest you’ll ever get to being on another planet on the southeast side of Chicagoland. It sits in the middle of an oil refinery, and…