Photo: Boucher, Jack E. · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
Station · Indianapolis, United States
Union Station
- Dated
- Dated 1886–88
- Declared purpose
- Union railroad station
- Today
- Survives, hotel and offices
- Build time
- About 2 years
- Region
- United States
- Architect of record
- Thomas Rodd, architect: about when credited (1886, born ). Build time on record: about 2 years.All architects of record →
- On the list as
- Documented
Hidden history
Found, Not Built
A Romanesque Revival station with a clock tower and a barrel-vaulted hall with a rose window.
A rose window
A great rose window lights the hall like a church.
Now a hotel
The station became a hotel.
Questions worth asking
- Why a church window in a station?
Possible original uses
- Station
What the photos show
August 1970 GENERAL VIEW OF BUILDING FROM NORTHEAST - Union Station, Jackson Place and Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN HABS IND,49-IND,20-3Documentation compiled a · Public domain
August 1970 GENERAL VIEW OF EAST SIDE - Union Station, Jackson Place and Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN HABS IND,49-IND,20-7Documentation compiled a · Public domain
Head House, Indianapolis Union Station, Louisiana Street and Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN - 543773054322024-05-29 17:22:58 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sources
Further viewing
Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.
