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The Indiana Theatre is a historic theater in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1997 and is located in the Wabash Avenue-East Historic District. It opened on January 28, 1922. The theatre was built by Terre Haute resident T. W. Barhydt and was designed by John Eberson.
It encompasses 12 contributing buildings in a suburban commercial district of Terre Haute. It developed between about 1905 and 1954, with most built between 1890 and 1920, and includes representative examples of Commercial , Art Deco , and Classical Revival style architecture.
Its 21 acres (85,000 m 2) of tree-filled park land are approximately two miles north of downtown Terre Haute. A Romanesque Revival pavilion was built in 1894 by architect J. Merrill Sherman. [2] [3] The park's large main building with an indoor rental facility as well as outdoor shelters and restrooms.
The Terre Haute that existed on Nov. 18, 1978, and Dec. 7, 1979, didn't take itself too ... A city changes with its faces, places and events. Yet, the happenings of a certain moment influence that ...
Todd Aaron Golden, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind. June 3, 2024 at 8:16 AM If you knew him in the 1940s, you knew him as a standout athlete at State High, a World War II combat veteran, and a ...
Terre Haute Transit bus rides will become fare-free starting Jan. 1, 2025, Mayor Brandon Sakbun announced Monday morning. “This decision reflects our belief that access to affordable ...
Terre Haute (/ ˈ t ɛr ə ˈ h oʊ t / TERR-ə HOHT) [4] is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, [5] about 5 miles (8 km) east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 58,389 [6] and its metropolitan area had a population of 168,716.
A mob of white Vigo County, Indiana, residents lynched George Ward, a black man, on February 26, 1901 in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the suspected murder of a white woman. An example of a spectacle lynching, the event was public in nature and drew a crowd of over 1,000 white participants. Ward was dragged from a jail cell in broad daylight ...