James Tyson, Versailles native and co-founder of Walgreen’s, left his hometown an impressive architectural legacy in the form of Tyson Methodist Temple.

Sandwiched between East Chicago’s hulking steel mills and refineries, the quaint anachronism called Marktown originated in 1917 as a planned community for workers

Goethe Link, a surgeon and a founder of the IU School of Medicine, was also an avid stargazer that in 1939 he built an observatory at his country house in northwest Morgan County.

The transportation history that shaped Cambridge City remains evident today in early nineteenth-century architecture and an annual festival.

We’ve heard of house moves, and we’ve been responsible for some, but none quite as ambitious and grand as the move of Lafayette’s Potter-Haan House. It traveled all the way from Connecticut to Missouri before coming to rest in Indiana back in 1904.

For an unforgettable view, drive into Oldenburg from the north where scenic hills frame the European-looking small town. Known as the “Village of the Spires” for the multiple church steeples that punctuate its skyline, the town offers a visitor experience quite different from any other place in eastern Indiana.

Nestled in the dunes overlooking Indiana’s crescent of Lake Michigan shoreline, you might be surprised to find five homes that once embodied the bright future of American architecture… and very nearly became part of its past.

In terms of public recognition, gargoyles outstrip grotesques, even though grotesques far outnumber gargoyles. Why is this? And what the heck is a grotesque, anyway?

Incredible stories of hope — and some of hollow hype — abound when talk turns to the Underground Railroad. Most of the time, examining a landmark for physical clues doesn’t help determine if a place was really part of the secretive and perilous network. Instead, look to its history.