1022-1036 N. College Ave.-Buschmann Blg., 1975

Description:	On slide mount: Buschmann Building, 1022-36 N. College Ave in November 1975, Chatham, 1894, College Ave. (east) elevation Yes Buschmann Building1022-1036 N. College Avenue(also 647 E. 11th Street1896-98August Buschmann, founder of the Plumbing Supply Company of A. Buschmann and Sons, Inc., with his uncle William Buschmann, established a grocery company at the southwest corner of College Avenue and 11th Street in the late 1880s. They were partners there until 1894, when William withdrew from the business. August soon began to carry a line of plumbing supplies and later abandoned the grocery stock.The younger Buschmann purchased the land upon which the present building is located in 1891, and with the financial assistance of his uncles previous business associate, Henry Severin, construction began in 1896 for what is now known as the Buschmann Apartment Building. August and his wife, Elizabeth, sold the building to the Buschmann Building Company in 1920, taking out a lease for shop space on the ground floor for the plumbing supply company. The business remained here until 1933.Other spaces of the ground floor commercial area have been occupied over the years by other grocery and hardware shops, a hat shop, a dance academy, a restaurant/tavern with billiard room, and a barber shop. Although the building contained 16 apartments originally, today it has 30 three-room units.The massiveness of this three-story building is emphasized by its predominant materials: brick and roughly finished sone. The nine bays along College Avenue and five bays along 11th Street are divided by brick pilasters that rise above the roofline and terminate in elaborate metal capping elements (which now survive only on 11th). The two main facades meet in a prominent corner tower, which is surmounted by a pyramidal roof with deck that exhibits patterned slate and ornamental iron cresting. A band of five square windows serves as a transitional feature between tower and the main structure. The brick corbel table at the cornice level serves to unite the two main facades, as does the use of rough stone sills, lintels, and on the third floor, transom markers.At ground floor level on College, the six storefronts are divided by brick piers with high rusticated stone bases. Fluted wood pilasters divide the store windows from the doorways, many of which retain their original doors. The structural steel lintel above is exposed and decorated with rosettes. At the 11th Street entrance to the send and third floor apartments, a metal pediment embellished with an acanthus leaf design rests on corbelled brick supports. The two-story frame section built into the corner of the buildings plan was added at an early date as a warehousing facility.Chatham-Arch Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1982 commercial
Origin:	1975-11
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/HT/id/1190
Collection:	Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission Image Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Geography:	Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/4259418/, 39.76838, -86.15804
Subjects:	Architecture--Indiana--Indianapolis Built environment Historic districts Buschmann, August Buschmann, William Buschmann, Elizabeth brick stone lintels parapets

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