1701 N. Pennsylvania St., Herron School of Art, 1986

Description:	1701 N. Pennsylvania St., Herron School of Art, 1986 Yes Herron School of Art [now Herron High School]1701 North Pennsylvania Street1906Vonnegut and Bohn, architectsThis site was formerly the location of the Elizabeth Tinker Talbott home. In 1902, John Herron, an obscure Indianapolis man, left a bequest to the Art Association of Indianapolis to establish an art school and museum. The Talbott house was purchased for tis purpose and was used until 1905. At that time, the house was razed and this three story, Neo-Classical building was constructed. The John Herron Art Institute building was designed by Vonnegut and Bohn, one of the citys leading architectural firms, and was completed in 1906. Sculptor Rudolf Schwarz created the portrait medallions on the facade. Herron School of Art, part of the citys combined Indiana University - Purdue University extension program, has used the building exclusively for art instruction since the 1970 relocation of the museum to its current location on West 38th Street.This brick-clad, reinforced-concrete-frame institutional building was constructed as a gallery and art school. The Neo-Classical features include an exaggerated entablature with parapet, cornice, dentil and paneled frieze. The frieze panels are defined by pilasters. Inside each panel is a limestone roundel; this on the main facade (south) are adorned with limestone portrait medallions, in relief, of: Leonardo Da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens, Albrecht Duerer, Diego Velasquez, and Buonorroti Michelangelo. Flanking these portraits in the two most extreme panels are exaggerated cubist swags. The building is further banded by a limestone water table and foundation base. From the water table rise the full-length, brick pilasters with limestone capitals and bases, terminating at the cornice. The centered, front entrance is decoratively framed with limestone and capped with a limestone hood with acroterion. The first-sorry openings have been boarded over.Herron-Morton Place Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1986 school
Origin:	1986
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/HT/id/2648
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 Neoclassical Revival

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