825 N. Delaware St., The Shelton, 1986
| Description: |
825 N. Delaware St., The Shelton, 1986 Yes The Shelton825 North Delaware Streetcirca 1925Historic Description: The Shelton is the first of four large downtown apartment buildings constructed by the collaboration of developer and investor F. Rolland Buck and the Foster Engineering Company. Buck was the son of a wealthy Michigan industrialist. He used capital that he received from his father to form a corporation for the financing and management of the Shelton. Charles B. Foster was a mechanical engineer who worked with famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright prior to his arrival in Indianapolis in 1919. Foster was the designer and patent holder on a structural concrete system called unit slab construction. This system allowed for such speed and accuracy that the outer shell of the Shelton was completed in only twenty-one days. Controversy delayed construction when a variance was sought to erect the apartment building. One determined zoning board member contested the application because he wanted to maintain North Delaware Street as a location for single-family residences.Architectural Description: Constructed in 1925, the Shelton is a five-story, five-bay concrete slab and structural steel building faced in buff colored brick. Its symmetrical main facade is plain, bearing only minimal ornament. The central bay features a projecting entrance with limestone quoining and a crest carved into the limestone plaque above the door. The quoins are echoed on the limestone window surrounds on all floors. Limestone string courses delineate the top of the first and fifth floors. Limestone coping also caps the crenelated parapet. Original window sash has been replaced by factory steel sash.St. Joseph Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1991 multi-family dwelling |
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| Origin: | 1986 |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/HT/id/3512 |
| 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 |
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