600 Block of N. Pennsylvania St., 1986

Description:	600 Block of N. Pennsylvania St., 1986 [605, 611, 615 N. Pennsylvania St.] Yes Commercial Building605 North Pennsylvania Streetcirca 1900Historic Description: This small two-faced commercial building had commercial facades on both Pennsylvania Street and Fort Wayne Avenue, but the main face is on Pennsylvania Street. It appears to have been designed for commercial use on the first floor and apartments above.Architectural Description: This two-and-a-half story brick commercial building is four bays wide. The main facade has a storefront with transoms and two entrances. The second floor has a prominent stamped sheet metal oriel. Rock-faced stone is used as an accent for sills and lintels. The shallow cornice is corbeled. The storefront space on Fort Wayne Avenue has been bricked up.St. Joseph Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1991The McKay611 North Pennsylvania Streetcirca 1923Historic Description: The McKay is an Eastern flat style apartment building developed in 1923 by prominent local resident Martha Nicholson McKay. Though born in Ohio, Martha Nicholson McKay lived in Indianapolis for sixty-eight years. She was married to successful local businessman Horace McKay. Mrs. McKay was a community leader with broad interests. She was a founder of the Indianapolis Womens Club, an ardent campaigner for womens suffrage, and a political activist. She also had a successful writing career, having published a history of Indiana literary clubs and a book on the Civil War.Architectural Description: The McKay is significant for its distinctive trapezoidal building footprint, its reinforced poured concrete construction and its Art Deco style, a genre not often used in apartment design in Indianapolis. It is a three-story, six bay building on a raised basement faced in brown cinder block. It was built on a triangular shaped lot. Attached to the south facade of the main block is a one-story entrance foyer faced in painted cinder block with three concrete belt courses. The entrance resembles a Romanesque portal and is flanked by narrow vertical casement windows. The archivolt and tympanum contain bas-relief Art Deco carvings, and the jamb and arch are framed in stylized rope molding. The lintel is inscribed McKay. All windows on the second and third floors have concrete lintels and are headed with flat brick arches with concrete keystones. The building cornice features a pressed metal frieze that contains rectangular panels decorated with round and diamond medallions.St. Joseph Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1991The Grover615 North Pennsylvania Streetcirca 1913Historic Description: The Grover is an enlarged Eastern flat property developed by local builder Arthur B. Grover. Grover, a Harvard graduate, was married to Anna Wallace, the daughter of Indiana Governor David Wallace. Grover was president of an important construction firm, Harrison Construction Company, and was engaged in the Indiana real estate market as a partner in Grover and Layman. Grover was particularly active in subdivision development around the state. By 1914, the Grover was fully occupied, mostly by single, white-collar workers. Perhaps the most famous occupant of the building was Ray Harroun, a mechanical engineer who was living at the Grover the year he drove the winning car in the first Indianapolis 500-Mile Race.Architectural Description: Constructed of red brick, the Grover is an I-shaped building, three-stories high and eight bays wide on its front (western) facade. The two central bays contain a recessed entrance with an elliptical transom light and narrow side lights. The entrance opening is crowned by a flat, limestone voussoir arch rising from spring blocks. Second and third floor windows in the central bay, arranged in pairs, have limestone sills and keyed lintels flush with the facade. The flanking bays use triple windows. Two-story bays are topped with a ten tilled metal cornice. The facade is capped by a limestone frieze with large dentils and a limestone balustrade. The southern most section of the balustrade is missing.St. Joseph Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1991 multi-family dwelling
Origin:	1986
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/HT/id/3535
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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