Two people stand in front of the dining hall at Fairview Park

Description:	Two people stand in front of the dining hall at Fairview Park in Indianapolis, Indiana. Two American flags can be seen at the front of the building while another is on the flagpole on the roof of the building. Fairview Park was a 264 acre park that operated in Indiana from 1890 until the early 1920s. Started by the Citizens Street Railway Company, the park included a bandshell, electric fountains, a miniature railway, a merry-go-round, moving pictures, and deer and peacocks, which roamed free. The park often hosted traveling attractions such as the high diving horses, King and Queen, and in the 1910s, the Ojibwe reenacted Henry Wadsworth Longfellows Hiawatha along the banks of the Indiana Central Canal. Visitors to the park could bring their own food or visit the restaurant, which might be the dining hall pictured here. An Indianapolis Journal article from May 10, 1891, describes the development of a park restaurant called Shermans Pavilion, which was located near the main entrance to the park, and could seat several hundred people. At the time of this article, the restaurant planned to feed approximately 12,000 to 15,000 people a day during the summer, which shows the popularity of Fairview Park.
Publisher:	M. L. Photo
Source:	http://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BldgsGrnds/id/349
Collection:	Butler University Buildings and Grounds Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Copyright:	No Copyright - United States
Geography:	Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 39.838582, -86.174697 39.838582 -86.174509
Subjects:	Postcards Pavilions Restaurants Flags--United States Flagpoles Parks Amusement parks Butler University--History Indianapolis (Ind.)--History People Fairview Park

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