Pembroke Arcade interior, Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1905
| Description: |
Interior view of The Pembroke Arcade, an early mall of independent shops and offices with ornate entrances and art glass windows on Virginia Avenue and East Washington Street. Signs promote the Indiana Fur Company, wallpaper, and parquet floors. The two-story, L-shaped shopping venue was built by theater owners Dickson and Talbott and designed by architects Vonnegut and Bohn. It opened in November 1895. The shops lined a light-filled central hallway with a marble mosaic floor and a barrel vaulted, structural iron roof containing 15,000 eight inch square white pebbled glass panes. Each of the 28 stores had a cellar, first-floor showroom, and a second-floor workroom or salesroom behind a wrought-iron decorative balcony. Independent stairways were located in the rear of every unit. The building was converted into a parking garage in 1937 and demolished for a parking lot in 1943.Printed on the front is Glanceotype Stereoscopic Views made espressly for the Kresge & Wilson Syndicate. Printed in Germany. Titled No. 13. The Arcade. Indianapolis, Ind. Kresge and Wilson five and ten cent stores operated in seven cities between 1900 and 1907, with a store opening in Indianapolis in 1905. |
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| Origin: | 1905 circa |
| Source: |
http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/D8C263B2-3196-407F-B60F-434065711465 |
| Collection: |
Indiana Album |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Geography: |
131-139 East Washington Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States 39.766619,-86.155144 |
| Subjects: |
Joan Hostetler Collection Stereographs Storefronts Arcades (Shopping facilities) Shopping centers Interiors Wholesale District (Indianapolis, Ind.) Indianapolis (Ind.) Marion County (Ind.) |
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