![]() I climbed up an attic stairway and walked around up there taking pictures. The spectacular light court shown in your article was floored in for additional office space, with the top floor being given over to the heating/cooling system. He said that the basement had one of the first electric generators in the city in the late 1880s which powered electric lights within the mile square. He was kind enough to show me through his building, literally from the basement to the attic. Ober some 30 years ago, while I was working down the street in the Majestic Building. The Indiana Business College (later University) was also headquartered in the building for many years. For the bargain hunters among us, it was a sale we wouldn’t have wanted to miss. “The When” existed for years, finally going out of business at the end of 1922. Their factory was located in Utica, New York at 1-9 John Street. By 1882, they were also in Lafayette, Indiana and over the border to Peoria, Bloomington and Danville, Illinois, as well as Lockport, New York. The first few, in addition to Indianapolis, were in Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, Greencastle and South Bend. Owen, Pixley & Co’s “When” also expanded into additional markets. By 1879, they occupied four of the six store rooms and by 1882, the whole first level was dedicated to the store, better known by then as “The When.” expanded into the space formerly used by Fletcher & Sharpe. Not a full year later, Owen, Pixley & Co. It didn’t take long for the renters of the 5th storeroom to start eating into the real estate of the other shops. gentlemen’s furnishing goods, Eddy & West No. The first floor was subdivided into six store rooms, three on either side of the main stairway and the first tenants in those were: No. Not including the land, the building cost $100,000 to build. The Johnston Brothers put up the cornice and the plumbing was provided by Thomas Gibson & Co. John Martin did the brick work, Shover & Christian, the carpentry, plate glass and tiling. The iron work was done by Haugh & Company (coincidentally, related to the namesake Haughville), the stone masonry was completed by Henry Helm and Company. The interior of the first and second stories was finished in black walnut and the third and forth in pine. It stood four stories high with a slate mansard roof and a frontage of 142 feet on Pennsylvania Street and depth of 42.5 feet. The entire front was constructed of iron and columns stood five feet from the building, creating a colonnade and balcony. When it debuted in the spring of 1875, in a style one local newspaper called a “French style of architecture,” it had an undeniable “grand” look to it. May designed the Bates Block, which stood at 30-40 North Pennsylvania Street. By September, a local newspaper was comparing the look of the rising building to that of “the Potter Palmer House of Chicago.”Īrchitect Edwin F. would soon commence building a new block where “Sharpe’s Cigar store now stands.” The first brick wasn’t placed until June, and yet Bates still expected the place to be open by December. Newspapers in February 1874 announced that Hervey Bates, Jr.
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