New Elevator is Building

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, March 12, 1926:  Construction has started on a mammoth grain elevator with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels on the Big Four Railroad west of Sloan Av, near Beech Grove.  The grain terminal will be one of the largest in the Midwest with eighteen giant concrete tanks and an elevator workhouse. It will be leased to Early & Daniel Co, a large Cincinnati, Ohio grain dealer, which has a contract for storage, processing, and handling grain with the Indiana Wheat Growers Association, a cooperative marketing subsidiary of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation.  Designed by local architects Bacon & Tislow and underwritten by Indianapolis financiers, the $300,000 (2024:  $5,425,458) project is being built by R. C. Stone Engineering and Construction Co, a St. Louis firm, and will be completed in time to receive this summer’s wheat crop.

“New Elevator is Building,” The Indianapolis Star, 12 March 1926, p. 23:6

Belt Work Speeds East Side Growth

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, March 3, 1926:  The rise of steel-reinforced concrete abutments and pillars at East Tenth St and the Belt Railroad as part of the city’s railroad elevation program will soon open East Tenth St into Sherman Dr and on east without the hazard of a grade level crossing by providing a safe passageway beneath the tracks.  This project is one of several intervals through the ten-foot elevation that has led to a record pace of progress in industrial expansion and further development of the adjoining residential district.  About 250 new homes have been built in the last year in the Shannon Park addition between Sherman Dr and Grant Av.  Farther east, other residential additions also are being rapidly developed.  Capitol Lumber Co, Marietta Glass Co, and Insley Manufacturing Co are among the industrial concerns expanding operations.   

“Belt Work Speeds East Side Growth,” The Indianapolis News, 3 March 1926, p. 1:8

Butler, Wabash Clash in Huge New Basketball Emporium

From The Indianapolis Times, Thursday, February 25, 1926:  The inaugural game at the new sport emporium at the State Fairground Exposition Building tomorrow night will feature a basketball clash between the Butler Bulldogs and the Wabash Little Giants.  Built for the local high school sectional tournament and state high school championship game, the facility is one of the largest basketball arenas in the world.  The standing room platform has been removed and with 14,500 seats surrounding the entire court, fans need not worry about getting a seat for the big game.  The playing hardwood floor is raised thirty inches to afford a clearer view to the spectators, and the press bench is a “hanging” affair on the iron beams above the bleachers on one side.  Both of these changes are new ideas and are great improvements over the past arenas.       

“Butler, Wabash Clash in Huge New Basketball Emporium,” The Indianapolis Times, 25 February 1926, p. 9:7