Ransom Place Historic District

Ransom Place Historic District is the most intact 19th century neighborhood associated with African Americans in Indianapolis. The district was home to many black business leaders over its long history.

The area northwest of Monument Circle was identified as a ...

Holy Rosary-Danish Historic District

Holy Rosary—Danish Church Historic District illustrates how close enclaves of European immigrants settled Indianapolis in the late 1800s. These groups left their mark in churches and dense areas of modest vernacular cottages on the near south side of Indianapolis.

This ...

National Historic Landmark - Madame C. J. Walker Building

Probably the best-known historic building associated with African Americans in Indianapolis, the Madame C. J. Walker Building is nationally significant as home to one of the earliest, and for years the most successful, black business empire in the United States. ...

Das Deutsche Haus (The Athenaeum)

Das Deutsche Haus, now called The Athenaeum, is the best preserved and most elaborate building associated with the German American community of Indianapolis. Germans constituted a major social and cultural force in the city, and the opulent Northern European Renaissance ...

National Historic Landmark - Ford River Rouge Complex

The Ford River Rouge Complex may be the world's most famous auto plant. In 1915 Henry Ford bought 2000 acres along the Rouge River west of Detroit, intending to use the site only to make coke, smelt iron, and build ...

The Henry Ford Museum

The Edison Institute illustrates Henry Ford's personal commitment to preserving the record of America's technological and cultural progess. The success of the Model T allowed Ford to pursue a number of avocations. Particularly interested in the nation's past, by 1920 ...

Fair Lane (Henry Ford Estate)

Fair Lane records the private life of automaker Henry Ford, perhaps Detroit's most famous citizen. When Ford and his wife Clara decided to move out of the city to escape the constant attention the runaway success of the Model T ...

Palmer Woods Historic District

The Palmer Woods Historic District is a carefully designed subdivision containing many of the finest examples of residential design in Detroit including those of Frank Lloyd Wright, Minoru Yamasaki, and Maginnis & Walsh. Coinciding with the development of the automobile ...

Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District

The Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District is Detroit's most outstanding community of multi-family housing units. Adjacent to the wooded area of Palmer Park, the Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District incorporates a suburban concept of living in an urban ...

Highland Park Ford Plant

Probably no factory changed life in 20th century America as much as the Highland Park Ford Plant. It was here, that Henry Ford and his engineers developed many of the crucial principles of modern mass production. The most notable of ...