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-Athenaeum

National Historical Landmark- Athenaeum

Completed in 1847, this is one of the first Italian-style palazzo designs in America.

Architect John Notman (1810-1865) designed this structure; his design was the winner in a competition in which Strickland, Haviland, and Walter all took ...

National Historic Landmark-St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

National Historical Landmarks- St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

The Athenanaeum's construction (1868-1873), its collection of American landscape paintings and books, its original role as a public library and free art gallery, and the industrial origins of the fortune that provided it, all contribute ...

The Athenaeum

(St. Xavier College)

On this property in 1831

Bishop Edward Fenwick established a college

known as the Anthenaeum and placed it

under the patronage of St. Francis Xavier.

In 1840 his seccessor,

Bishop John Baptist Purcell,

gave the College to ...