Misplaced Pages

#51948

18-576: The museum is located in Indianapolis's White River State Park , which is also home to the neighboring Indiana State Museum and Military Park , among other attractions. The museum offers free parking to its visitors in the park's underground parking garage. The Gund Gallery has an appreciable collection of paintings and bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell . It also has paintings by: George Winter , Thomas Hill , Albert Bierstadt , Charles King , and Olaf Seltzer . In another room, there

36-584: A healthy lifestyle and encourage Hoosier athletes to participate in sports. A number of existing buildings on the site of the park were demolished. Among them was the Oscar McCulloch School Number 5, which was built at the corner of Washington and California streets in 1920. The park commission had earlier agreed to repurpose the building, but because it stood on the proposed site for the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art and

54-542: Is a large collection of paintings by New Mexico-associated painters, such as: Joseph Henry Sharp , William Victor Higgins , Ernest L. Blumenschein ("Penitentes"), John French Sloan , and Georgia O'Keeffe (“Taos Pueblo”). In June 2005, the museum opened an extensive expansion that doubled the public space of the museum by adding three new galleries, the Sky City Café, an education center, outdoor gardens, and event space. The new galleries include two galleries dedicated to

72-737: Is an urban park in downtown Indianapolis , Indiana . Situated along the eastern and western banks of its namesake White River , the park covers 267 acres (108 ha). The park is home to numerous attractions, including the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art , the Indiana State Museum , the Indianapolis Zoo , the NCAA Hall of Champions , Victory Field , Everwise Amphitheater, and White River Gardens . The park and accompanying Indianapolis Canal Walk comprise one of seven designated cultural districts . Initial plans for

90-402: The Indiana State Museum , the park commissioners voted on at 2:00 pm on August 14, 1985, to raze the school. The demolition began two hours later, and the demolition crew later said that they had been instructed to work through the night to remove as much of the school building by the next morning. The Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana obtained an injunction to stop the demolition, citing

108-709: The base and 64 feet (20 m) at the peak that would "establish the Crossroads of America". As such, the design would have been taller than the Arch, the Washington Monument , and the Statue of Liberty . The proposed $ 25 million included the rerouting of West Washington Street to the south so that the tower could be placed on the east bank of the White River where the street had crossed the river. The project never progressed as both

126-493: The façade to be placed on the exterior of the museum, it was ultimately decided to erect it inside the Grand Hall, where it serves as the entrance to the education center. On September 11, 1992, a plane carrying four prominent community leaders—park executive director Robert V. Welch , Frank McKinney , John Weliever, and Michael Carroll—collided with a private plane on its way to Columbus, Ohio . All four men were instrumental in

144-523: The museum among the ten most "architecturally significant" buildings completed in the city since World War II . The museum offers the prestigious Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship (formerly called the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art) biennially to recognize some of the most innovative and influential contemporary Native artists active today. Eiteljorg fellows include: White River State Park White River State Park

162-578: The museum's extensive contemporary art collection. The collection includes works by T. C. Cannon , Kay WalkingStick , Andy Warhol , and many more. The other gallery added in the expansion is the Gund Gallery of Western Art. This gallery is dedicated to the 57-piece collection of traditional Western art donated to the museum by the George Gund Family. In 2021, a six-person panel of American Institute of Architects (AIA) Indianapolis members identified

180-425: The park were conceived by civic leaders in the late 1970s to capitalize on the city's amateur sports economic development strategy. Bipartisan support from state legislators and seed money from corporate partners led to the organization of a quasi-governmental commission to oversee the park's planning and operations. Construction began in the 1980s with the acquisition and clearing of blighted industrial properties and

198-555: The park's development. A memorial honoring their memory was placed in the park near the Old Washington Street Bridge. In December 2020, officials announced that the park's footprint would expand by 10 acres (4.0 ha) as part of a $ 100 million public-private partnership between the State of Indiana, City of Indianapolis, and Elanco to redevelop the neighboring General Motors site to the south. The new parkland will hug

SECTION 10

#1732851810052

216-441: The presence of asbestos . Sidney Weedman, the commission's executive director, explained that the commissioners feared that groups wanting to preserve the school would tie the issue up in court for several years, preventing progress on the park. The commission was fined $ 2,000 for the improper asbestos removal and agreed to preserve the front façade with its terracotta design work for use in the new state museum. Although some wanted

234-553: The realignment of Washington Street for redevelopment. Restoration of this area began in the late 1980s when public attention fell on the Indiana Central Canal . The canal was originally engineered in the 1830s as a way to ship goods through the state of Indiana , but the project, as governed by the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act , went bankrupt and the Indianapolis section of the canal

252-609: The state solicited designs for a distinctive piece of skyline architecture in the tradition of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis or the Space Needle in Seattle . The Pelli tower was to be located in the new Indiana Landing area of Indianapolis (which later became White River State Park ). The Pelli design called for an obelisk 750 feet (230 m) tall, with a diameter of 130 feet (40 m) at

270-524: The tower's design. Since, several proposed attractions have been considered, including an Indiana African American History Museum, seasonal ice skating rink, tethered balloon ride, amusement park, and public beach. From 1983 until 1994, the park co-sponsored the White River Park State Games alongside the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. The games were intended to promote

288-538: The west riverbank and incorporate a portion of the former plant's preserved crane bay, designed by industrial architect Albert Kahn . White River State Park is owned by the State of Indiana under the auspices of the White River State Park Development Commission, a quasi-governmental board composed of ten commissioners. The commission is charged with overseeing park maintenance, marketing, operations, and future development. The commission

306-609: Was created in 1979 by the Indiana General Assembly to distinguish the park from those managed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources . Indiana Tower Indiana Tower was the proposed centerpiece of White River State Park in Indianapolis , Indiana , United States. Designed by César Pelli in 1980, the plan was ultimately scrapped. As part of the downtown revitalization campaign for Indianapolis,

324-424: Was the only section that was ever dug. Although the canal was never used for its intended purpose, recent restoration and redevelopment have allowed the area to function as a cultural center within the city. In 1980, architect César Pelli 's Indiana Tower was proposed as the park's focal point; however, the 750-foot (229 m) observation tower was never constructed due to funding concerns and public criticism of

#51948