Anderson's Grand Opera house, east of the Grand Hotel, was dedicated in 1895. The Grand became the Granada Theater, hosting vaudeville acts, during the Depression and finally the Starland movie theater. The building was razed in the early 1950s.
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Local businessman John Brunt donate $125,000 toward building a YMCA in Anderson in 1915. This facility has been in continuous use ever since. An annex was added in 1972.
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Stores in the 1200 block of Meridian Street, Anderson, Ind. Bob Brown's Electric Corner (1239) and the Diana Shop (1235) are visible. The building occupied by Brown's had previously been a Haag's Drugstore. In the 1980's, it was an antique...
Arrow Heights Church of God was built in 1929. In the 1980's, the original congregation merged with another church to form the West Anderson Church of God and this building was sold. It is now the Arrow Heights Community Church of God.
Anderson's downtown, pictured in the middle of the Depression, is still abuzz with activity. Cars line Meridian Street, seen from 12th Street looking northeast. The Paramount Theater, opened 8/20/1929, is prominently featured. The movie marquee...
The 2nd Methodist Church was formally organized by African Americans in 1873. It originally met at the 1st Methodist Church and then at a schoolhouse on Delaware Street. It moved into this building at 1012 W. 14th Street, which had previously been...
This building, completed in January 1878 at a cost of $7200, housed the inmates of the Madison County infirmary (or poor house.) The third of Madison County's three poorhouses, it was built on ground purchase from the Berryman Shafer family. A...
The Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Anderson, located at 9th and Fletcher, handled freight and passengers into the 1960's. After it was abandoned as a railroad station, it became a discotheque in the 1970's. It was damaged by Fire in April 1975...
Looking northwest from Meridian and 11th Streets, Anderson Drug Company is clearly in view. An interurban moves down Meridian Street on the edge of the picture. The Anderson Drug Company building was torn down in 1999. At that time it was the...
Anderson's Meridian Street, seen looking north from 12th Street. The movie marquee opposite the Union Building belongs to the Stardust (later the Times) Theater. The interurban tracks are clearly visible down Meridian.
In 1893, after his wife's death, John Hickey donated his home and its surrounding land to the Sisters of the Holy Cross, in gratitude for the care given his wife. In 1894, after the house was remodeled, it took its first patients. This three...
The original Washington Elementary School was built in 1896 and destroyed by fire in 1930. This 1932 building, located at Columbus Avenue and 23rd Street, was used by the Anderson School System until the early 1980's. It is now Liberty Christian...
The Anderson High School Manual Arts and Domestic Sciences Building was built in 1910 at a cost of $150,000. It stood on Lincoln Street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets. Picture is taken looking southwest from 13th and Lincoln. It was...
The original Anderson High School, constructed in 1898, was also called the Horace Mann Building. It was located at Twelfth and School Streets. It become Central Junior High School in 1917 and was demolished in 1973.
Anderson's Methodist Church, now known as First United Methodist Church, was organized in 1827. This building, located in the 1200 block of Jackson Street, was completed in 1901 and destroyed by fire December 23, 1960.
