Public Library, Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1935

About this postcard

A corner view of the Indianapolis Public Library, a large Neoclassical building with a long colonnade of unfluted columns along its facade and a tall, mostly blank end wall facing the street, with steps, a lamp post and beds of red flowers in front. The central library of Indianapolis was built in 1917 on St. Clair Street with Carnegie funding, designed in the Classical Revival style by the local firm of Pierre & Wright's predecessors; it long served as the city's main library before being replaced by a new central library in the 1960s. The card shows the building in its early decades, rendered in the tinted, textured style typical of the linen era.