Crown Garden

ID: 1824 ~ Source: Courtesy of the IUPUI University Library Special Collections and Archives ~ Creator: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps ~ Date: 1898

This file appears in: Indiana Avenue

This 1898 Sanborn map shows the design of the Crown Garden Theatre and how patrons had to enter through the Indy Avenue foyer rather than directly into the auditorium.

This file appears in: Indiana Avenue

Indiana Avenue

By Braden Catt, Carey Nigh, Jonnie Fox, Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology

One of the four original diagonal streets of the 1821 plan for Indianapolis, Indiana Avenue tells an important part of the story of African American life in Indianapolis, much of which was centered here on the near northwest side of the downtown…