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Indiana National Historic Landmarks

Athenaeum (Das Deutsche Haus) (Indianapolis) - 5/29/2024
This is one of the most ornate and best-preserved buildings affiliated with the German American community of Indianapolis; once used as a German American Turnverein and clubhouse, it currently houses many groups, organizations, and businesses

Benjamin Harrison Home (Indianapolis) - 6/2/2017
The 1870s home of the 23rd President; it was from the front porch of the house that Harrison instituted his famous 1888 Front Porch Campaign

Broad Ripple Park Carousel (Indianapolis) - 6/2/2017
Indianapolis Installed in 1917 with Dentzel animals at an amusement park near the White River, it is now in The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

Butler Fieldhouse (Indianapolis) - 6/2/2017
When built in 1928, it was the largest basketball arena in the U.S., and among the earliest of the major college fieldhouses, which transformed college basketball in the late 1920s and 1930s

Charles Shrewsbury House (Madison) - 4/24/2021
This is the 1848 Greek Revival home of the salt-barge riverboat captain, flour manufacturer, pork merchant and mayor of Madison

Clement Studebaker House (South Bend) - 5/28/2024
The carriagemaker and founder of H & C Studebaker Company lived here from 1889-1901; the company was the world's largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles and later converted into an automobile manufacturer

Eugene V. Debs Home (Terre Haute) - 6/3/2017
The union leader and his wife, Kate, built the two-story frame house in 1890; visitors included friends James Whitcomb Riley and Carl Sandburg

First Baptist Church (Columbus) - 5/31/2024
Completed in 1965, the church is an example of modern architecture; designed by Harry Weese, it was one of the first church designs to integrate Modern movement architecture and a non-traditional church plan

First Christian Church (Columbus) - 5/31/2024
Designed by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen in 1942, the First Christian Church was one of the first modern-style churches in America, with a glass-fronted main hall, and a tower and bridge section

Fort Ouiatenon (West Lafayette) - 5/29/2024
The first fortified European settlement in what is now Indiana; it was a palisade stockade with log blockhouse used as a French trading post on the Wabash River

General Lew Wallace Study (Crawfordsville) - 5/29/2024
The Civil War general, governor of the New Mexico Territory, and minister to the Ottoman Empire, and author of Ben-Hur used this building as his study from 1895 until his death in 1905

Indiana World War Memorial Historic District (Indianapolis) - 6/2/2017
Originally built to honor the veterans of World War I, the five-city-block plaza was conceived in 1919 as a location for the national headquarters of the American Legion and a memorial to the nation's veterans

Indianapolis Motor Speedway - 7/21/1991
Buit in 1909, the Speedway is a two-and-a-half-mile, nearly rectangular oval and home of the Indianapolis 500

Irwin Union Bank and Trust (Columbus) - 5/31/2024
Designed by Eero Saarinen in 1954, the building is meant to be welcoming, and influenced subsequent bank designs, being the first open bank with a Miesian glass pavilion

James Whitcomb Riley House (Indianapolis) - 6/2/2017
The noted poet had a bedroom on the second floor in this building for 23 years starting in 1893

Joseph Bailly Homestead (Porter) - 6/4/2023
The 1834 home of Joseph Aubert de Gaspé Bailly de Messein, one of the first permanent white settlers in NW Indiana and a surviving element of the significant fur trade in the region

Lanier Mansion (Madison) - 4/24/2021
Completed and occupied in 1844, it was the home one of Madison's pioneers, a lawyer and banker, becoming the president of the Madison Branch of the State Bank of Indiana and a major investor in Indiana's first railroad

Levi Coffin House (Fountain City) - 6/2/2017
The home became known as the "Grand Central Station" of the Underground Railroad because it was where three of the escape routes converged and the number of slaves who passed through it

Lincoln Boyhood Home (Lincoln City) - 8/4/1994
Also a National Memorial, this is the farm site where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1816 to 1830

Mabel McDowell Elementary School (Columbus) - 5/31/2024
Architect John Carl Warnecke designed this contextual work in the modern style, containing five separate one-story buildings linked by landscaped courtyards and covered walkways

Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (Indianapolis) - 6/2/2017
A cosmetics manufacturer incorporated in 1910, best known for its African-American cosmetics and hair care products, and considered the most widely known and financially successful African-American owned business of the early 20th century

Madison Historic District (Madison) - 4/24/2021
Recognized for its unique Midwestern beauty and architecture scheme, many of the prominent buildings were built by Madison-native-architect Francis Costigan, who favored the Greek Revival style

Miller House (Columbus) - 5/31/2024
Associated with Cummins founder J. Irwin Miller, the Miller House is a work of Eero Saarinen representing International style, and is integrated with the modern landscape of Dan Kiley

North Christian Church (Columbus) - 5/31/2024
Completed in 1964, the hexagonal shape church was designed by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen; it has an elevated hexagonal sanctuary in the center and pews surrounding the altar, with a 192-foot spire and cross

Oldfields (Indianapolis) - 6/2/2017
This is an example of the American country house movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, built in 1909 by architect Lewis Ketcham Davis for Hugh McKennan Landon, who sold it to Josiah K. Lilly Jr. in 1932

The Republic (Columbus) - 5/31/2024
A modernist building that was originally home to the local newspaper The Republic; completed in 1971, it is an acknowledged masterpiece of Modern architect Myron Goldsmith

Samara (West Lafayette) - 5/29/2024
Completed in 1956, Samara is an outstanding and mature example of a Usonian house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright during his late period (1941-59)

Spencer Park Dentzel Carousel (Logansport) - 5/29/2024
Built by the Dentzel Carousel Company, probably by 1900, it is one of the company's oldest surviving menagerie-style carousels, with animals likely hand-carved by George Dentzel

Tippecanoe Battlefield (Battle Ground) - 5/29/2024
In the Battle of Tippecanoe on November 7, 1811, Indiana Territory Governor William Henry Harrison and his force of 1,000 men defeated the Shawnee and their leader Tenskwatawa

West Baden Springs Hotel (West Baden Springs) - 5/31/2024
The hotel, located near many mineral springs and where roaming bear and herds of deer and buffalo once visited a salt lick, was built in 1902, and its 200-foot glass dome was once the largest dome in the world