Vintage Irvington

          On June 15, 1925, Butler University seniors gathered outside under a grove of trees on Irvington's campus to receive their dip...

      Throughout 1937 and 1938, a photographer from the Bass Photo Company documented the construction of the new International Harvester fa...

  Butler Dorm, c1915 (photo courtesy of Kyle Kingen)           Throughout its tenure from 1875 until 1928, Butler University only hosted one...

      Little has changed over the decades of the home located at 246 South Emerson Avenue. Likely built around 1909, the first residents wer...

      Over the past several years, a few local historians have been researching Gertrude Mahorney, the first African-American in the state o...

          In the early twentieth century, local Irvington residents traveled on many brick streets including South Emerson Avenue. Additiona...

 In the early 1870s, officials at North Western Christian University had begun the process of scouting a new location. Founded in 1855 by me...

Benjamin and Martha Caldwell and their talented son, Howard, moved away from their home in Lewisville, Indiana to a brand new house at 30 No...

The Sigma Chi Rho Chapter has been a part of Butler University's three campuses since 1865. When the college moved to Irvington in 1875,...