Vintage Irvington

      As workers for the new Blue Line (a bus route) work on infrastructure along Washington Street in 2026, they are likely finding remnant...

In part five of five in our series on Irvington streets, three military generals hang out with at least one poet and one lexicographer along...

Residents in southeastern Irvington lived near farms and meadows in the 1940s. The Schweiters family, who dwelled at 6076 Dewey Avenue, coul...

For fifty five years, Irvington firemen operated out of Station Number 25 located at 5432 East Washington Street. The building had been desi...

One of the chief reasons for Irvington's annexation to the city of Indianapolis in 1902 was to obtain police and fire protection. Two di...

Most historians who write of historic Irvington generally speak of the serene calmness and of the lack of crime in the area.  While that ima...

The Avant, Leak, and Higgenbotham families lived along South Catherwood and Sheridan Avenues for years.  In this undated mid-twentieth centu...

This modest stuccoed church has been along Good Avenue since 1910.  Begun in 1887, congregants for the First Baptist Church used to meet in ...