Vintage Irvington

One of the most exciting moments for a preservationist and historian living in this great neighborhood we call Irvington, is to see a wreck ...

In the mid-twentieth century, photographer Reuben L. Brullow, photographed the interior of the Irvington Presbyterian Church for the sixtiet...

John Howard Armington, a forty-two-year-old assistant meteorologist in Chicago, received the position of chief meteorologist for the state o...

Paula Schmidt, one of our local history detectives, began to wonder about the large Victorian home along South Butler Avenue.  Her...

Frank Olson, an Indiana University Law School graduate married Helen McCarty in 1927. The couple immediately started a family and would even...

Three separate streetcar lines came into Irvington.  The oldest line, a former mule-powered transport, followed the Brookville Road. The mos...

As more people purchased automobiles in the 1920s and 1930s, they enjoyed venturing out into the countryside and into nearby villages.  A po...