William Grant Seamon, City Methodist’s Founder Since Gary’s founding in 1906, there has always been a Methodist church within the city. In 1916, Dr. William Seaman became its pastor. He had a...
William Grant Seamon, City Methodist’s Founder Since Gary’s founding in 1906, there has always been a Methodist church within the city. In 1916, Dr. William Seaman became its pastor. He had a...
Gary United States Post Office The former Gary United States Post Office located downtown was constructed in 1936 as part of the New Deal, a series of programs, public works projects, financial...
Protective Order of Elks Lodge Building The former H. Gordon and Sons Department Store is an abandoned four-story brick building in downtown Gary, Indiana. The building was initially constructed for...
Mahencia/Mahencha Apartments In 1927, the Mahencha Building and Realty Company was established with a capital of $40,000 by Charles Henry and William J. Maloney, and Patrick J. Kilroy. The four-story...
Emerson High School Bearing the name of transcendentalist writer, lecturer, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson High School was Gary’s first high school and the first public school in the...
Gary Screw and Bolt Company The Gary Screw and Bolt Company was founded in 1911 by a group of executives of the Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt Company. It opened in the summer of 1912 with its first 100...
Memorial Auditorium The Gary Memorial Auditorium is an abandoned civic center in Gary, Indiana, constructed to commemorate residents who were killed fighting in World War I. Commissioned by the Gary...
North Gleason Park North Gleason Park in Gary was first developed in 1920. Originally named Riverside Park, it was renamed after the U.S. Steel Superintendent and park board president William P...
Micheal Jackson’s Attendance at Garnett Elementary School Although small and modest, Garnett Elementary School is widely known as the elementary school Michael Jackson attended, although he was...
Horace Mann High School Following the success of Gary School Superintendent William Wirt’s Gary Plan at Emerson High School, Wirt drew up plans to establish four schools over the next two...
Lovell Amison, Founder of Lovell’s Barber College Lovell’s Barber College was started by Lovell Amison, who was born in 1912 to Pearlene and Willie Amison in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He came...
John Adolph Emil Emerson, Architect The Palace Theater in Gary, Indiana, is an abandoned theater designed by renowned architect John Emerson and built in 1925 by the Max and Sons construction firm...
The Great Steel Strike of 1919 The inception of the Gary-Alerding Settlement House dates back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when many workers, including those in the steel...
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