Polk's Indianapolis (Marion County, Ind.) city directory, 1927, Part 1

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POLK'S INDIANAPOLIS CITY DIRECTORY 6

1927

CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BUSINESS FIRMS, CORPORATIONS, FOLLOWED BY THEIR OFFICERS, COPARTNERSHIPS GIVING NAMES OF PARTNERS, AND PRIVATE CITIZENS WITH THEIR OCCUPATION, BUSI- NESS CONNECTIONS AND HOME ADDRESS, A DIRECTORY OF ALL CHURCHES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, BENEVOLENT LITERARY, RELIGIOUS AND OTHER SOCIETIES, BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES, A COMPENDIUM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, OFFICERS OF THE STATE, COUNTY AND CITY GOVERNMENT, A STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE AND DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS

"A BUYERS' GUIDE"

AND A COMPLETE Classified Business Directory

"The

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$18:00

BUYER AND SELLER"

VOLUME LXXIII

R. L. POLK & CO., Publishers 225 N. New Jersey Street INDIANAPOLIS

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INTRODUCTION

The 1927 edition of the Indianapolis City Directory is herewith pre- sented to patrons. The publishers feel assured that the work affords a complete and comprehensive epitome of the vast and diversified interests and activities of the city-civic, social, commercial and industrial.

In the present volume all of the essential features contained in previous issues have been retained and amplified and improvements added as suggested by experience, in order to add to the value and use- fulness of the Directory.

The publishers enjoy the prestige and advantage of a complete or- ganization and thorough system essential in the production of Direc- tories, and the additional advantage of having the courteous co-operation of citizens in furnishing information. These factors, added to the liberal support of patrons as shown by the advertisements displayed upon the printed page, were vital to the success of the publication.

It is now seventy-three years since the first Indianapolis Directory was issued, and the present volume is the fiftieth annual edition pub- lished by R. L. Polk & Co., completing a half century of continuous service to the Indianapolis public.

The statistics presented following this introduction are eloquent as visualizing the greatness of Indianapolis. Touching as they do every phase of the city's commercial, industrial, and social life, they are both instructive to residents as well as to the thousands who consult the Directory in the Directory Libraries maintained in all the principal cities, where copies of this Directory are placed by the publishers.

The Directory contains a valuable fund of information concerning State, County and City Executives, Banks, Asylums, Hospitals and Homes, Building, Loan and Savings Associations, Cemteries, Charity Organizations, Churches, Clubs, College Societies, Courts, Federal Offi- cers, Foreign Consular Corps, Insurance Companies, Labor Organiza- tions, Libraries, Newspapers and Periodicals, Medical and Dental Col- leges, Miscellaneous Organizations, Musical Societies, Post Office Data, Public Buildings and Halls, Parks, Public and Private Schools, Railways, Secret Societies, etc.

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The Directory has several distinct departments, which are arranged in the order following:

THE MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, pages 17 to 100, contains a fund of information concerning the City, County and State Govern- ments, cemeteries, churches, courts, clubs, foreign consuls, Federal offi- cers, hospitals, labor organizations, libraries, post office, public halls and buildings, parks, railroads, schools, societies, etc.

THE BUYERS' GUIDE occupies pages 101 to 328. This section of the Directory, printed on tinted paper, includes numerous advertise- ments of the leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Indianapolis. They have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under classified headings and otherwise in various parts of

INTRODUCTION

the Directory. A casual perusal of these advertisements will picture many interesting phases of the city's activities. They are not display advertisements, primarily, however, but rather are reference advertising at its best. In a bustling, manufacturing city like Indianapolis the need for this kind of information readily at hand is very great, and the gen- eral appreciation of this need is evidenced by the liberal patronage the City Directory enjoys in many and varied lines of trade.

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of citizens, business con- cerns and corporations is embraced in pages 329 to 1472.

THE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE AND DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, pages 1473 to 1915. In this invaluable section of the Directory the names of the streets and avenues of the city are arranged in alphabetical order, the residence and business houses are arranged numerically under the name of each street and avenue, the names of the occupant, householder or business concerns being placed opposite each number.

THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 1917 to 2120. This department shows the various manufacturing, mer- cantile and professional occupations compiled in alphabetical order by headings appropriate to the class of industry pursued. This feature con- stitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community.

THE LEGAL BLUE BOOK OF INDIANAPOLIS. Opposite the clas- sification of Lawyers in the foregoing section is placed a Legal Blue Book containing the professional cards of members of the Indianapolis Bar. This feature is printed on tinted paper.

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Monument Circle

Courtesy Indianapolis Engraving Co.

ladianapolis Chamber of Commerce North Meridian St., opp. University Park

4372-6

INDIANAPOLIS

'AT THE CENTER OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA." SOME OF THE THINGS THAT SERVE TO VISUALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS MODERN AND PROGRESSIVE CITY IN

ITS COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL AND .

INDUSTRIAL ASPECTS; FURNISHED BY THE

INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Indianapolis, based on estimates of the U. S. Post Office, Bell Telephone Co., Engineers, City Directory and several other surveys had, on March 1st, nearly 400,000 population, showing an increase of more than 80,000 people since 1920.

In population, transportation facilities, and volume of business, Indianapolis is the largest inland city in the world not on navigable water.

Indianapolis is 55 miles northeast of the center of population of the United States. Indianapolis is the commercial, industrial, as well as the political and governmental capital of Indiana. Directly in the center and having a name suggestive of its state, Indianapolis is more truly a capital than any other city in America.

Indianapolis has a transient population of more than 20,000 people daily

The assessed valuation of Indianapolis is in excess of $651,373,000.

Indianapolis will have a population of 500,000 by 1935.

Indianapolis is known as a home owning city.

Indianapolis is known as the economic center of the United States for shipping and receiving goods.

Indianapolis' climatic conditions are ideal for both industry and agriculture.

Low humidity prevails in both summer and winter.

Practically 16 hours of daylight may be utilized during the season suitable for outside work.

Indianapolis has an area of 51 square miles.

Indianapolis has 600 miles of permanently improved streets.

Indianapolis has 175 miles of city electric car lines.

Indianapolis has over 39 miles of boulevards.

Indianapolis has 502 miles of sewers and 550 miles of water mains.

Indianapolis' water supply is thoroughly filtered and treated with chlorine to insure purity. Thousands of analyses are made annually.

Indianapolis has more homes per thousand people than any other city in the United States over 200,000.

More than 12,000 new homes have been built in the last four years.

There is nothing to hinder the city's growth in any direction, making it unnecessary to live in congested tenement houses because of restricted building conditions.

The Public Library, erected at a cost of $510,000, is one of the most beautiful in the country. It contains over 407,000 volumes and maintains 15 branches throughout the city.

Indianapolis has a splendid Y. M. C. A. erected by the public at a cost of $250,000- also a fine Y. W. C. A. and a colored Y. M. C. A.

The John Herron Art Institute is one of the noted art museums of the United States.

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, located in the heart of the city, is recognized as one of the finest pieces of collossal sculpture in the United States and is second in height only to the Washington Monument.

Fort Benjamin Harrison, located just outside of the city, is one of the largest army posts in the country.

Indianapolis is represented in the American Association of Baseball, winning the pennant in 1908 and 1917.

Indianapolis has one of the largest city market houses in the United States, supply- ing fresh products from the country.

Indianapolis has the greatest motor speedway in the world. Every year the 500-mile race is held here between drivers from all over the world. This is the world's premier sporting event and attracts thousands of people from all lands.

The United States Post Office and Federal Building is valued at $5,301,937.

Indianapolis Post Office receipts for 1926 were $4,787,854.

Indianapolis was the home of the late Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, the late Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks, the late James Whitcomb Riley, the late Benjamin Harrison, of Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson.

INDIANAPOLIS

Indianapolis has 27 parks' well distributed throughout the city and connected by a beautiful boulevard system.

Indianapolis has ten golf courses and 36 public tennis courts.

Indianapolis is the National Headquarters of the American Legion and the Legion Weekly.

A war Memorial Plaza, five blocks in length, having at its head the beautiful Public Library, and at its foot the Post Office and Federal Building, is being built hy the city, county and state.

The plaza will practically adjoin the down town district and in the middle block will be built a magnificent Memorial Building to house The American Legion and other patriotic societies.

Indianapolis is the seat of the following State Institutions: Indiana State Fair, Indiana Institute for the Blind, Indiana School for the Deaf, Schools of Medicine and Dentistry of Indiana University, Indiana University Extension Center, Indiana Girls' School, Indiana Women's Prison and Central Hospital for the Insane.

Indianapolis Fire Department is competelly motorized and of highest efficiency.

Indianapolis has 19 hospitals and dispensaries, ranking amoung the finest in the country.

Downtown Indianapolis, according to experts, is the best planned of all cities. There is not a street less than 90 feet wide and the one having the heaviest traffic is 120 feet in width.

Indianapolis has 42 banks and trust companies and branches with resources of more than $282,184,327.

Indianapolis is known as a "panic proof" city.

Indianapolis has 63 building and loan associations with resources of more than $84,338,000.

The Railroadmen's Building and Loan of Indianapolis is the largest in the world. Indianapolis has about 40 large modern, centrally located office buildings. Office rental ranges from $1.00 to $3.00 per square foot per year.

Indianapolis has about 4,500 retail stores and 300 jobbers.

Indianapolis has 16 railroads and 13 interurban lines making direct connections with all parts of the state and nation.

Indianapolis has the best location in the United States for quick economic parcel post delivery. The first three of four zones in which the lowest rates prevail cover a more thickly populated business territory than for any other city.

There are 75 mail trains in and 80 mail trains out of Indianapolis every 24 hours. Mail deposited at the Post Office before noon will reach any destination within 500 miles in time for the next morning delivery.

A large number of motor bus lines radiate from Indianapolis, covering practically all parts of the state.

These are from four to six deliveries and 10 to 15 collections in the business district every day, and from 2 to 3 deliveries and 2 to 6 collections in the residence sec- tion.

Indianapolis is the largest interurban center in the world.

Indianapolis has the largest interurban passenger station and the largest inter- urban freight depot in the world.

Indianapolis entertains from 300 to 500 conventions annually.

Indianapolis is the commercial center of an agricultural territory of great wealth. Crops within 100 miles of Indianapolis are valued at more than $500,000,000.

More than 20,000,000 bushels of corn are handled annually by our Board of Trade. Indianapolis Stock Yards receipts for 1926 comprised 1,771,329 hogs, 540,899 cattle and 220,809 sheep.

Indianapolis, on account of its central location and the network of good roads lead- ing in, is the largest "drive in" hog market in the world.

Indianapolis is the only city whose merchants were twice awarded the "Truth Trophy" by the Associated Advertising Clubs of America. The Better Business Bureau of Indianapolis is assigned to the task of keeping Indianapolis advertising up to this high standard and is in a large way responsible for the result.

Illiteracy in Indianapolis has been reduced 2.1 per cent.

From kindergarten to college, Indianapolis offers educational advantages unsur- passed in any city.

Indianapolis has 83 public schools, 5 high schools, and 47 free kindergartens.

Butler University of Indianapolis recently received an endowment and will move to a larger and better location.

Many other schools, giving training in business, medicine, law, art, pharmacy, veterinary practice, industry, missionary work and social service, are located here.

The Typothetae School of Printing, in connection with the Arsenal Technical High School under the auspices of the United Typothetae of America offers the best avail- able course in the printing industry.

INDIANAPOLIS

Pupils in the schools are cared for by a special group of doctors and nurses who give the best advice and treatment.

Indianapolis has 157 white protestant churches, 55 colored protestant churches and 24 catholic churches.

Indianapolis aids charity by the Community Chest Method. The leading business men of the city collect and distribute the funds of the various organizations once a year, eliminating the individual soliciting of each organization.

Indianapolis has 9 social clubs which own their own buildings. The new home of the Indianapolis Athletic Club cost over $2,000,000, and combines the finest features of all the best athletic clubs of the country. The Columbia Club also recently con- structed a new home at a new home at a cost of $1,500,000.

Parks, playgrounds, tennis court, baseball diamonds and golf courses furnish everyone of all ages ample opportunity for out-door recreation.

Indianapolis has nine theatres which bring the best plays, vaudeville and musical attraction. Sixty-two cinema houses show the best moving pictures produced.

Indianapolis business men are well organized. The Board of Trade, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Merchants Association, Associated Employers, Business Men's Association, Central Indiana Purchasing Agents Association, Credit Men's Association, Employment Managers' Association, Retail Coal Dealers Association and Better Business Bureau comprise the leading ones.

Products valued at more than $400,000,000 were manufactured in Indianapolis during 1926.

There are in excess of 1,000 manufacturing plants in Indianapolis producing ap- proximately 1,250 articles.

Indianapolis has the largest exclusive manufacturer of silk hose in the country. Meat packing and slaughtering concerns turn out product valued at $66,000,000. Indianapolis ha's the largest independent hog killing plant in the United States. Indianapolis has the largest shock absorber factory in the world.

Indianapolis has one of the largest pop-corn machine manufacturers in the world. Indianapolis has the largest manufacturer of metal post office equipment in the world.

Indianapolis has the largest exclusive cotton glove factory in the United States.

Indianapolis has the largest manufacturer of poultry remedies in the world.

Indianapolis is the home of one of the largest food products manufacturers in the world. The kitchens of this plant are known the world over for their size, beauty and cleanliness.

Indianapolis has the largest manufacturer of commercial auto bodies in the world. One of the largest manufacturers of pharmaceutical products in the world is located in Indianapolis.

Indianapolis has one of the largest hog serum laboratories in the world.

Indianapolis has one of the largest plants manufacturing silent transmission chains. Indianapolis has one of the largest battery plants in the world.

One of the leading saw manufacturers of the world is located in Indianapolis, making saws of every size and description.

Indianapolis manufacturers located on the Belt R. R. have advantages no other city in the United States can offer to her industries. They ship goods and receive goods directly from or to their plants, over any railroad entering Indianapolis by routing through the Belt R. R. which does the switching for all lines at a uniform rate.

Indianapolis manufacturers have enormous trade in foreign countries.

Indianapolis has great diversity of industry. Surplus labor caused from depres- sion in certain lines is soon absorbed by the other lines not affected.

Indianapolis is fast becoming a center for the manufacture of wearing apparel of all kinds.

Indianapolis furniture companies furnish cabinets for many of the eastern talking machine companies.

Four Indianapolis-made cars have been victorious in the 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Speedway.

Some of the best racing motors in the world are designed and made in Indianapolis.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The one organization in a community which upholds the ideals of good citizenship, right living and active co-operation among individuals and organizations making up the city's life is the Chamber of Commerce. It surveys the community with a telescope to see the whole at once and at the same time with a microscope to search out the details. It encourages and co-ordinates individual efforts and takes its prominent place in all worth-while community activities. It spells its mission in life "Give," not "Get." The Chamber of Commerce is the guide, philosopher and friend of the home city and the community. With this background in mind any community must thoroughly realize that the efforts of community upbuilding tend toward evolution. It therefore becomes of the utmost importance to each of us to realize that the Chamber of Commerce is an organization through which public spirited citizens in a community may express them- selves collectively on questions of community welfare and through which they may make their collective desires effective. Cities do not happen-co-operation builds them. In business as in life, he gets the most out of it who gives the most to it. The dividends are based on the investment.

INDIANAPOLIS

POPULATION

As in previous years the Directory canvass was not confined to the actual city limits, but embraced all adjacent suburban territory, the residents of which are to all interests and purposes a part of the social, commercial and industrial life of Indian- apolis; these residents are dependent upon the city for their prosperity, and they enjoy the civic advantages offered by it, since most of these residents have their businss in- terests and activities therein and are intimately connected with it in every relation except governmental. In this issue of the Directory there are listed 159,207 individual names; a conservative estimate of the population is obtained by multiplying the num- ber of names by 21/2 to allow for the names of married women and children which have not been included in the enumeration. This gives Greater Indianapolis a population of 398,017, a gain of 12,900 over the population of 1926.

DIRECTORY LIBRARIES

A library of City and County Directories and State Gazetteers is maintained by us in our offices, 225 North New Jersey Street, for the free use of our patrons. As the latest Directories are issued they will be added to the library, thereby keeping it up to date from year to year. We extend a cordial invitation to each and every one of our subscribers to make frequent use of the library and to consult the Directories on file as often as desired, when information in regard to any individual, firm, corporation, or institution located in other cities is desired.

MUNICIPAL PUBLICITY-ADVERTISING INDIANAPOLIS

An important function of the Directory is to set forth the characteristics and ad- vantages of the city as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and as an educational center. The Directory acts as a mirror, reflecting all that is noteworthy in the city in the above respects. In order to spread this information re- garding the city broadcast over the country the publishers place copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries which are maintained in all the larger cities of the country, where they are readily available for reference use by the public. There they serve as perpetual advertisements of Indianapolis, for business men the country over realize that the City Directory represents the community as it really is.

R. L. POLK & CO., Publishers and Compilers.

GENERAL INDEX

Page 329

Abbreviations

insurance

Advertising Department

101

Interurban Lines

Alphabetical List of Names

330

Apartments

Legal Blue Book

2029

Libraries

Bands of Music

Banks .

Board of School Commissioners.

Building Associations

26 101

Museums

Buyers' Guide

Musical Societies

Cemeteries

Newspapers

Charities

Police Department

Classified Business Directory

1917

Clubs

College Societies

County Officers

23 33

Federal Officers

Fire Department

Special Advertising Department

101

Flats and Apartment Houses

State Schools 72

1473

General Directory

330

Street Railway Routes 71

Hospitals 24

Street Railways 71

Householders' Directory

1473

Township Officers 23

Incorporated Companies

Trust Companies

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

A-1 Letter Shop Inc

109

Advance Electrotype Co

190

Aetna Cabinet Co 268 Bock Equipment Co

Aetna Trust & Savings Co 149

Akers C R Co

157

Alexander Box Co

Allied Coal & Material Co

Allison W D Co right side lines 160 and 171

284

American Auditors Inc

106

Bradford E W

.. 280 and (Legal Blue Book)

American Insurance Underwriters

228

Brannum-Keene Lumber Co

embossed line, front cover and 243

Breed, Elliott & Harrison back cover, right top lines and 153

Brennan Wm A 292

Bretzman Charles F 282

Bridges & Graves Co 293

Broad Ripple Lumber Co

248

Brown Lyndsay M

(Legal Blue Book)

Brown L M Abstract Co left side lines and 104

Brunswick Shop The left side lines and 264

Buick Motor Co 127

Burdsal A Co 274

Burford Wm B 269

Burke-Cadillac Co 127

Burnet-Binford Lumber Co

back cover

and

244

Burroughs Adding Machine . Co 108 Buschmann August & Sons 285

Business Furniture Co 269

Business Men's Assurance Co 229

Butler University 185

C & D Co

181

Cable Hobart M Piano Co 265

Canning Joseph J & Co 285

Cannon Fermor S

114 Capital Paper Co 278

Capitol Auto Parts & Tire Co

122

Capitol City Fuel Co

162 and 171

Bassett Co The 285 Capitol Dairies Inc right side lines and 260

Baxter Co The 126 Capitol Loan Co 241

Becker Charles S & Co 155 Capitol Overland Co

128

Belt Auto Indemnity Assn. 228 Carlin Music Co

Bemis Bro Bag Co left top lines and 139 Berkshire Life Insurance Co 224

Bernd Peter & Son 127 Central Buick Co 128

Central Bureau of Credits 106

Central Business College front cover and 183

Central Public Warehouse Co 322

Blakley Granite Co

263

Central Rubber and Supply Co 128

180

Bookwalter-Ball-Greathouse Printing Co.

.289 and opp 420

158 Borcherding W C Co. 247 Bowen A W Co right bottom lines and 121

Boyd John A Motor C

127

Brackett-Monarch Co 324

American Mutual Insurance Co

228

Anderson-Davidson Lumber Co

Anding John H Co left bottom lines and 247

left side lines and 175

Armacost Automobile Co 126

Armstrong Wm H Co .. left side lines and 211

Artificial Ice & Cold Storage Co 215 Broad Ripple Auto Co

Ashjian Bros Rug Co right bottom lines and 301

Asperger & Gerhardt

Association of North American Directory Pub-

lishers

Atkins E C & Co

303

Automobile Underwriters Inc

228

Ayres L S & Co front stencil edge and 179

Bachman F M Co

247

Baldwin Piano Co The left side lines and 264

Balke & Krauss Co 247

Ballard Ice Cream Co 216

Ballmann J H & Sons

276

Bamberger & Feibleman

(Legal Blue Book)

Bank & Office Stationery Co right side lines and 268

Bankers Encyclopedia Co X

Bankers Trust Co

left side lines and 149

Banner Furniture Co right top lines and 204

Barker Edward & Son 292

Barnes Employment Service 192

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Polk's Indianapolis (Marion County, Ind.) city directory, 1927, Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1927 Publisher: R.L. Polk Number of Pages: 2130

Author:
Publication date: 1927
Publisher: R.L. Polk
Number of Pages: 2130