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Boardwalk Park, Whiting
For a few seasons Whiting tried something almost absurd in scale: an amusement park at Indianapolis Boulevard and Calumet Avenue marketed as the Atlantic...
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Whiting works as a place-based view into the library, connecting 20 published records that show how this locality changes across type, status, and theme within Indiana.
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20 published articles
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For a few seasons Whiting tried something almost absurd in scale: an amusement park at Indianapolis Boulevard and Calumet Avenue marketed as the Atlantic...
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Not every Whiting theater needed Hoosier scale to count. The Capitol shows the smaller end of downtown movie culture, where Saturday westerns, bargain admission,...
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Before the Hoosier or the Community House, Goebel's carried Whiting's entertainment life on John Street. The hall's mixed use shows how a young refinery...
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Whiting's new History Center turns local memory into a deliberate downtown institution. It places archives, exhibitions, and local memory in a building old enough...
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The library is one of Whiting's steadier civic institutions because its history joins grassroots organizing, Carnegie philanthropy, Rockefeller land, and continuing public use within...
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The grotto survives where the larger parish complex does not. It preserves a visible remnant of Slovak Catholic Whiting even after the church and...
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The St. Mary campus is unusually rich for a place this size. Its church, veterans hall, and later rectory tie eastern European settlement, industrial...
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Sacred Heart helps explain how Whiting's first Catholic parish evolved with the refinery city itself. The parish moved, rebuilt, and kept growing westward as...
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