Indiana Landmarks' 10 Most Endangered 2023

Every day, all year long, Indiana Landmarks works to revitalize historic structures that give our communities visible connections to their past and lend irreplaceable visual character to the streetscape. Once a year, we announce the 10 Most Endangered, a list of historic places on the brink of extinction and too important to lose.
The list includes an architect-designed industrial building; a threatened Victorian neighborhood; historic fraternal lodges; a significant Queen Anne home; a former movie palace; an Art Deco skyscraper; a commercial block that embodies Indiana’s limestone legacy; a manufacturing mogul’s neglected mansion; a long vacant county home; and a church designed by a trailblazing Black architect.These places shape lives, and when they’re gone, they leave a void that can’t be filled.
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When trying to raise money to save these landmarks, you have to be VERY CAREFUL who you trust to get involved. Case in point: Fairmount High School (where James Dean went to school). Lots of money was raised to save the building while it sat there rotting with almost no work being performed other than shoring up a wall and putting a fence around it. They even had an expensive charity dinner where the Hollywood elite paid crazy prices to attend to save the building. It was completely demolished a few years back, with no one really knowing where all that money went. As far as I know, all those stars who donated money with the expectation of saving James Dean's high school were NEVER reimbursed. They did (sort of) save the auditorium stage and installed it under a pavilion at the park, but you can't really say that a few salvaged hardwood boards is the same as "James Dean performed here," when he actually performed two blocks away, three stories up, in a complete auditorium. The "rebuilt" stage at the park doesn't come close to accounting for the money that was raised to save the now-demolished high school. And the sad thing is, they STILL make money off of it by selling bricks from the demolition. So yeah, be careful who you trust raising money to save old landmarks.