Test Building
Appearance
Test Building | |
Test Building, January 2010 | |
Location | 54 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana |
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Coordinates | 39°46′6″N 86°9′32″W / 39.76833°N 86.15889°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1925 |
Architect | Bass, Knowlton, & Company |
NRHP reference No. | 83000138[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 16, 1983 |
Test Building, also known as the Circle Motor Inn, is a historic commercial building in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was built in 1925, and is a nine-story, reinforced concrete structure with 12-inch thick brick and clay tile curtain walls. It is faced with Indiana limestone and has a three-story brick penthouse and two-level basement. The mixed-use building housed the city's earliest large parking garages.[2]: 2–5
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1] It is in the Washington Street-Monument Circle Historic District.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-08-01. Note: This includes Mary Ellen Gadski and James S. Reed (February 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Test Building" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-01. and Accompanying photographs
External links
[edit]Media related to Test Building at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Indiana
- Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
- Commercial buildings completed in 1925
- Commercial buildings in Indianapolis
- National Register of Historic Places in Indianapolis
- Garages (parking) on the National Register of Historic Places
- Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
- Transportation buildings and structures in Marion County, Indiana
- 1925 establishments in Indiana
- Marion County, Indiana Registered Historic Place stubs
- Indianapolis stubs