Bedford Block

231-237 South Wabash Street

Built: 1901

Style: Romanesque Revival

The Bedford Block was built under the joint effort of William J. Wilson, former Wabash postmaster, and Warren Bigler, Indiana State Auditor and the first president of the State Association of Abstractors of Title. Early occupants of the building include a gentlemen's furnishings shop, a saloon, and the Wabash National Bank. In 1910, the first moving picture theater in Wabash took the place of the saloon.

The Bedford Block, with its rock-faced and dressed limestone block façade, is easily identified as Romanesque Revival in style. Quite notable are the large, round-arched windows and the checkerboard-patterned parapet with stone lions' heads on each corner.