Interurban Station and Bakery

Interurban Station / La Hacienda

Year Built: 1908

Architecture Style: Colonial Revival

Key Features:

• Wide Eaves with Brackets
• Multi-Paned Windows
• Metal Roof

Just in front of us, on this side of 56th street is the Mexican restaurant La Hacienda which used to be a train depot and stop on the Indianapolis interurban line, which would take troops stationed at Fort Ben back and forth between the city. When train service was replaced by bus service, the depot became the fort’s post office.

Bakery

Year Built: 1908

Architecture Style: Colonial Revival

Key Features:

• Masonry Crowns over Windows and Doors
• Symmetrical Design
• Multi-Paned Windows

We’ll pass the old bakery (635 Lawton Loop East Drive) on our right, which when built, had a capacity of 1,000 loaves of bread a day. Later, it was converted to the post library. We will pass in between the “new barracks” (8901 & 8902 Otis Avenue) which were built in 1939 to house soldiers training to be army bakers on the right, and soldiers training to serve in the army chaplain corps on the left. During World War II, these buildings also served as barracks for the Army Women’s Auxiliary Corps, or WACs.

This is the last stop on our tour!

If you have not already, please take the opportunity to visit Fort Harrison State Park. It is just a block north of the Inn at 6000 North Post Road.

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