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Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1907. "Knights of Pythias Building." A sort of Flatiron wannabe. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The "streetcar" is an interurban combine. An educated guess is that is a St Louis-built car of the Union Traction Company of Indiana.
I love how there is a lumber store on the 8th floor of this building. One wonders how they got lumber all the way up there.
Indianapolis had a few "flatiron wannabes" back in the day. Four streets radiated from downtown's circle at 45-degree angles from the city grid, creating wedgy corners that cried out for buildings like these. All of them were demolished long ago; the first blocks of several of the angled streets were closed and made into larger blocks for some of Indianapolis's modern skyscrapers.
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