Articles in: Historic Preservation

Nashville’s new National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) is “Out of Sight” — at least James Brown seems to think so...

Commercial radio was the bee’s knees across the world in the 1920s. Roughly 60 percent of families in the U.S. owned radios by the mid-1930s....

Originally started as Negro History Week by historian Carter G. Woodson in the 1920s, Black History Month has been nationally recognized by the U.S....

It’s been more than 200 years since Abraham Lincoln spent his youth in the rolling hills of southern Indiana. After all that time, we are still...

January and February have historically been bad months for weather in Tri-State and no, we’re not just talking about ice storms. For this week...

When it comes to lists, we know our readers can’t get enough of them — from Evansville Living’s annual “Best of the City...

The date was Feb. 6, 1992. Guests at the Drury Inn (now a Comfort Inn and Suites) at 3901 U.S. 41 N. were preparing for a full day in the city. But...

The month of February marks Black History Month, a nationwide commemoration of the notable contributions Black people have made in shaping the...

In the January/February issue of Evansville Living, we toured the USS LST-325 at 610 N.W. Riverside Drive to give you the inside scoop on what lies...

Seventy-three seconds. In that short amount of time after the Challenger space shuttle lifted from the ground at Cape Canaveral, Florida on the...

The World Wars have a special connection to Evansville. Thousands of ammunitions, LSTs, and P-47 Thunderbolt planes were manufactured in the city...

Churches have long been a premier attraction of any city, with their remarkable architecture inside and out captivating the gaze of their...

Growing up in Evansville has such great memories for me. I was born here and lived here most of my life. Thinking of highlights of my childhood...

For 30 years, the home at 805 E. Chandler Ave. sat vacant along historic Bayard Park. Nature reclaimed the yard, a large catalpa tree grew inside the...

With each passing year, we mourn and celebrate the lives lost of members of the community who made a difference in their places of work, to civic...

Deaconess President Dr. James Porter addressed media and hospital personnel on Dec. 16, 2020, as a small white cart carrying the newly created...

It was a time of undeniable change. The allies of the U.S. in Europe were at war with the Axis powers. The country continued to reel from a...

Yesterday, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman and...

Although Martin Luther King Jr. Day was yesterday, you can still celebrate the civil rights icon with a week of virtual learning events through the...

While the world said Happy New Year on Jan. 1, 2021, we also are saying happy birthday to the state of Indiana. It was 205 years ago when a seemingly...