Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/NRIS information issues/Indiana

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Property names

• Daugherty-Monroe Archaeolgical Site (12SU13): correct "Archaeolgical" to "Archaeological". Nyttend (talk) 15:15, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oldenburh Historic District in Oldenburg, Indiana: correct "Oldenburh" to "Oldenburg". Nyttend (talk) 01:56, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
• I and M Electric Co. Buidling--Transformer House and Garage in South Bend: correct "Buidling" to "Building". Nyttend (talk) 14:25, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
• Joseph J. Bingham Indianapolis Public Schoo. #84: correct "Schoo." to "School". Nyttend (talk) 03:40, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
• Goshen Historic Distriict: correct "Distriict" to "District". Nyttend (talk) 23:02, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
• Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity House (Greencastle, Indiana). Typo about Epilson (typo) vs. Epsilon (correct) in name. NRIS states "Delta Kappa Epilson Fraternity House". Note there is another place named "Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity House" in Champaign, Illinois, the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois). --doncram (talk) 03:15, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Indianapolis apartment buildings

There are 35 or so badly named NRHP properties in Indianapolis. See Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Marion County, Indiana#Odd one word names for details and discussion. All should be given more descriptive names, perhaps adding "Apartment Building" or "Flats". doncram (talk) 16:47, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Town names

• Hawthorne Branch Library No. 2, listed May 18, 2000, located at 70 N. Mount St. in Indianapolis, Indiana, in Marion County, Indiana, is listed in NRIS as being in "Indainapolis". Typo: Indainapolis; Correction: Indianapolis; in town name field. doncram (talk) 18:03, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
• Home Laundry Company in Bloomington is listed as being in "Bloomngton". Nyttend (talk) 02:38, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Street addresses

• Martin County Courthouse (Indiana), listed June 17, 2005, located apparently at 220 Capital Ave. (38°40′11″N 86°47′51″W)

in Shoals, Indiana, is recorded in NRIS as being at "220 Captial Ave.". Probably a typo: "Captial"; Correction: "Capital" in street address field. doncram (talk) 10:10, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

• Joel Jessup Farm near Friendswood (Hendricks County) is listed as being on "Cty Rd. 800, near Cty Rd. 1050 E." Most Indiana counties, including Hendricks, have a road numbering system that allows multiple roads numbered 800, depending where they are located in the county (north, south, east [as seen in CR 1050E, also given in the location], or west), so "800" is insufficient. Google Maps shows this along 800S. Nyttend (talk) 00:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
• The John W. McClain House near Avon (Hendricks County) is listed as being at "1445 S. Cty rd. 525 E"; capitalise "rd." Nyttend (talk) 00:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
• Several road number errors in Rush County:
  • Forsythe Covered Bridge is listed along State Road 650; it's actually W. County Road 650S. Nyttend (talk) 14:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Archibald M. Kennedy House is listed along State Road 200; it's actually E. County Road 200N. Nyttend (talk) 14:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Moscow Covered Bridge is listed at the junction of State Roads 625 and 875; it's actually County Roads 625W and 875S. Nyttend (talk) 14:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Norris Ford Covered Bridge is listed along State Road 150; it's actually E. County Road 150N. Nyttend (talk) 14:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Offutt Covered Bridge is listed along State Road 550; it's actually N. County Road 550W. Nyttend (talk) 14:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Smith Covered Bridge is listed along State Road 300; it's actually E. County Road 300N. Nyttend (talk) 14:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• Roann Covered Bridge, 4th is listed along State Road 700W; it's actually N. County Road 700W. Nyttend (talk) 15:10, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• Stockdale Mill is listed along State Road 700E; it's actually N. County Road 800W (or Miami County Road 700E). Nyttend (talk) 15:10, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• Chesterton Commercial Historic District includes properties along "N. Calument Rd." and "N. Calumet Rd."; proper spelling is "Calumet". Nyttend (talk) 16:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• The Long Schoolhouse is listed as being "0.5 NW of jct. of Jordan Rd. and Hinson Rd."; add "miles" after "0.5". Nyttend (talk) 19:50, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• The Fort Wayne Street Bridge is listed as being "Indiana Ave. over Elkhard R"; correct "Elkhard" to "Elkhart". Nyttend (talk) 23:23, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• The Hills and Dales Historic District in West Lafayette is listed as being "Roughly bounded by Northwester Ave., Meridian St., Hillcrest Rd., and Grant St."; correct "Northwester" to "Northwestern". Nyttend (talk) 02:32, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
• The Old West End Historic District is listed as being "Roughly bounded by the White River and Washington St., Liberty St., Horward St. and Orchard Pl., and Kilgore Ave."; correct "Horward" to "Howard". Nyttend (talk) 02:55, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
• The Walnut Street Historic District is listed as being "Ruoughly Walnut St. from Washington to Victor Sts."; correct "Ruoughly" to "Roughly". Nyttend (talk) 03:06, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
• The Besancon St. Louis Historic District is listed at "15529-15535 E. Lincoln Hmy."; correct "Hmy." to "Hwy." Nyttend (talk) 13:04, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
• Indianapolis Park and Boulevard System is listed as being "Roughly bounded by 38th St., Emerson, Southern and Tibbs Aves., ext. to Fall Creek and Pleasan Run Rkwys to Shadeland"; correct spelling from "Pleasan" to "Pleasant" and "Rkwys" to "Pkwys". Nyttend (talk) 03:48, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• Irvington Historic District is listed as being "Roughly bounded by Ellenberger Pk., Pleasant Run Creek, Arligton Ave., B & 0 RR tracks, and Emerson Ave."; correct spelling from "Arligton" to "Arlington", and change "B & 0" to "B&O" or "B & O": it's currently a zero, rather than a capital "O". Nyttend (talk) 03:53, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• Lockerbie Square Historic District is listed simply as being in "Indianopolis"; correct spelling to "Indianapolis". Nyttend (talk) 03:56, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• Manchester Apartments is listed at "960-962 N. Pennslyvania St."; correct "Pennslyvania" to "Pennsylvania". Nyttend (talk) 04:32, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
• Col. Isaac C. Elston House in Crawfordsville is listed at 400 E. Wabash Avenue, but Google's Street View shows it at approximately 400 E. Pike Street (one block north of Wabash), and this page from Wabash College (the house's owner) speaks of the house fronting on Pike. Nyttend (talk) 23:40, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
• Indian Village Historic District in Fort Wayne is listed as being "Roughly bounded by Nuttman Ave. on the north, Bluffton Rd. on east, Eagle Rd. on south, Norfold Southern ROW on west" — map shows the western boundary to be an error for "Norfolk Southern". Nyttend (talk) 04:51, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Demolished but still listed

• Bell Ford Post Patented Diagonal "Combination Bridge": collapsed a few years ago; see its article for details. Nyttend (talk) 14:34, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
• Moscow Covered Bridge: destroyed by 2008 tornado; see here for proof. Nyttend (talk) 14:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• Bridgeton Covered Bridge: arsoned on 28 April 2005; see here for proof. Nyttend (talk) 03:14, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

• In something of a special case, The Harriett (refnum 83000057), located in Indianapolis, Indiana, was delisted, but not removed from the NRIS (apparently Engine House No. 3 (Kalamazoo, Michigan) (refnum 83000857), located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. was erroneously stricken in its place.) Andrew Jameson (talk) 16:59, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Architects

• Fort Wayne City Hall, 308 E. Berry St. Fort Wayne, IN has architects given as "Wing & Mamurim"; it is Wing & Mahurin instead. A number of NRIS entries have Wing & Mahurin properly, this is the one bad spelling AFAIK. --doncram 19:48, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
• John H. Bass Mansion, 2701 Spring St. Fort Wayne, IN gives architect name as "Wing & Martin"; it is Wing & Mahurin instead. --doncram 20:01, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

• Lake County Courthouse (Indiana) is listed as having architect or builder = "Multiple". According to the NRHP document for it "J.P. Cochran" was architect for its original/central portion, and Beers & Beers was architect for addition. "Cochran" is how it is spelled in the NRHP document for it, where he is just mentioned once as "J.P. Cochran of Chicago, Illinois". That is pretty clearly a typo in the NRHP document for "Cochrane"; the architect is evidently John P. Cochrane of Chicago, Illinois, born in 1935 or 1933, who also designed one or more other courthouses. --Doncram (talk) 16:36, 28 September 2019 (UTC)