Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1926 — Page 13

DEC. 10, 1926

VALUEOFLOTIN WASHINGTON ST. GROWSRAPIDLY Increases 3,458 Times Original Cost Per Front Foot, Title Shows. The lot on Washington St., next to the Washington Hotel, on which the Lombard Bldg, stands, originally was purchased for $2.55 a front foot, it was found when the realty history was compiled by the Union Title Company title insurance department. Interesting comparative figures are shown by calculating this origi nal cost against the assessed valuation of the same tract today, exclusive of improvements, which is listed for taxation at $563,920, or $B,Bll per front foot. This is an advance of 3,458 times the original cost. At the time of the first purchase of the lot there was no permanent growing influence visable and real estate promised to be a poor speculation. A perusal of the deed bearing the date of June 10, 1825, reveals the fact that Humphrey Griffith pur-

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chased the east half of the original lot with a frontage of 35 feet 6 inches from the Agent of State for sll3. The State government permanently was located in Indianapolis Jan, 10, 1825, the General Assembly meeting In the old courthouse, still unfurnished. In May of the same year the agent of state sold seventeen lots on Washington St., equivalent to a frontage of nearly three squares for $3,328. Twenty large lots on the outskirts of the “town” were sold for $1,467, approximately $lB an acre. A census of February, 1826, showed 760 inhabitants, 209 of these being school children. Comparing this with the last official census of 365,000 it is shown that Indianapolis now is over 4SO times as large. The Eagle Tavern, buijt in 1821, about where the Lombard Bldg, stands, was one of the three buildings of which the town boasted and was built of logs. BURNS PROVE FATAL Child, 3, I)>es in Hospital—Clothing Caught Fire. Burns received when she attempted to take lighted papers from a cook stove proved fatal to Mary Elizabeth Barlow, Negro, 3 ,who lived with her aunt, Geneva Martin, 428 W. Sixteenth St. She died late Thursday at city hospital. Miss Martin was at a neighbor’s home when the girl ran from the house with her clothing ablaze.

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