Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1950 — Page 13

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ume Mansur Building Is Battleground In Health War

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rs. Richard) George E. Hume and Charles Mansur posed betore the partiaiy SSeS fd completed building in 1911. 3 : AND SO the influence of the era of New York roof gardens was felt in the heart of the Midwest. It bloomed .and withered in about a year's time. Indianapolis was not ready to vailable. My J is as Laks PH ¥ . accept innovation. ates perform : 1 : : i, CR : at 1 ori But it was ready for a new is, 4 : . 8 ts a office building, A smaller strucyo ture erected earlier by the two Dance * families, was torn down. Razed ecret. were the two homes and Ye Ark Ei ny was purchased to fill out the treasurer, and nt-at-arms,

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west 40-foot frontage.

With the passing of Ye Ark, a short-lived Indianapol mark dropped from the Old timers remember it as the finest eating spot. in town; a top saloon, Germanic in atmos. phere, operated by - Richard . Lieber, fathkr of the Indiana state park system. It was here that the political great of the day mapped strategy over the groaning boards. » = . . . MEANWHILE, other Iinterests in the city looked forward to capitalizing on office space, The Fletcher Trust, Consoli~ dated and Merchants Bank buildings mushroomed as the Hume-Mansur took shape. Suddenly Indianapolis awoke to more available office space

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11-Story Structure Holds Greatest Concentration of Doctors in Indiana

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y VICTOR PETERSON BACK OF THE GLEAMING terra cotta front of the

Hume Mansur building there wages a ceaseless war. Here, in its 11 stories, are concentrated 95 per cent of Indianapolis’ doctors with downtown office space. Some 250 physicians and 50 dentists practice in what has become recognized as the commercial medical center of

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Indiana. : And through the modern

doors opening on Ohio St. opposite the Federal building life surges with all its intensity. Traffic counts have shown 7000 to 8000 people a day ride the elevators, most seeking the services of the men and women in white. It is no wonder there is an

' Antiseptic air about the cor-

ridors and in the elevator cabs. There are looks of concern on the “faces of many when they

enfer, a look of relief, When,

they leave reassured. The young come in the arms of their parents for those important examinations after birth. The old comp on the

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an office building specializing in medical tenants — tenants fighting the endless battle against disease.

” » = BUT ROY WHITED, ever-smiling elevator starter and unofficial greeter, knows well that the 1000 rooms in this largest rentable area in Indiana contain a variety of business interests. He is a walking building directory and can call the floor and the office number of the some 250 rental units.

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their “way. to dentists of all specialties. He can steer them to a number of attorneys and insurance companies. If interested they can buy

At hig diregtion patrons find, doctors” and

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equipment, optical goods, brushes, corsets, drugs, heararrange for architectural and construction advice, get a check on taxes, buy a wig and have hair cut by Wallace (Wallie) Waugh, barber who has held forth in the building since 1914. sn» : : BUT BASICALLY it is a medical center.. Sooner or later virtually every person in the city finds it necessary to become part of the surging crowd thronging the lobby. Monday is the peak day. The hours of noon to 2 p. m. see the greatest influx, for this is the time most doctors are in

Mrs. Charles Dillon and Donna Kay . . .

joung coming to the Over the week-end people have had time to brood over ailments or precipitate others through overinduigence. By Monday they are ready to take care of that which should have been ° treated as os week waned. * - WHEN THEY PAR to the

Hume Mansur, it is to an area long associated with the medical profession. The building, partially - constructed im 1 and completed ‘the fotlowing year, was not originally in. tended as such a. center. At the time, however, the natural growth of Indianapolis had scattered the doctors. The

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frontage of the Federal building once was known as Doctors’ Row. Construction of the government project brought demolition to the block-long series of squat brick buildings which housed the cream of the city's medical world, There wasn't much across the way from the Row or the new Federal building. The . center portion of Ohlo St. between Meridian and Pénnsylvania Sts. was undeveloped.

” » ~ HERE LIVED Mr, and Mrs. James M. Hume and Mr. and

Mrs. William Mansur. As time passed, the two women, who

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They saw the city growing up about them, their friends moving to outlying districts. Each had one son, George E, Hume, living today in Pasadena, Cal, and Charles Mansur who preceded his mother in death,

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the throes of expansion. The four talked. The conclusion was to build a four-story office building. While still on the

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ARES grow. Five stories, six, seven and finally 10, The higher the building, the thinner the money had to spread. Yet, when the footings were in, one more story was projected on the salesmanship of Mrs, Ona B. Talbott, An energetic promoter and impresario, ' she vigioned a glamorous roof garden atop the new building wh the finest in musical entertainment could be presented under an allweather curved roof. She dreamed of tile flooring for the roof of one wing where society could gather around tables gala

than it had dreamed. Buf the money going into the HumeMansur trickled out. The day ahead looked dangerous when the Underwood Typewriter office was the first to be opened on the ground floor in October, 1011, Upstairs the skeleton was there. As tenants were assured, partitions and flooring went in to give the bullding flesh. So it was when John W. and Harry Robbins, realtors, became the first to open an office above the first floor in November, 1911. Dr. Harry E. Gabe was the second Aap and the first doctor. son, Dr. William Gabe, has his office there. And the name of Robbins has not left the directory, for Mrs. John W. Robbins has space as a corsetiere.

It is a flow of life peculiartd coal, lumber, dental and X-ray the building. ing aids, real estate, They can were sisters, became widows. architect's board, it began to With gay umbrellas. (Tomorrow: Among the Tenants)

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