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Historic Structures of
Evansville, Indiana
Small Commercial Structures
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Evansville (pop 126,272) is the seat of Vanderburgh
Co. in southwest Indiana. Incorporated in 1847, it is an important
transportation hub and a regional cultural and industrial center.
Settled in 1812, the community grew as a river port, especially
after the completion in 1853 of the Wabash and Erie Canal linking
the Ohio River at Evansville with Lake Erie. It is named for
Robert M. Evans (1783-1842), who mapped the area.
The city is the seat of the University of Evansville (1854),
the University of Southern Indiana (1965), and the Evansville
Museum of Arts and Science.
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Cadwick Apartments, 1917
118 S.E. 1st St.
Building at left: Italianate
Building at right: Richardsonian Romanesque
(The ground floor of the building at left has been
altered. However, the building retains its original windows.)
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McCurdy Building
Two-Part Vertical Block, a style which became common
for commercial buildings in the late 19th century. The facade
is divided into two main "zones" that, though separated,
are nevertheless closely related to one another.
1920, 1937,1943
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Greyhound Bus Terminal
102 N.W. 3rd St.
Art Deco, 1937
Art Deco was a style of design popular in the 1920s and '30s
with its sleek, streamlined forms and elegantly geometric aesthetic.
Art Deco grew out of a conscious effort to simplify the elaborate
turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau style, to make it more responsive
to the new machine-age ideals of speed and glamour.
Says Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia: "Although the
movement began about 1910, the term Art Deco was not applied
to it until 1925, when it was coined for the title of the seminal
Paris design exhibition, Exposition Internationale des Arts D
coratifs et Industriels Modernes.
"It found expression in objects as diverse as locomotives,
skyscrapers, roadside diners, radio cabinets, jukeboxes, and
advertising displays.
"Primary examples of Art Deco in the U.S. are the interior
of Radio City Music Hall (1931) in New York City, designed by
Donald Deskey (1894-1989); and William van Alen's (1882-1954)
Chrysler Building (1930, New York City), with its sleek aluminum-
banded facades and arched and pointed spire."
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