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Wheeler Arts Community
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95 years old
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana
United States
Last Login: 12/10/2008
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| General | The Wheeler Factory project represents an unprecedented Indianapolis collaboration between city, state, and federal agencies, neighborhood organizations, and higher education, to use the arts for the revival of the historic Fountain Square Neighborhood. The Wheeler Building has been a site for innovation in one capacity or another since its construction in 1914. Mr. Wheeler, one of the founders of the Indianapolis 500 race, owned and operated the Wheeler Carburetor Company—the world’s first—during the golden age of Indianapolis auto manufacturing. Although the local automotive business soon died out, the Wheeler Company continued to make carburetors at the warehouse for companies such as Harley Davidson motorcycles for many years. The Wheeler Company later sold the structure to the Ransburg Company, who produced many different products. It was in this building that the Ransburgs invented the technique of electrostatic painting. The name “Ransburg” remains on the steps of the threshold. The Ransburg Company vacated the building years later, leaving it in a state of deterioration for over a decade. In the 1990s South East Neighborhood Development Inc. (SEND) began a study to determine the best use of the site. The study determined that artists are looking for a building where they could both live and work. SEND believed that such a facility would increase commerce in the community, and decided to pursue the project. SEND spearheaded the project with $5 million in funding from private, government, and non-profit sources. The University of Indianapolis also became a partner in the project, providing a children’s theater for neighborhood children, classes for area residents and University of Indianapolis students, a Community Programs extension office, and a studio for UIndy fine arts instruction. |
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| Status: | Single | | Body type: | More to love! | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Occupation: | I hold many artists within 24 hours a day... |
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