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Barton Towers
Etheridge Knight “The Idea of Ancestry”

Booth Tarkington House
Booth Tarkington The World Does Move

Catacombs
Maurice Broaddus Pimp My Airship

Central State Hospital
Multiple Works

Crossroads of America
Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions

Fletcher Trust Building
C. L. Moore “The Black God’s Kiss”

Garfield Park
Multiple Works

Indiana Avenue
Mari Evans “Ethos and Creativity: The Impulse as Malleable”

Jacob Klein Bakery and General Store
Johnny Gruelle “Raggedy Ann and the Kittens”

Kurt Vonnegut Mural
Kurt Vonnegut Marian McFadden Memorial Lecture

Lockerbie Street
James Whitcomb Riley “Lockerbie Street”

Mari Evans Mural
Mari Evans “I Am a Black Woman”

Meredith Nicholson House
Meredith Nicholson The House of a Thousand Candles

Pogue’s Run
John Green Turtles All the Way Down

Red Key Tavern
Dan Wakefield Going All the Way

Shortridge High School
Madelyn Pugh Multiple Works

Skiles Test Nature Park
Susan Neville “Blue”

The Pyramids
Adrian Matejka “Ascendant Blacks”

Woodruff Place
Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons
The Pyramids
39.920231, -86.221082
Designed by the famed architect Kevin Roche for the College Life Insurance Company of America, The Pyramids have become a landmark in Pike Township’s College Park neighborhood since their completion in the early 1970s. The Pyramids, noted for their modern architecture, appear in the poetry of Adrian Matejka, who grew up nearby.