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I was a student at IUPUI during the late 70’s and early 80’s, and served on the Campus Development Committee. Yes, most of the homes were bulldozed for new buildings. But a lot of those homes no longer belonged to the original families. Many were purchased by investors, who turned them into very expensive student housing, back before most of the dorms were built (there was a dorm for nursing students over on the “old campus” and the married student housing units over by the Administration Building). Every home that was bulldozed was purchased by the university; we can have arguments about fair pricing if you want. But it was usually more than the owner would have received in a standard real estate transaction.
So, sorry for the loss of history. But let’s not get too tied down to history. Something good came of it…a university which served a lot of minority students, as well as non-minority students, who couldn’t afford school in Bloomington, West Lafayette, Muncie, or Terre Haute.
I shed no tears over the fate of Lockfield Gardens. It was closed, an eyesore, and dangerous. It became something better after the partial demolition and re-development.
Timothy S.
Raymond R.
Dan M.
All three were excellent analysis and great comments.
What destroyed Indiana Avenue and Ransom Place was not IUPUI. It was Civil Rights, desegregation and the end of redlining. Before that, blacks of all income levels were forced into small neighborhoods. You had the Madame Walkers living in the same neighborhood as poor blacks. They built incredible, financially diverse neighborhoods that brought culture and innovation and a strong pride.
But when the discriminatory practices like redlining ended, many wealthy blacks moved out and into white neighborhoods. Growing up, there was a wonderful family, the Stuart’s. They lived on north Meridian Street. He grew up off of Indiana Avenue where he started Stuart Moving and Storage and his brothers started Stuart Mortuary. When he could, after redlining ended, he moved his family into a wealthy , white area, because he had the money to do so. This happened with most well off black families. What that left in Ransom Place and Indiana Avenue was poorer blacks who couldn’t afford to move. As time went on, the houses became rundown, the neighborhoods blighted and eventually IUPUI bought the cheap and in many cases abandoned homes and businesses because it was cheap.
This was a similar story of the old Italian Neighborhood around Holy Rosary. The Italian Families moved to nicer neighborhoods as they made money and the old neighborhood became rundown and mostly bought out by Eli Lilly.
Same story with Germans around Holy Cross, Jews around the near Southside and Irish from Irish Hill near Fountain Square.
IUPUI did not destroy the black neighborhoods, the exiting of wealth did that.
I started at IUPUI in 1988, and I remember the student union building was in an old shotgun cottage about where the law school sits now. It was one of the last houses left on the block and it was in pretty good shape, but it was tiny. For a young white kid from the suburbs, it was hard to see then, but I am sure it was once a real neighborhood.
Raymond R. I think your comments are spot on. Timothy S, you have painted another brush stroke in that story.
Unfortunately the neighborhoods in and around the IUPUI campus were mostly all rundown and unmaintained, including Lockfield Gardens. All of Indiana Avenue was also basically beyond repair, including the original Water Company Canal and West street. Very little private ownership remained, the livable residences were about all just rentals.
I hope this woman sells some books, but she’s living in the past on her best memories.