The above picture is of "Old Main" of Indiana State University. This is another building you will not be able to find on the current campus. After being built in 1888, when the original Normal School building burned to the ground. When building the new main building for the school the old foundation was used. By the time this new school building would reach its 62 birthday, the people in charge had decided to demolish the building. Thus ending the life of "Old Main."

The Light House Mission of Terre Haute was founded in 1890, by a parishioners of the First Congregational Church of Terre Haute. It is interesting that I get to blog about the Mission, because I actually have volunteered over 150 hours there. The Mission is currently under the direction of Rev. Tim Fagg. The Mission supplies over 400 meals each day, and 43,653 nights of lodging for those in need of shelter. Another thing the Mission does, is it supplies Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets for those in need of food during the winter season. Also, Toys for Tots teams up with the Mission and Salvation Army to supply toys for those families not blessed enough to be able to purchase gifts for their family. The mission's current budget exceeds one million dollars, which is about fourteen times its budget in 1988 of $70,000. Countless people have been touched through either the services they mission supplies or the volunteer work they have done at the mission, and in the years to come I know many more will be.

Called "the most modern baker in the U.S." the new Miller-Parrott Baking Company was opened in 1915. The owners of the business were the three Miller brothers (Henry, Christian, and Charles) and Burton E. Parrott. The miller brothers started their business in Terre Haute back in 1880, with a "Cracker Factory" on North Sixth Steet. The factory was acquired by the U.S. Baking Company, and would later become the National Biscuit Company. After managing the National Biscuit Company for many years, the brothers left the company to thus create the Miller-Parrott Baking Company. The Baking Company was known for its crisp soda crakers, bread, rolls, buns, cakes, pies, cookies, and sweet breads. It also it recongnized for supplying the troops in WWII with the C ration. In 1955, the company was moved to Seelyville, and in a lucky surprise the building was not demolished. The building now houses the Light House Mission of Terre Haute.

Originally named "The Prairie House," the Terre Haute House was built in 1838 by Terre Haute's own Chauncey Rose. It was not called the Terre Haute House until 1855. Well, in good Terre Haute fashion the building was demolished in 1927, thus bringing about the end of the "first" Terre Haute House. The "second" Terre Haute House was a ten story hotel, and was said to be "one of the finest structures ever erected in Terre Haute." It was up and running in mid 1928, and the elaborate Indiana limestone facade drew many eyes to its beauty. By 1970, the Terre Haute House was closed again. After being a home for many residential tenants, the building along with the rest of the block on Wabash Avenue was demolished. In 2007, a new Hilton Garden Inn Terre Haute House was built and opened taking place of the old site of both Terre Haute House one and two.

In 1925, ISU built the Women's Residence Hall. The building came under the direction of Helen Reeves in 1926 and she retained her position for twenty-one years. In gratitude of her service the college renamed the building Reeves Hall in 1959. Now, you might be asking yourself where is Reeves Hall on the campus. Well most people pass it everyday without even acknowledging it or should I say what is left of it. The only remaining pieces of the hall are the gate and some of the gothic style figures. The building was torn down just 29 years after is was renamed in honor of Helen Reeves. The great people of Terre Haute thanked her for her service, and then destroyed the building. Now the site is just some grass and a walkway, so was the demolishing of the beautiful Gothic styled building really needed my answer would be NO.

Built in 1934, the Federal building at 7th and Cherry will soon be the new ISU college of business. Since the building was no longer usable due to new security protocols, the building was transferred to ISU and a new Federal building was built on Ohio street. I recently visited the building and was surprised about the beauty of the building. Everything about the it shows that they spared no expense when they were building the Federal Building. An interesting fact about the building, though, is that just a few years ago the USPS added a office in the back part of the building. Now that the organization is cutting cost the office is now being closed leaving a vacant space. Hopefully the closing of the post office will not stop or effect the new growth that the college is giving to the building.

Most of the time when people think of hotels they throw at names like, Holiday Inn, Hilton, Days Inn, Hampton Inn, ect., these names have become known throughout the United States. Back in the 1920s, in Terre Haute the name that everyone knew was the Deming Hotel. It was the hot spot, it had its own barber shop, billiard room, banquet hall, ballroom, and a private parking complex. This great hotel was built by Terre Haute native Demas Deming, who is also known for the park he created, his donations to his business partners college Rose Polytechnic, and his general giving nature. If one wanted a fun night on the town for cheap all you needed to do was head down to the Deming. Every Saturday night, there was an orchestras that played for the dances the hotel put on. The entrance fee for the dance was 75 cents. Now, though the building is used as an apartment complex for the elderly and disabled, and is owned by ISU.