Indiana Landmarks is America's largest private statewide historic preservation organization. Founded as the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana by Indianapolis pharmaceutical executive Eli Lilly in 1960, the organization is a private non-governmental organization with nearly 11,000 members and an endowment of over $40-million. The organization simplified its name to Indiana Landmarks in 2010.
The organization has staff housed in regional offices throughout the state of Indiana and owns two museum properties: the Morris-Butler House in Indianapolis and the Huddleston Farmhouse Inn Museum in Cambridge City, Indiana. Regional offices are located in South Bend, Hobart, Wabash, Jeffersonville, Aurora, Evansville, Cambridge City and Terre Haute. Its state headquarters is at the former Central Avenue Methodist Church in Indianapolis. Landmarks' honorary board chair is Indiana's former Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard.
One of Landmarks' largest projects was the $30-million+ restoration of the West Baden Springs Hotel's exterior and public spaces. Indiana Landmarks helped lead the effort to bring riverboat gaming to Orange County, Indiana as a way to revitalize the French Lick Resort Casino and the West Baden Springs Hotel.
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