White River State Park covers 250 acres (1 km²) in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, just west of the downtown area at 801 W. Washington Street. It is also one of six designated cultural districts in Indianapolis. Among the attractions located in or near the Park are the Indiana State Museum and IMAX Theater, Indianapolis Zoo and White River Gardens, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, NCAA Headquarters and NCAA Hall of Champions, the Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, Victory Field as home of the Indianapolis Indians Baseball, Military Park, The 1-800-QUIT-NOW Lawn @ White River State Park Concert Series as Indianapolis' premiere downtown outdoor concert venue, and the Indiana Cross Country Arena @ White River State Park.
It is considered America’s only urban cultural state park.
Restoration on this area began in the late 1980s, based around the Indiana Central Canal. The Canal was originally engineered in the 1830s as a way to ship goods through the state of Indiana, but the project went bankrupt and the Indianapolis section of the Canal was the only section that was ever dug. Although the Canal was never used for what it was built for, recent restoration and development have changed the area and it is currently functioning as a cultural center within the city of Indianapolis. One of the proposed focal points of the Park, Indiana Tower, was never constructed.
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