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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

"Culture Comes to Indianapolis," announced the New York Times Magazine when this hall opened, and the city has never quite stopped quoting the headline. Clowes Memorial Hall at 4602 Sunset Avenue on the Butler University campus opened on 18 October 1963, a 3.6-million-dollar memorial to Dr. George H. A. Clowes, the Eli Lilly research director who steered insulin into mass production, funded largely by his widow Edith Clowes through the Clowes Foundation with support from Lilly Endowment and the ...