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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

A brewer built the mansion, but the women stockholders own the story. The Indianapolis Propylaeum at 1410 North Delaware Street occupies the Schmidt-Schaf House, a turreted Queen Anne mansion built in 1890-91 for John W. Schmidt, president of the Indianapolis Brewing Company, and later home to fellow brewing magnate Joseph C. Schaf. The organization behind it is older than the house: in 1888 educator and suffragist May Wright Sewall incorporated the Indianapolis Propylaeum - Greek for gateway, ...