Indianapolis's loudest brewery lives in an old warehouse on the Midtown fringe. Black Circle opened in 2016 in the Double 8 warehouse - now branded Refinery 46 - at 2201 East 46th Street on the SoBro edge, equal parts microbrewery, craft beer bar and live music venue, sharing the building with local businesses and a co-op workspace on the lower level. The name is a vinyl reference and the booking backs it up: the room has become the city's reliable home for metal, punk, hardcore and the heavier .....

The stadium that once hosted Red Grange now seats a cozy 5,647 - and Butler likes it that way. The Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl opened in 1928 as the Butler Bowl, a horseshoe designed by Indianapolis architect Fermor S. Cannon and built into a ravine on the north side of Butler University's new Fairview campus at 4600 Sunset Avenue, alongside the same year's Jordan Hall and the fieldhouse that would become hallowed Hinkle. The Bulldogs christened it with a 55-0 rout of Franklin College on 12 Octo.....

"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 .....

The climactic game of Hoosiers was filmed here - on the same floor where the real Milan Miracle happened in 1954. Hinkle Fieldhouse, at 510 West 49th Street on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis, is Indiana's Basketball Cathedral: the nation's oldest major college basketball arena, opened in March 1928 and still the home of Butler Bulldogs basketball and volleyball. Built as Butler Fieldhouse by a consortium of 41 Indianapolis businessmen and designed by Fermor Spencer Cannon, its 15,.....

Every August the biggest names in country, rock and hip-hop play a stage set against a one-mile dirt oval called the Track of Champions. The Hoosier Lottery Grandstand, on the Indiana State Fairgrounds at 1202 East 38th Street in Indianapolis, is the fair's big-event venue: a covered grandstand seating 13,921, rising to roughly 15,500 with track-level seating. The grandstand's bones are fair-history deep: the fairgrounds moved to 38th Street in 1892, and the grandstand-and-track complex has hos.....

A radio-and-TV student from the class of 1980 remembered the venue his campus never had - and 35 years later he wrote the 6.5-million-dollar cheque that built it. The Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, at 610 West 46th Street on Butler University's arts mall in Indianapolis, opened on 18 April 2013 as the university's purpose-built mid-size hall. The design brief was intimacy with concert-hall acoustics: the 450-seat proscenium theatre puts its last row just 70 feet from the stage, combinin.....

The Beatles played here in 1964 - twice in one day, once in the Coliseum and once at the grandstand - on grounds that have hosted the Indiana State Fair since 1892. The Indiana State Fairgrounds and Event Center, at 1202 East 38th Street in Indianapolis, spans 250 acres and more than a million square feet of event space, hosting over 400 events a year. The campus opened on 19 September 1892 on the former Voss farm with 72 buildings, a 6,000-seat grandstand and a mile racetrack - the Track of Ch.....

A 152-acre campus where an encyclopedic art museum shares grounds with a 100-acre sculpture park, a 1913 pharmaceutical fortune's mansion and 1.5 million holiday lights. Newfields, at 4000 North Michigan Road in Indianapolis, is the umbrella name adopted in 2017 for the Indianapolis Museum of Art and its estate. The institution is among America's oldest: founded as the Art Association of Indianapolis in the early 1880s, the museum grew into a collection of more than 150,000 works spanning Ameri.....

The stage backdrop is a demolished New York skyscraper. Rock the Ruins at Holliday Park, 6363 Spring Mill Road in Indianapolis, is a summer concert series played on the lawn behind The Ruins - Karl Bitter's Races of Man limestone statues, salvaged when Manhattan's St. Paul Building came down in the 1950s and won by Indianapolis in a national competition. Local artist Elmer Taflinger spent two decades assembling the sculptures, columns and fountains into the folly that now anchors the 94-acre pa.....

A modernist master built a Greek theatre for a seminary; a university inherited it. Shelton Auditorium at 1000 West 42nd Street opened in 1966 as the centrepiece of the Christian Theological Seminary campus, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes - the architect of the Dallas Museum of Art and Walker Art Center - in the crisp mid-century style critics called pre-Gothic. The hall honours Orman Shelton, the seminary's first president, and its steeply raked, nearly 400-seat bowl wraps the stage in the.....