The Indianapolis Propylaeum

The Women’s History Tea has been renamed and will now be known as Women’s Literary Tea, to be held on Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. as a virtual event. In connection with the Prop’s celebration of Indy’s Bicentennial, Dr. Wendy Gamber, Chair of the IU Department of History, will be our featured speaker to talk about her book, “The Notorious Mrs. Clem, Murder and Money in the Gilded Age.” This is the story of an Indianapolis housewife who was suspected of two gruesome m

Indy Bicentennial Architecture Join us for a presentation by Jordan Ryan, independent architectural historian and archivist and secretary of the board for Historic Urban Neighborhoods of Indianapolis, on the value of historic Indianapolis archival collections. This virtual program will highlight local architectural collections recently made accessible during Ryan's work managing the Indianapolis Bicentennial Collecting Initiative on behalf of the Indiana Historical Society. T

Jackie Nytes, CEO of the Indianapolis Public Library, which has 24 branches and has a circulation of 9.6 million, will speak to Propylaeum members Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. on zoom. The library has opened new branches in recent years on Michigan Road and in Martindale-Brightwood areas and recently bought a land parcel that was part of John Strange Elementary School for a new branch. New buildings and renovations, as well as the library's big bicentennial project that inclu