All images © 2005 by Robert E. Pence
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City Hall
Long Center for the Performing Arts
Public Library
Former Wells Library, now a community cultural center
Former Monon (Chicago Indianapolis & Louisville) railroad depot on 5th Street.
1861 Fowler House at Main & 9th Streets, now the Tippecanoe County Historical Museum
Offices of the Wabash Valley Trust, the organization that has coordinated much of the historic preservation activity in the Lafayette area.
St. Mary Cathedral
First Baptist Church, 1872
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, 1869
Downtown Condo conversion
A place of lodging has stood at Fifth and Main since 1831. The Lahr House as it looks now dates to the mid 1880s and now houses apartments. The Knickerbocker, Indiana's oldest continuously-operating tavern in its original location, is on the first floor on Fifth Street.
In the 1980s, when the railroad ran down the middle of the street, Amtrak's ticket office and waiting room were in the Lahr.
Lafayette has many historic brick homes. I never even made it up to the Ninth Street Hill district, where the really magnificent ones are.
Row Houses
The Perrin House B&B
This one needs a little love
Loeb House B&B
Fowler Apartments, formerly Fowler Hotel
There has been a farmers' market on fifth street since the 1830s or 1840s. The market is open from May through October, 6:30 a.m. until noon on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and on Thursday evenings.
Crossing the Wabash River on the old Main Street bridge, now dedicated to pedestrians and bicycles
Downtown Lafayette is pleasantly free of most chains. Across the river is where you find the franchise restaurants – McDonald's, Panera, Starbucks etc. I saw a lot of college traffic going in and out of Scotty's on Friday night and Saturday
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