Down the Road

Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: restoration

  • Lifting a blighted neigborhood: The Angie’s List campus

    Since I wrote this, Angie’s List was purchase by its largest competitor, and left this campus for new space a few blocks west on the same street. This was the scene in 2008 where the Michigan Road and the National Road intersect on Indianapolis’s Eastside. Ew. Since then, this block and the block to the…

  • Grand old homes along Indiana’s National Road

    When you build a major road, people build along it to take advantage of the opportunities it brings. When that major road stands the test of time, as the National Road has in Indiana, you find some great old architecture along it. This home, for example, stands along the road in Plainfield. I’m no architectural…

  • No fallow season

    Wer rastet, rostet! – German saying (Whoever rests, rusts!) The Germans may be industrious, but we Americans are driven. Just before Christmas I read a Texas preacher’s blog entry in which he quoted an author’s observation of how Americans like to push themselves past burnout and then spend a weekend on the couch in a…