Indianapolis Indiana Post Office Broad Ripple Station

ADDRESS: 6255 Carrollton Ave, Indianapolis, Indiana 46220
ARTIST: Alan Tompkins
TITLE: Suburban Street
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Indianapolis Broad Ripple Station post office is still an active, operating facility, and the mural can be viewed by interested members of the public. It resides in the lobby on a wall above the post office boxes.
YEAR: 1942

It doesn’t look like it would be difficult to photograph the cornerstone, but that evergreen bush did make this visit fun. I had to hold my entire body in front of the bush and hold my camera at a awkward angle just to get a crooked image of it. Funny! I guess I should learn photo editing software soon so I can fix them.

For those of you familiar with John Carlisle’s book, the Broad Ripple mural used for the cover of the book.

My visit was early on a Sunday, and they apparently do not keep the lobby open. Dang! I’ll have to revisit this one in the future for mural images, but for now, enjoy these early morning photos.

After reviewing a few of the images, it appears they remodeled the lobby. If you notice they converted the postmaster’s office into retail space for the post office boxes. It also appears they removed the bulletin boards on either side. I wonder what happened to them?

David W. Gates Jr.