Downtown Muncie, Indiana is blessed to have many beautiful old buildings. Sure, there’s a fair amount of modern stuff like you find in any town but they’ve done a nice job preserving and updating the old.
For example, the Patterson Block was built in 1876 by Arthur F. Patterson. It held shops, the city’s first police station and the telephone exchange. Incidentally, Patterson lived in Cincinnati for a while as well as other Ohio River cities while he built his career. He eventually moved to Muncie where he was a well known business man who eventually married the mayor’s daughter, according to an August 2021 article in Muncie’s newspaper The Star Press.
Today it’s home to an architecture firm, a homemade soap company and a church. It’s clearly an icon in the city’s downtown and one of the most striking buildings the fair city has to offer.
It rained when I had time to nose around downtown so going back another time to take advantage of some things I missed sounds appealing.
Another interesting Muncie building is the Carnegie Library. Check it out here!
NICE!!!!!!! You go to Indiana quite often.
Maybe I’ll get back there this December and take a closer look at the town.
That would be fun!
The Patterson Block is a treasure. When I was a kid, there was a great Italian restaurant located downstairs called Mezza Luna. We went there occasionally and I wish I had been more attentive. That would have been around 1999-2000 when my brother and I thought battling each other with Pokémon on our Game Boys was more important!
Kids never appreciate the finer things in life!