Hawthorne Branch Library No. 2

Built in 1911 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Hawthorne Branch Library No. 2, also known as Hawthorne Education Annex, is a historic Carnegie library building located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Built in 1909-1911, with funds provided by the Carnegie Foundation, it is a one-story, rectangular, Classical Revival style brick and limestone building on a raised basement.”
Wikipedia article Hawthorne Branch Library No. 2, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 274 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1911, Neoclassical architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 70 N. Mount St., Indainapolis, 46222
When was it listed? May 2000
Category. building
Township. Wayne township
When was it built? 1911
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 00000499 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

12,230 words

This property stands in Wayne Township. History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Wayne Township - 12,230 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Hawthorne Branch Library No. 2: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mallory Metallurgical/ Indianapolis	Tungsten	Past Producer
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Indianapolis 522 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kentucky Ave Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ace Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eagle Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Kentucky Avenue Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ok Sand & Gravel Co., Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
R.L. Schutt Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Christamore House	0.5 miles	1985
Old Pathology Building	0.6 miles	1972
Haughville Historic District	0.8 miles	1992
Floral Park Cemetery	1.2 miles	2026
Nurses' Sunken Garden and Convalescent Park	1.2 miles	1996
Bush Stadium	1.5 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000499 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion County	All 274 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.