Downtown Evansville is the central business district of Evansville, Indiana . The boundaries of downtown Evansville have changed as the city has grown, but they are generally considered to be between Canal Street at the south and east, the Lloyd Expressway to the north, Pigeon Creek to the northwest, and the Ohio River to the southeast south and southwest. Downtown Evansville is entirely within Pigeon Township .
5-402: Albion Flats (sometimes referred to as "Albion Terrace" or simply "The Albion") is a housing unit in downtown Evansville, Indiana . It was designed by the architectural firm Shopbell & Company and built in 1911 as part of a trend to reform crowded living conditions for the working class. It was named after Albion Fellows Bacon , a famed advocate of improved public housing standards. It
10-626: Is home to the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and hosts other concerts and events. A wide variety of concerts, plays, and other special events are held at The Old National Events Plaza . Downtown is also home to the Children's Museum of Evansville , Evansville Museum , and Bally's Evansville , with the LST-325 Museum located just south of Downtown at the nearby Indiana-Kentucky State Line. The Ford Center
15-416: The cardinal points, due north-south and east-west. Thus, anyone entering or leaving downtown finds that the street makes a confusing oblique-angle turn in one direction or another. In the 1970s, the city suffered from problems such as decreased economic activity and suburban flight, but city-sponsored revitalization has since improved downtown conditions. Victory Theatre is a vintage 1,950-seat venue that
20-519: The city and Vanderburgh County . Berry Plastics , CenterPoint Energy , and Old National Bank , the largest financial services bank holding company headquartered in Indiana, have corporate headquarters in downtown Evansville with Mead Johnson 's headquarters just west of Downtown. Evansville's original downtown plat was made on about 200 acres, with streets running parallel to the river from northwest to southeast. Other streets nearby were laid out on
25-619: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. This article about a property in Vanderburgh County, Indiana on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Downtown Evansville The district constitutes Evansville's government, cultural and business center. The Evansville Civic Center houses the administrative offices for
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