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Batesville Memorial Public Library
131 North Walnut Street, Batesville, IN 47006

Last update: 06/01/2004

A new library building was completed in 1974...
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1948-1961 Photos

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The Hillenbrand Family home, site of the present Batesville Memorial Public Library
 

Breaking ground in 1972.
(L-R): ??, Hazel Andres, Gladys Enhaus, Fran Burst, ??, Bill Hisrich

The Walnut Street entrance of the new library (1974)
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Exterior of the new library  (1974)
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Inside the library (1974)
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The circulation desk  (1974).  Note the busts of John A. and Clara M. Hillenbrand.
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The new library was built on the property where the Hillenbrand Family home had been located,
131 North Walnut Street, Batesville.

* Photo Credits: Walter Scholer & Associates, Inc., Architects, Lafayette, IN
and Bill Engdahl, Hendrich-Blessing

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