Nobody Asked Me, But… No. 256: Hotel History: Severin Hotel Indianapolis, Indiana

Stanley Turkel | October 27, 2021

by Stanley Turkel, CMHS Hotel History: Severin Hotel (424 rooms) The original Hotel Severin opened in 1913 when it replaced the Grand Hotel of Indianapolis. Its location directly across Jackson Place from the Union Station made it the favorite hotel for passengers on the 300 daily trains. It was built by Henry Severin, Jr., the heir to a wholesale grocery fortune, with help from real estate developers Carl Graham Fisher and James A. Allison, who had built the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The hotel was designed by Vonnegut and Bohn, an architectural firm active in early to mid-twentieth-century Indianapolis. When Bernard Vonnegut, ...