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__NOTOC__ Indiana Landmarks is America's largest private statewide historic preservation organization. Founded as the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana by Indianapolis pharmaceutical executive Eli Lilly in 1960, the organization is a private non-governmental organization with nearly 11,000 members and an endowment of over $40-million.〔The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis By David J. Bodenhamer, Robert Graham Barrows, David Gordon Vanderstel, pg 685〕 The organization simplified its name to Indiana Landmarks in 2010. The organization has staff housed in regional offices throughout the state of Indiana and owns two museum properties: the Morris-Butler House in Indianapolis and the Huddleston Farmhouse Inn Museum in Cambridge City, Indiana. Regional offices are located in South Bend, Hobart, Wabash, Jeffersonville, Aurora, Evansville, Cambridge City and Terre Haute. Its state headquarters is at the former Central Avenue Methodist Church in Indianapolis. Landmarks' honorary board chair is Indiana's former Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard.〔 One of Landmarks' largest projects was the $30-million+ restoration of the West Baden Springs Hotel's exterior and public spaces. Indiana Landmarks helped lead the effort to bring riverboat gaming to Orange County, Indiana as a way to revitalize the French Lick Resort Casino and the West Baden Springs Hotel. ==New name, headquarters== On April 13, 2010, Indiana Landmarks announced its name change from Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. At the same time, it announced that medical device entrepreneur Bill Cook and his wife, Gayle have pledged $7-million to renovate the former Central Avenue Methodist Church at 12th Street and Central Avenue in the Old Northside Historic District of Indianapolis as a performance space and new headquarters for the organization to be known as Indiana Landmarks Center. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indiana Landmarks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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