VCHS and Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science Joint Projects

Movie

On Saturday December 4, 6:00 PM, at the Evansville Museum, there will be a special screening of the 1953 classic movie From Here to Eternity. Starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Donna Reed living in Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. This drama romance won eight academy awards including for best motion picture. Retired EVSC film studies teacher Terry Hughes will provide commentary on the film’s place in cinema history. Popcorn will be provided before the movie. Tickets for the show are $10 per person. As seating is limited, please contact the Museum at 812-425-2406 to purchase tickets in advance.

Click the link to purchase tickets online. https://www.gatemastertickets.com/store/webevents.aspx?CompanyID=gm232&catid=10 Click Availability on the top left. Scroll the calendar to December 4th. Select the From Here to Eternity Event.

Presented in Partnership with the Vanderburgh County Historical Society

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Lecture
On the 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Tuesday, December 7, Dr. James MacLeod, chair of the history department at the University of Evansville, will present Evansville in the Era of Pearl Harbor at 6:00 p.m. at the Evansville Museum. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the city of Evansville became one of the most important cities in the country, manufacturing hundreds of ships, thousands of fighter planes and literally billions of other items that contributed hugely to the Allies’ victory. In this lecture, illustrated with scores of images, MacLeod explains how all this industry came to be in Evansville, reveals the enormous impact that it had on social, economic, and cultural life, and analyzes how the city dealt with what was a time of astonishing transformation.

Following the program, Pearl Harbor collector Rex Knight will be present in the Museum’s current exhibition Remembering Pearl Harbor to share insight into the items on display.
Rex Knight has been a student of American military history since the age of 10. With more than 50 years of experience studying historical artifacts from the American Revolutionary War to World War II, Knight is an expert in evaluating and identifying historical military memorabilia. Knight has also written historical articles featured in World War II magazine and in 2001 authored the book Riding on Luck: The Saga of the USS Lang DD399. His collection of Pearl Harbor artifacts is among the most extensive and well documented in private hands.

As seating is limited, please make your complimentary reservation by calling the Museum at 812-425-2406.

Presented in Partnership with the Vanderburgh County Historical Society

Final days for Old National

Old National–looking to the future–spurned the NeoClassical building it had built in 1916. Apparently a few decades is about their threshold for newness. In 1967 it began plans for a new bank next door on Main St. They had the old Lincoln Hotel and several other old buildings at the corner of 5th and Main demolished.

The casualties of the 420 Main St building. All were demolished by the end of 1967 and the new Old National began construction after the new year.
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With the site cleared, construction began in earnest in 1968. The Old National building was designed by architect and real estate developer Jack W. Kelley from Tulsa, OK. The 18-story skyscraper was the tallest building in Evansville, though it was officially eclipsed by the silos at Igleheart Bros mill on First Ave.

The bank would move into the new building once completed and the old building was planned to be demolished for enclosed parking. The final complex would take up an entire quarter block and was estimated at $5 million to build. Interesting side note: the tower did include a 13th floor, often skipped in other tall buildings because of the unlucky nature.

The structure took nearly two years to build, and we were lucky to obtain several construction photos from the Clements family. As a worker at Industrial Contractors, he captured a handful of images on July 11, 1968 for his employer. The gallery below shows the tower being erected when it was about three stories tall.

Completed building c1970
The Petroleum Club which occupied the top two floors. It was the place for Evansville’s business leaders

The bank embodied a modernist architecture, but its unwelcoming lower levels had a flare toward brutalism. The monolithic structure failed to stimulate downtown business and in some ways portended the struggles of Main St in the late 90s. Old National Bank moved to its new riverfront building in 2004, and the 420 Building sat mostly vacant.

Proposed remodeling that was planned for Spring 2021 from http://www.5thandmaintower.com/

Tapped for redevelopment (shown above), the cost of renovations proved too costly. Ironically, the old 8-story bank was a more suitable size for Evansville. The new plans for redevelopment call for the pending demolition and several mixed-use buildings none higher than 6 stories.

You can say goodbye to the 420 building this Sunday with its implosion scheduled for 7am. The 5/3 Bank Building will then become the tallest building in town.