Richmond, Indiana Hotels

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Richmond is a city in east central Indiana, which borders Ohio. It is sometimes called the "cradle of recorded jazz" because some early jazz records originated there at the studio of Gennett Records, a division of the Starr Piano Company.

Richmond is noted for its historic architecture. In 2003, a book entitled Richmond Indiana: Its Physical Development and Aesthetic Heritage to 1920 by Cornell University architectural historians, Michael and Mary Raddant Tomlan, was published by the Indiana Historical Society. This work is the result of twenty five years of research on Richmond's growth and development. Particularly notable buildings are the 1902 Pennsylvania Railroad Station designed by Daniel Burnham and the 1893 Wayne County Court House designed by James W. McLaughlin of Cincinnati. Local architects of note include John A. Hasecoster, William S. Kaufman and Stephen O. Yates. Five large districts and several individual buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record.

Attractions:
Hayes Arboretum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Richmond Art Museum
Indiana Football Hall of Fame
Abram and Agnes Gaar Mansion (house museum)
Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College
Glen Miller Park and Madonna of the Trail statue
Old Richmond Historic District
Elizabeth Starr Historic District
Pennsylvania Railroad Station Historic District
Reeveston Place Historic District
East Main Street/Glen Miller Park Historic District
Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church (Tiffany interior and windows, Hook and Hastings organ)
Bethel AME Church (oldest AME church in Indiana: founded 1868)
Old National Road Welcome Center (convention and tourism bureau)
Whitewater Gorge Park and trail
Cardinal Greenway hiking trail
Morrisson Reeves Library and historical archive
Marceline Jones gravesite, Earlham Cemetery (Jim Jones's wife, who died in the Peoples Temple mass suicide)
Richmond Civic Theatre (plays, classic movies, and children's theater)

Richmond has three universities: Earlham College, Indiana University East, and Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana.
Richmond is home to two seminaries: Earlham School of Religion (Quaker) and Bethany Theological Seminary (Church of the Brethren)

Richmond is located at 39.830189, -84.890668.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 60.3 km² (23.3 mi²). 60.1 km² (23.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (0.26%) is water.

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