Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau

The building at 350 West Ohio Street alongside Indianapolis' Central Canal brings together an archival storage, conservation, and imagining workspaces, exhibits, a public reading room near the State House.

With the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana State Museum across this canal and the Indiana State Library nearby, the archives... adds a cluster of institutions where visitors can explore the state's history within a few downtown blocks.

Behind the new public spaces are four floors of record storage.

Staff moved in about 90,000 cubic feet of boxes, said Chandler Leidy, executive director of Indiana Archives and Records Administration.

The new building storage areas are designed, however, to maintain the temperature and humidity needed for long term preservation.

a temporary move.

The archives moved out of the Indiana State Library's basement during a 2001 renovation and into a warehouse on E30th Street.

The arrangement was supposed to be temporary, but finding and financing a replacement took years.