Jordan Ryan
@jordanryan.bsky.social
archives + archaeology + architecture
Beautiful weekend away 🧡
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Beautiful weekend away 🧡
🍁 “I’ve got an idea. Let’s go outside.” 🍁
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🍁 “I’ve got an idea. Let’s go outside.” 🍁
Exhibit Columbus installations + Alexander Girard exhibit today with Dad 💯
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Exhibit Columbus installations + Alexander Girard exhibit today with Dad 💯
A fabulous week in Fort Wayne at the statewide historic preservation conference.
October 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A fabulous week in Fort Wayne at the statewide historic preservation conference.
📣 Excited to share that What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen is available for pre-order!
Phillip Cox & Niall Cronin brilliantly tell the story of Woollen and his firm's journey from Midcentury Modernism to Brutalism to Postmodernism.
Pre-order: iupress.org/978025307410...
Phillip Cox & Niall Cronin brilliantly tell the story of Woollen and his firm's journey from Midcentury Modernism to Brutalism to Postmodernism.
Pre-order: iupress.org/978025307410...
September 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
📣 Excited to share that What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen is available for pre-order!
Phillip Cox & Niall Cronin brilliantly tell the story of Woollen and his firm's journey from Midcentury Modernism to Brutalism to Postmodernism.
Pre-order: iupress.org/978025307410...
Phillip Cox & Niall Cronin brilliantly tell the story of Woollen and his firm's journey from Midcentury Modernism to Brutalism to Postmodernism.
Pre-order: iupress.org/978025307410...
RIP the Albert Kahn-designed Crane Bay, what a sad loss
These photos are from July 2019. I just had this sick feeling the last crane bay wouldn’t survive
The tangible context of:
Industrial history
Labor history
West side neighborhood history
Gone.
#thisplacemattered
These photos are from July 2019. I just had this sick feeling the last crane bay wouldn’t survive
The tangible context of:
Industrial history
Labor history
West side neighborhood history
Gone.
#thisplacemattered
September 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
RIP the Albert Kahn-designed Crane Bay, what a sad loss
These photos are from July 2019. I just had this sick feeling the last crane bay wouldn’t survive
The tangible context of:
Industrial history
Labor history
West side neighborhood history
Gone.
#thisplacemattered
These photos are from July 2019. I just had this sick feeling the last crane bay wouldn’t survive
The tangible context of:
Industrial history
Labor history
West side neighborhood history
Gone.
#thisplacemattered
September 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Henry Street Bridge Project's Greenlawn Cemetery excavation is well over 1,500 grave shafts now on our little 1.5 acre strip.
Don't forget to follow along on our project website where we provide updates for the public: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
Don't forget to follow along on our project website where we provide updates for the public: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
September 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Henry Street Bridge Project's Greenlawn Cemetery excavation is well over 1,500 grave shafts now on our little 1.5 acre strip.
Don't forget to follow along on our project website where we provide updates for the public: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
Don't forget to follow along on our project website where we provide updates for the public: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
🪦 Happy archaeology month 🪦
The City-County Archives was thrilled to table at the Indiana State Museum’s Archaeology Family Discovery Day yesterday. We shared historic maps and deed research with guests. Some guests made their own marker/monuments. Thank you to all who stopped by!
The City-County Archives was thrilled to table at the Indiana State Museum’s Archaeology Family Discovery Day yesterday. We shared historic maps and deed research with guests. Some guests made their own marker/monuments. Thank you to all who stopped by!
September 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🪦 Happy archaeology month 🪦
The City-County Archives was thrilled to table at the Indiana State Museum’s Archaeology Family Discovery Day yesterday. We shared historic maps and deed research with guests. Some guests made their own marker/monuments. Thank you to all who stopped by!
The City-County Archives was thrilled to table at the Indiana State Museum’s Archaeology Family Discovery Day yesterday. We shared historic maps and deed research with guests. Some guests made their own marker/monuments. Thank you to all who stopped by!
Yesterday marked our final Archives teaching day for our Indyology internship. The students learned about memorialization from Leon Bates & Ahmaud Carroll-Tubbs, looking at national examples, then designed their own memorials for our cemetery. They then sculpted monuments to place in their designs.
July 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Yesterday marked our final Archives teaching day for our Indyology internship. The students learned about memorialization from Leon Bates & Ahmaud Carroll-Tubbs, looking at national examples, then designed their own memorials for our cemetery. They then sculpted monuments to place in their designs.
The City-County Archives went on a great field trip yesterday, visiting Ball State’s architectural archivist Cody Sprunger. We learned about DIY humidification chambers to make our architectural drawing collection work more efficient. And of course we had to end the trip with some Pizza King!
July 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The City-County Archives went on a great field trip yesterday, visiting Ball State’s architectural archivist Cody Sprunger. We learned about DIY humidification chambers to make our architectural drawing collection work more efficient. And of course we had to end the trip with some Pizza King!
Thanks to everyone who attended our Greenlawn Cemetery excavation + Henry Street Bridge project public information meeting. I am excited to see where the research takes us in the next few years. In case you missed the meeting, the presentation slides are here: wridinfrastructure.com/june-2024-up...
July 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thanks to everyone who attended our Greenlawn Cemetery excavation + Henry Street Bridge project public information meeting. I am excited to see where the research takes us in the next few years. In case you missed the meeting, the presentation slides are here: wridinfrastructure.com/june-2024-up...
Last week we hit a new benchmark on the Henry Street Bridge Project excavation - reaching over 1,000 graveshafts identified. Not even 50% through our excavation. On our tiny, 1.5 acre parcel of a larger 25 acre cemetery.
July 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Last week we hit a new benchmark on the Henry Street Bridge Project excavation - reaching over 1,000 graveshafts identified. Not even 50% through our excavation. On our tiny, 1.5 acre parcel of a larger 25 acre cemetery.
I’m shattered.
Our traffic calming project survived 2 months before a motorist wrecked through it.
Listen to neighborhoods when they tell you we need more traffic calming measures.
Pedestrians and cyclists are not safe. 💔
Our traffic calming project survived 2 months before a motorist wrecked through it.
Listen to neighborhoods when they tell you we need more traffic calming measures.
Pedestrians and cyclists are not safe. 💔
June 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I’m shattered.
Our traffic calming project survived 2 months before a motorist wrecked through it.
Listen to neighborhoods when they tell you we need more traffic calming measures.
Pedestrians and cyclists are not safe. 💔
Our traffic calming project survived 2 months before a motorist wrecked through it.
Listen to neighborhoods when they tell you we need more traffic calming measures.
Pedestrians and cyclists are not safe. 💔
Special thanks to my reference archivist who surprised me & assembled this model before a tour. This is a rejected proposed plan for the GM stamping plant. It’s a great artifact and teaching tool that captures a moment in time of the downtown and west side’s built environment.
#whatanarchivistdoes
#whatanarchivistdoes
June 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Special thanks to my reference archivist who surprised me & assembled this model before a tour. This is a rejected proposed plan for the GM stamping plant. It’s a great artifact and teaching tool that captures a moment in time of the downtown and west side’s built environment.
#whatanarchivistdoes
#whatanarchivistdoes
I'm excited to share that Jeannie Regan-Dinius and myself are starting a dialogue at the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation conference. Our presentation, "The Monumental Effort to Excavate and Memorialize Greenlawn Cemetery," discusses the physical, archaeological, & contextual challenges.
May 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I'm excited to share that Jeannie Regan-Dinius and myself are starting a dialogue at the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation conference. Our presentation, "The Monumental Effort to Excavate and Memorialize Greenlawn Cemetery," discusses the physical, archaeological, & contextual challenges.
🥳 Happy Historic Preservation Month!
What do a union steelworker, a clairvoyant palmist, and the inventor of Bar Keepers Friend all have in common? These individuals all made history in the Fountain-Fletcher District: the area including the Fletcher Place, North Square, and Fountain Square n’hoods.
What do a union steelworker, a clairvoyant palmist, and the inventor of Bar Keepers Friend all have in common? These individuals all made history in the Fountain-Fletcher District: the area including the Fletcher Place, North Square, and Fountain Square n’hoods.
May 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🥳 Happy Historic Preservation Month!
What do a union steelworker, a clairvoyant palmist, and the inventor of Bar Keepers Friend all have in common? These individuals all made history in the Fountain-Fletcher District: the area including the Fletcher Place, North Square, and Fountain Square n’hoods.
What do a union steelworker, a clairvoyant palmist, and the inventor of Bar Keepers Friend all have in common? These individuals all made history in the Fountain-Fletcher District: the area including the Fletcher Place, North Square, and Fountain Square n’hoods.
3 neighborhoods came together to do a tactical urbanism project on a problematic piece of infrastructure impacting each of us.
And I spoke with WFYI about it: www.wfyi.org/news/article...
Oh, and I thoroughly enjoyed waving the safety flag at motorists.
And I spoke with WFYI about it: www.wfyi.org/news/article...
Oh, and I thoroughly enjoyed waving the safety flag at motorists.
April 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
3 neighborhoods came together to do a tactical urbanism project on a problematic piece of infrastructure impacting each of us.
And I spoke with WFYI about it: www.wfyi.org/news/article...
Oh, and I thoroughly enjoyed waving the safety flag at motorists.
And I spoke with WFYI about it: www.wfyi.org/news/article...
Oh, and I thoroughly enjoyed waving the safety flag at motorists.
2 years today without our Paul 💔
We love you and we miss you very, very much
Every volume, every talk, every paper, every collection… everything is to honor your work and the work you left us. Miles to go ❤️
We love you and we miss you very, very much
Every volume, every talk, every paper, every collection… everything is to honor your work and the work you left us. Miles to go ❤️
April 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
2 years today without our Paul 💔
We love you and we miss you very, very much
Every volume, every talk, every paper, every collection… everything is to honor your work and the work you left us. Miles to go ❤️
We love you and we miss you very, very much
Every volume, every talk, every paper, every collection… everything is to honor your work and the work you left us. Miles to go ❤️
A story of 3 neighborhoods - Fletcher Place, Fountain Square, and North Square - coming together to work on a shared infrastructure problem: speeding motorists on Calvary/McCarty Street getting on or off the highway. Can’t wait to see what we do next. ❤️
April 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A story of 3 neighborhoods - Fletcher Place, Fountain Square, and North Square - coming together to work on a shared infrastructure problem: speeding motorists on Calvary/McCarty Street getting on or off the highway. Can’t wait to see what we do next. ❤️
Thanks for all the kind words at my Society of Indiana Archivists conference plenary talk yesterday. It means a lot. 💞
I'll be at Indy Design Week 4/25 to talk about municipal logos and the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation 5/17 to talk about Greenlawn Cemetery & monument-making.
I'll be at Indy Design Week 4/25 to talk about municipal logos and the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation 5/17 to talk about Greenlawn Cemetery & monument-making.
April 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thanks for all the kind words at my Society of Indiana Archivists conference plenary talk yesterday. It means a lot. 💞
I'll be at Indy Design Week 4/25 to talk about municipal logos and the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation 5/17 to talk about Greenlawn Cemetery & monument-making.
I'll be at Indy Design Week 4/25 to talk about municipal logos and the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation 5/17 to talk about Greenlawn Cemetery & monument-making.
We found 85 grave shafts last week. That’s on our small, 1.5 acre parcel, in the larger footprint that is the city’s first public cemetery.
Follow our excavation updates here: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
Follow our excavation updates here: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
March 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
We found 85 grave shafts last week. That’s on our small, 1.5 acre parcel, in the larger footprint that is the city’s first public cemetery.
Follow our excavation updates here: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
Follow our excavation updates here: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
Happy 317 Day! (317 is the area code for Indianapolis for you non-Indy folks)
I spent it moving the contents of 24 flat files in DMD’s long range planning area - & maintaining the current order as I had already inventoried these drawers. Can’t wait to make this collection more accessible 😍
I spent it moving the contents of 24 flat files in DMD’s long range planning area - & maintaining the current order as I had already inventoried these drawers. Can’t wait to make this collection more accessible 😍
March 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Happy 317 Day! (317 is the area code for Indianapolis for you non-Indy folks)
I spent it moving the contents of 24 flat files in DMD’s long range planning area - & maintaining the current order as I had already inventoried these drawers. Can’t wait to make this collection more accessible 😍
I spent it moving the contents of 24 flat files in DMD’s long range planning area - & maintaining the current order as I had already inventoried these drawers. Can’t wait to make this collection more accessible 😍
I'm thrilled to announce that I'm a keynote speaker at Indy Design Week 2025! I'll be indulging in my old visual culture days, discussing logos, letterheads, and all things typography-related about local government. 😍
Check out the full week of events and ticketing here: www.indydesignweek.com/2025
Check out the full week of events and ticketing here: www.indydesignweek.com/2025
March 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that I'm a keynote speaker at Indy Design Week 2025! I'll be indulging in my old visual culture days, discussing logos, letterheads, and all things typography-related about local government. 😍
Check out the full week of events and ticketing here: www.indydesignweek.com/2025
Check out the full week of events and ticketing here: www.indydesignweek.com/2025
As of Friday, the city's Henry Street Bridge project had identified *362* grave shafts on our small, 1.5 acre strip.
View our Updates page for more excavation details: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
This place matters.
View our Updates page for more excavation details: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
This place matters.
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
As of Friday, the city's Henry Street Bridge project had identified *362* grave shafts on our small, 1.5 acre strip.
View our Updates page for more excavation details: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
This place matters.
View our Updates page for more excavation details: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
This place matters.