Chrome Holiday Inn Columbus Indiana Interstate 65 Postcard c1968

Chrome multiview of the Holiday Inn at the junction of Interstate 65 and Indiana 46 in Columbus, Indiana — aerial view showing the long low motel building, kidney-shaped pool, and acres of parking lot surrounded by flat Indiana fields, paired with interior shots of the dining room (waitresses in uniform, red carpet, chandeliers) and a guest room. Columbus, Indiana is a remarkable small city — a Midwest manufacturing town that became one of the most architecturally significant places in America, home to buildings by Eero Saarinen, I. M. Pei, and Richard Meier commissioned by the Cummins Engine Foundation beginning in the 1950s. The Holiday Inn at I-65 and Indiana 46 was the highway gateway to all of that, and travelers arriving here in the late 1960s would have had no idea they were about to drive into one of the great outdoor architecture museums in the world.

• Caption: Holiday Inn of Columbus, Indiana


• Publisher: Concept Color, Indianapolis, IN


• Status: Unposted