L. S. Ayres
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L. S. Ayres and Company was a department store based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres. Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later
The former L. S. Ayres Annex Warehouse at 14–22 W. Maryland Street, south of the main store, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Former L. S. Ayres store at Lafayette Square Mall
L. S. Ayres flagship department store building in downtown Indianapolis
The Ayres Clock at Washington and Meridian streets is a landmark at the former flagship L. S. Ayres department store in downtown Indianapolis. The 1905 building was incorporated into Circle Centre Mall in the 1990s.
Circle Centre Mall
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Circle Centre Mall was an indoor shopping mall located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Circle Centre Mall was opened to the public on September 8, 1995, and incorporated existing downtown str
L. S. Ayres
…in 1997 by Browning Investments & Hagerman Construction for use as an office building and Parisian, later Carson's, department store, anchoring a new Circle Centre Mall. Carson's closed in 2018 and space is currently vacant. As urban populations shifted outward to suburban areas, Ayres moved closer to its customers by…
Interior of Circle Centre Mall in 2018
Looking north on Illinois Street at the Artsgarden with Circle Centre's western façade at right.
Historic façades integrated into the mall's Meridian Street frontage