Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The national register needs more teeth/consequences IMHO 000
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yes. It sounds like a few individuals purchased menus and letterhead but my dad got what was left behind at the end. 010
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Dad’s salvage of the week - he found the building topper of the historic & long lost Tee Pee Restaurant that was listed on the National Register in 1986 & then demolished by the state fairgrounds in 1988. So many avenues of interpretation possible with this artifact. Incredible find. 281
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Agreed! And if not there are so many folks ready to donate 020
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Yes it’s been reported and details about replacing it should be available to us soon. I’ll share a link if there’s an option to fundraise for the replacement 110
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026RIP the pride on the circle historic marker June 2022-July 2026 💔 64112
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Ah! I spent so much time trying to figure that one out 🤓 010
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I waited til the 3rd date to talk about zoning, I deserve an award 3121
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Yes!!! Come on in soon and we can show you close up shots of the cornice where they came from - plus I still need to show you our historic bridge files 😍 120
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Thank you to Arika Herron at Axios Indianapolis for visiting us at the City-County Archives to learn about our origin story, collections, and research. We are a scrappy duo indeed! www.axios.com/local/indian... Miles to go.axios.comInside the "scrappy" effort to build Indy's City-County ArchivesThe archives are just two years old, with a 150-year backlog of information. 181
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Follow our project at: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/... for more details on findings, reporting, and meetings. 5/11 Eiteljorg event RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/greenlawn-... 5/12 Landmarks event RSVP: www.indianalandmarks.org/event/uneart...wridinfrastructure.comUpdates | WRID Infrastructure 021
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I'm excited to share what we've been working on for a year & a half: a documentary feature film about the excavation of our section of Greenlawn Cemetery. So proud of our team of archaeologists, historians, preservationists & genealogists working on the analysis of this significant historic site. 373
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026It has been an absolute honor to serve as the historian for the Rethink Coalition's SE gateway project. Thank you in particular to the Italian elders who shared so much with me. Here’s to the next steps for getting this damn thing built and reconnecting my community! rethink65-70.org/work/southea...rethink65-70.orgReport - Southeast Gateway Planning Study — Rethink Coalition 041
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Thanks to @indymonthly.bsky.social for visiting the City-County Archives and chatting about the “legal, historical, and ethical minefield” of work surrounding our Greenlawn Cemetery excavation. www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-cul...indianapolismonthly.comRead Our One-On-One With City-County Archivist Jordan RyanAfter the Henry Street bridge project recently got under way, Jordan Ryan's role came into play as the city-county archivist. 172
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Really excited about this project - the City's response for a missing middles housing pattern book! ❤️ Pull the RFQ here: www.indy.gov/workflow/fin...indy.govindy.gov 011
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Text me when this happens and I will alert the GIS team!! 020
Reposted by Jordan RyanAndrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive. 272113166469
Reposted by Jordan Ryanmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence. 241273979835
Reposted by Jordan RyanJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/01/2026Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026… 351101371924
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 26/12/2025You know you’ve made it as a municipal archivist when your Xmas gifts from dad are: a collage of materials from a demolition contractor who demo’d most lost city landmarks, Indiana world war memorial plaza ephemera, and an ashtray from the Lincoln Hotel 152
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025-drafted a digitization/vendor resolution for IT board -selected a CMS/digital collection system -wrote a policy doc on GIS Data + Archiving We are excited for 2026: learning our new CMS, building a humidification room to flatten drawings, and the next phase of cemetery research & engagement. ❤️ 030
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025-est training video on retention, disposition, and digitization -managed cemetery compliance for many projects, including the Greenlawn excavation that went 3 weeks shy of a full year, concluding with the excavation of 1,709 grave shafts -created a high school internship centered on the excavation 130
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025It’s hard building a municipal archive from scratch. Despite all the obstacles, we accomplished a lot this year. -108 reference questions answered -40 tours for ~150 people -8 lectures/panels for ~600 people -340 volunteer hours -doubled our vault and storage space -est online presence 170
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Kind of like trying to convince decision makers over and over again not to build a stadium on top of the graves of pioneers, babies, and enslaved people 020
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Mapping Inequality, the digital humanities platform for exploring redlining maps & data, launched in 2016. Never in my wildest dreams did I think they would ask me to write an essay on Indianapolis! It is an absolute honor to be included in this project: dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...dsl.richmond.eduMapping InequalityRedlining in New Deal America 051
Reposted by Jordan RyanSafe Streets Indy @safestreetsindy.org · 16/11/2025Today is World Day of Remembrance — a global event to remember those killed or seriously injured on our streets. Read more about this day, and our call to action for the City of Indianapolis, at the link below. #WDoR2025 #SafeStreetsIndy #Indianapolis #HoosierSky #VisionZerosafestreetsindy.orgSafe Streets IndyAdvocating for Safe Streets in Indianapolis, Indiana. 197
Reposted by Jordan Ryans. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/11/2025Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport. 10112443087
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Thank you @mirrorindy.org for featuring Deedee our reference archivist and her amazing work to identify historic glass negatives held at the Irvington Historical Society: mirrorindy.org/historic-pho... You have until Nov 30 to see the exhibit!mirrorindy.orgThe lost photographs of Osbert SumnerHistorian Deedee Davis’ research began seven years ago to tell a different story of life in Indianapolis from 1898-1903. 051
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Thanks IndyStar for celebrating Archives Month with local public, nonprofit, university, and governmental archives ❤️ www.indystar.com/story/opinio...indystar.comIndiana's archives preserve more than history — they protect the truth | OpinionEvery family does something important. No history is insignificant. Our archives make sure we remember that. 082
Reposted by Jordan RyanElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering. 171575312
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Exhibit Columbus installations + Alexander Girard exhibit today with Dad 💯 191
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025A fabulous week in Fort Wayne at the statewide historic preservation conference. 1201
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Also happy to share that the City-County Archives contributed images to the book. So proud of Cox & Cronin and can’t wait to see what they do next! #whatanarchivistdoes 030
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025It's every archivist's dream to watch a collection they poured their heart and soul into archiving become the foundation of a book. I spent 6 months processing the Evans Woollen collection back in 2016 and was absolutely elated when authors Phillip Cox and Niall Cronin told me about the book.iupress.orgWhat a Building DoesHoosier architect Evans Woollen (1927-2016) made a profound contribution to the built identity of Indianapolis, Indiana. Most recognized for introducing conc... 130
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025📣 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... 170
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025RIP 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 073
Reposted by Jordan RyanWildstyle @mrwildstyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I just rolled up to what I assumed was a public unveiling of a sculpture at Elanco but when I rolled up I was immediately turned away by this gentleman Who said I couldn't come back there Then he asked the guy walking up if he was there for the art unveiling and let him thru 😉 84710
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Another excellent Behind Closed Doors mausoleum tour at Crown Hill Cemetery. #thisplacematters 020
Jordan Ryan @jordanryan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025FYI - This grave shaft data is for the city’s road project only, not for the private developers stadium. 110
