Massachusetts Avenue

	Massachusetts Avenue Commercial District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Massachusetts Avenue looking southwest from Alabama Street.
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Location	Roughly bounded by one block to either side of Massachusetts Ave. from Delaware St. to Interstate 65, Indianapolis, Indiana
Coordinates	39°46′30″N 86°8′55″W / 39.77500°N 86.14861°W / 39.77500; -86.14861Coordinates: 39°46′30″N 86°8′55″W / 39.77500°N 86.14861°W / 39.77500; -86.14861
Architectural style	Art Deco, Islamic, Italianate, Modern Movement, Renaissance Revival, Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	82000064 (original); 100004725 (increase)
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 2, 1982
Boundary increase	December 4, 2019

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Massachusetts Avenue, or simply Mass Ave, is one of six designated cultural districts in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is located just a few blocks northeast of Monument Circle. Massachusetts Avenue was one of the four original diagonal streets of downtown Indianapolis in Alexander Ralston's plan of 1821. Today it lies at the heart of the city's arts district. It offers some of the city's most visible theaters and art galleries as well as a number of shops and eateries.^[1]

Gentrification in the 1990s propelled the area from squalor to one of the city's more fashionable addresses. Currently, redevelopment of Mass Ave focuses on fostering locally owned shops, theaters, and restaurants.^[2]