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The English Hotel and Opera House was built in several phases, beginning in 1880, by Capt. William Hayden English (for whom English, Indiana is named). It was the site of a sensational murder in 1917, when a 30-year-old African-American waiter was killed by the manager of the Milwaukee Brewers. Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned from its porch in 1932, and the building was razed in 1948 to make way for a J.C. Penny store. It is often lamented as one of the most significant preservation losses in Indianapolis history.
