Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium, Gary

Name: Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium
Address: Marquette Park Road, Gary, 46403, United States

#11 among attractions in Gary

Top attraction, Museum, History museum, Science museum

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Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium, formerly known as Lakefront Park Bathhouse and also known as Chanute Aquatorium, is located at One Marquette Drive at Miller Beach in Marquette Park, Gary, Indiana. The aquatorium was designed by George Washington Maher and constructed in 1921. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1994. It has been converted to a museum of flight, honoring Octave Chanute and the Tuskegee Airmen. ()

Built: 1921 (103 years ago)Architectural style: NeoclassicismCoordinates: 41°37'11"N, 87°15'24"W

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Marquette Park RoadNortheast Gary (Miller)Gary 46403 United States

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Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: City Methodist Church, Palace Theater, Long Lake, Marquette Park.

4.4 miW
Church
City Methodist Church, Gary
113 min walk • The City Methodist Church, latterly known as City United Methodist Church is a disused church in Gary, Indiana. Once the largest Methodist church in the Midwest, it ceased as a place of worship in 1975 after a relatively brief life of just over 50 years.
4.4 miW
Cinema, Palace
Palace Theater, Gary
113 min walk • The Palace Theater is a 1925 movie theater, now closed, located at 791 Broadway in Gary, Indiana, in the city's Emerson neighborhood. It was designed by the prominent movie palace architect John Eberson.
2.4 miE
Lake, Natural attraction, Nature
Long Lake, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
61 min walk • Long Lake is a large interdunal wetland in the Indiana Dunes region of Northwest Indiana. It was originally approximately 8 miles in length, but has been shortened due to development and drainage.
~930 ftE
Park
Marquette Park, Gary
5 min walk • Marquette Park, originally called Lake Front Park, is a municipal park completely surrounded by Indiana Dunes National Park. Its primary elements include 1.4 miles of white sand Lake Michigan beaches, inland ponds, impressively high sand dunes, wetlands, a lagoon, and indigenous oak savanna.
3.3 miE
41°37'43"N • 87°11'37"W
Ogden Dunes Beach, Portage
85 min walk • Beach, Park, Outdoor activities
1.1 miSW
Natural attraction, Nature, Sand dune
Miller Woods, Gary
29 min walk • Miller Woods is the far western unit of Indiana Dunes National Park in the lakefront community of Miller Beach, Indiana. Miller Woods is home to the federally endangered Karner Blue butterfly and the federally threatened Pitcher's thistle. Miller Woods is also the only part of the National Park that also adjoins the Grand Calumet River.
1.3 miS
City hall
Miller Town Hall, Gary
34 min walk • The Miller Town Hall is a two-story brick building in the Miller Beach community in Gary, Indiana, in the United States. It was constructed to serve as the administrative building for the town of Miller, incorporated in 1907, and was used for that purpose until Miller's annexation into Gary in 1918.
4.2 miSE
41°35'29"N • 87°11'9"W
Woodland Park, Portage
106 min walk • Park
4.1 miW
Museum, History museum
Gary Land Company Building, Gary
105 min walk • Gary Land Company Building, also known as Gary's First Town Hall, is a historic building located at Gary, Indiana.
3.2 miS
Locality
Lake Station
82 min walk • For those interested in history and culture, Lake Station has several attractions to explore. The city is home to the Lake Station Historical Society Museum, which showcases the rich heritage of the region through exhibits and artifacts.
4.9 miSW
Library
Louis J. Bailey Branch Library, Gary
125 min walk • The Louis J. Bailey Branch Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Gary, Indiana. It was built in 1918, and is a one-story, Colonial Revival style brick building on a raised basement.