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City Of Greensburg

314 West Washington Street
812-663-3344

In 1994, the Greensburg/Decatur County Contractual Public Library moved out of its building for a larger facility on East Main Street. The city made renovations to the building, transforming the former library into a comfortable home for city government. The most noticeable feature retained from the old Carnegie Library was the rotunda ceiling, which includes portraits of past heroes of arts and letters: Homer, Raphael, Noah Webster, William Cullen Bryant, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Von Schiller, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ludwig Van Beethoven.

The city of Greensburg, with a population of 10,260, is forty-seven miles southeast of Indianapolis. A railroad and bus line provides the chief transportation facilities. Among the city's products are flour, carriages, lumber, iron castings, auto accessories, caskets, hardware, brooms, wire, and shirts. The city has purchased the Greensburg Water Company.

Greensburg has a new federal building and post office, a community gymnasium which seats 4,000; a National Guard Armory; a Y. M. C. A. which is one of the finest in Indiana, built through the munificence of the late Nelson Mowrey, who gave the institution $175,000; and the Decatur Memorial Hospital erected by the county at a cost of over $100,000. The Indiana State I. O. O. F. Home is located to the east of the city.

In 2006, The City of Greensburg City Hall moved from its location on Michigan Street to the new offices located at 314 West Washington Street.


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