Omni Severin Hotel (Indianapolis, Indiana)

 hotel, high-rise, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1980s construction, 1910s construction, building/structure that has been renovated/restored/reconstructed

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The Hotel Severin opened in 1913. Located just one-half block north of Jackson Place it was ideally situated to capture the favor of affluent visitors to Indianapolis. Its investors included prominent entrepreneurs of the city among them Henry Severin, Jr., heir to the Severin wholesale grocery fortune, and Carl G. Fisher, famed as the founder of the Indianapolis Speedway and developer of Miami Beach.

The twelve-story hotel is constructed of a reinforced concrete frame with brick curtain walls. Rectangular in plan it is eleven bays wide along West Georgia Street and five bays along South Illinois and McCrea Streets. The first two floors are organized into a Renaissance scheme of monumental arch windows. From the third to the twelfth floor, rectangular windows follow a uniform grid pattern.

In 1989 the original hotel was restored and two new towers were added in the rear to create the Omni Severin. It was reopened in 1990 retaining the historic name, after Henry Severin, Jr., whose father was an immigrant merchant.

Omni Severin was most recently renovated in 2012. With 424 rooms, it is the fifth-largest hotel in the Indianapolis metropolitan area, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal in 2020.