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Ransom Place, Indianapolis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ransom Place is a historic district of downtown Indianapolis, a short walk from the Indiana State Museum and the Indiana History Center.
About Ransom Place
Where to stay in Ransom Place
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
A room in Ransom Place puts the Indiana State Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art and the NCAA Hall of Champions inside one downtown walk, and the Indianapolis Zoo not much further. The rest of Indianapolis spreads out. Rooms there put the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site and the Indiana University Natatorium in reach instead, and leave Ransom Place as a walk-through.
About Ransom Place
What are the main landmarks in Ransom Place?
Museums crowd these blocks. The Indiana State Museum, the Indiana History Center, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, the Crispus Attucks Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art stand within the same downtown reach, with the Indiana Historical Society among them. Memorials take a second row: the USS Indianapolis Memorial, the Vietnam War Memorial, the Indiana War Memorial Museum and the Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War Museum.
Older ground holds the Pierson-Griffiths House and the McCormick cabin site, with Central Christian Church nearby.
What is the history of Ransom Place?
The label is the fact here: Ransom Place Historic District is what the record names, a set of downtown Indianapolis blocks kept for the buildings standing on them. Dates are absent from the file. The Pierson-Griffiths House and the McCormick cabin site carry the older city, and the Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War Museum and the Crispus Attucks Museum hold the parts of the past that the surrounding blocks put on display.
Where is Ransom Place?
Ransom Place is a downtown quarter of Indianapolis, close enough to the Indiana State Museum and the Indiana History Center to walk.
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Updated September 2026