Minnetrista Boulevard Historic District

The principal residences in the district are:[2]

• "Nebosham" — Edmund and Bertha Ball House, 1907 Tudor Revival and Gothic Revival style residence designed by Wing & Mahurin, part of present-day Ball State University facility.
• "Maplewood" — William and Emma Ball House, 1899 Georgian Revival style residence with Greek Revival portico, and present day guesthouse for the Ball Corporation, with its first floor a historic house museum of the Minnetrista cultural complex.
• "Oakhurst" — George and Frances Ball House, 1895 Shingle style residence designed by Louis Gibson.
• Lucius and Sarah Ball House — c. 1875 farmhouse, remodeled/enlarged in Colonial Revival style by Balls in 1908, present day orientation center for the Minnetrista cultural complex.
• Mary Lincoln Cottage — 1907 Late Victorian style house.
• "Minnetrista" (residence site) — former Frank and Elizabeth Ball House, 1894 mansion designed by Louis Gibson and destroyed by fire in 1967. Present day site of the 1988 Center Building housing the Minnetrista Heritage Collection.

Minnetrista

Minnetrista is a cultural center is within the district on three former Ball Brothers properties, with museums, gardens, a sculpture park, and natural areas. It includes the "Oakhurst" mansion and historic gardens, the Lucius and Sarah Ball residence, and the surviving limestone columns of "Minnetrista" in the Colonnade Garden.

The Ball family, founders of the Ball Corporation, purchased most of the land along the north bank of White River between Wheeling and Granville Pikes in 1893. The name chosen by the family for the property was taken from a Sioux word, "mna" (pronounced mini) which means "water," and combined with the English word, "tryst," to form "Minnetrista," or, "a gathering place by the water." [3]