Title	Artist's Rendering of Newby Oval
Owning Institution	Indiana Historical Society
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Item ID	M0110_FF1-O
Description	Herbert William Foltz (1867–1946) was born in Indianapolis and attended public schools there. After graduating from Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute (1886) and the Chicago Art Institute, he set up an architectural practice in Indianapolis in 1891. In his youth, Foltz was an ardent advocate of the new sport of cycling, and in 1899 was elected president of the League of American Wheelmen. In 1898, Foltz designed the Newby Oval with a quarter-mile wooden track on the north side of Indianapolis near 30th and Central. With the growing popularity of bicycle racing the grandstands were designed to hold 20,000 fans. It was often filled to capacity with national events sponsored by the League of American Wheelmen. Major Taylor, Indianapolis’s hometown bicycle champion, raced there until 1900. Arthur C. Newby, of Indianapolis, was a bicycle race promoter and helped found the Zig-Zag Cycling Club in the 1890s. He later joined with James A. Allison and Carl G. Fisher and helped found the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Subject	Foltz, Herbert William (1867-1946) Bicycles Bicycles --History Racetracks Sports Architects--United States
Date	Circa 1898
Time Period	1890s (1890-1899)
Geographic Location	Indiana--Marion County--Indianapolis
Source Collection Name	Herbert William Foltz Papers, ca. 1898-1933
Source Collection Number	M0110
Digital Collection Name	Assorted Images from IHS Collections
Digital Collection Number	V0002
Format of Original	Digital
Digital Format	JP2000
Resolution	600 ppi
Copyright Notice	Digital Image © 2014 Indiana Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
CONTENTdm number	4004
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