The earliest sculpture by an Indianapolitan was the statue of Benjamin Franklin by John Mahoney, erected in 1874 above the front doorway of the Franklin Insurance Company building in the southeast segment of the Circle.

A martial man is many times full-faced, with a lively, high colour, like sun-burnt, or like raw tanned leather; a fierce countenance, his eyes being sparkling or sharp and darting, and of yellow colour; his hair, both of head and beard, being reddish (but herein you must vary according to the sign).

The house itself, which was built before the arrival of the von Ernsts, looked, in an uncertain nightmarey way, like the blurred skyline of a cathedral town.

Regardless of GRM used, graffiti ghosts persist. Protect cladding with surface coating or replace with graffiti resistant paint or laminate.