Greyhound Bus Terminal

The Greyhound Bus Terminal at 100 Main Street is a Streamline Moderne landmark from 1938, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by W. S. Arrasmith — the Louisville-based architect who created dozens of similar terminals for Greyhound across America — the building features the characteristic curved corners, horizontal banding, and glass-block windows of the style. It reads as a deliberate symbol of modernity and speed, appropriate for a bus company.

The terminal is still in use as a transit facility, which preserves its original function even as the building itself has become an architectural relic. The curved facade on Main Street is the best view, showing Arrasmith's design at its most confident. Arrasmith's other terminals, scattered from Chicago to Miami, form one of the more coherent bodies of commercial vernacular architecture from the Depression era.

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The Evansville Greyhound Terminal is a 1938 Streamline Moderne building that is one of the most intact examples of the style in Indiana. It was designed by W. S. Arrasmith, who designed nearly all of Greyhound's Art Deco and Streamline Moderne bus terminals across the country in the 1930s and 1940s — a body of work that made him one of the more influential commercial architects of his era, though his name is little remembered today.