IUPUI is Indiana's premier urban research university. The campus enrolls more than 30,000 students in 21 schools and academic units.
The Campus : Building and Location Namesakes
McCormick's Rock at White River and the Indianapolis Canal, just south of NIFS.McCormick House
Campus Apartments on the River Walk
John W. McCormick (1791 - 1825) was one of the first European American pioneers of Indianapolis, settling near the eastern end of the former Washington Street Bridge in 1820. He built one of the first taverns in the area, in which a meeting was held by the state commissioners in June 1820 to decide the location of the new state capital. McCormick was chosen as the county commissioner in 1822.
McCormick's Rock commemorates the site of John McCormick's cabin as the first settler of Indianapolis on the east bank of the White River which is now the White River State Park.
