The Blacherne, Historical apartment building in Indianapolis, United States

The Blacherne is a seven-story apartment building of red pressed brick on a limestone foundation, measuring six bays by fifteen bays. Two circular bays project at its corners, and the entrance is a semicircular limestone portal in the Romanesque Revival style.

The Blacherne was built in 1895 for Lew Wallace, an Indiana native and author of Ben Hur, who used the novel's royalties to fund it. Wallace kept a residence in the building until his death. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Lew Wallace named the building after the Blacherne palace in his 1893 novel The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell. Wallace, an Indiana native, kept a residence in the building until his death, so the name ties the apartments directly to the author's own home and to the fictional palace he invented.

The building sits on North Meridian Street and is easily accessible from downtown Indianapolis. For those wanting to see the exterior architecture, the site is straightforward to reach and the design details can be viewed from the street.

The building's name comes from the Blacherne Palace in Lew Wallace's 1893 novel The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell. Wallace, who wrote Ben Hur, kept an apartment in the structure until his death. The corner bays and the semicircular Romanesque Revival portal are details to look for from the street.