INDIANAPOLIS — Marsh Davis, president and CEO of Indiana Landmarks, will step down on April 15, 2025. He has served as the nonprofit organization’s president since 2006.
His legacy includes such high-profile projects as the preservation and re-use of Indianapolis’s Bush Stadium, turnkey restoration of Evansville’s Art Moderne Greyhound Bus Depot, and launching restoration of the House of Tomorrow in Indiana Dunes National Park. In addition, he introduced significant programmatic innovations including Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program and Sacred Places Indiana.
Since it was founded in 1960, Indiana Landmarks has grown to become the nation’s largest statewide preservation organization, with more than 6,000 members and nine field offices throughout the state. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s preeminent leaders in his field, Davis oversaw much of Indiana Landmarks’ growth, guiding the nonprofit to its status as a national model in historic preservation.
Davis first worked for Indiana Landmarks from 1984 to 2002—as a field surveyor and director of community services—before moving to Texas to serve as executive director of the Galveston Historical Foundation. In 2006, he returned to Indiana to serve as Indiana Landmarks’ president, succeeding Reid Williamson and Robert Braun to become only the third president in the organization’s history.
