From The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, May 16, 1922: The city council, without discussion, passed an ordinance last night setting the legal height limit for new buildings constructed on Monument Circle at 150 feet with a setback of twelve feet at the 108-foot mark. The Indianapolis plan commission recommended the height limit following many weeks of controversy between property owners and the board of control of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument. George E. Kessler, nationally known landscape architect, was consulted to make recommendations, and those were the ones contained in the ordinance. No protest was made by the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs and the board of control of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument who were asking a height limit of 140 feet with a setback of seventeen feet at the 108-foot mark. The former height limit was 86 feet.