Greenfield - Eden, Indiana - Lobby Display of Big Game Taxidermy

My father was a manager for IMI and I was in the company's office several times while I was growing up. Founder Pete "Skunk" Irving (don't know how he got his nickname, but that was what I most often heard him called) was a big game hunter. There was a polar bear and brown bear mounted standing up at their full height and lots of other animals in the lobby and offices. He also had a game farm that included live zebras, camels, llama, prairie dogs, and others. We would often drive through it when we had house guests, and I believe school groups would also tour. The Irvings built a house in the middle of the farm when they retired. [Debbie, 06/28/2009]

Large collection of various wild animals (taxidermy) bear, rhino, all kinds of hoofed animals, even a giraffe head -- a lot more than I can remember. This fills the large lobby of Irving Materials Inc.'s corporate office building (a building material company). I would assume that the company founder was at one time a big game hunter. [Brian S. Wilkinson, 08/28/2007]