Questions about renting the hall

No. We run a full service bar and have enough package options to cover most requests. Outside alcohol is not permitted anywhere on the property, including the parking lot, and this is the one rule we enforce strictly. You can choose a cash bar, run a tab up to a limit you set, or prepay an open bar at $20 a head for beer and wine or $30 a head for beer, wine and liquor.

Yes, and most people do. We keep no preferred caterer list and take no commission from anyone. There is no food or beverage minimum on any room on any day.

The one requirement is that your caterer prepares the food at their own facility and brings it ready to serve. Our kitchen is a staging area for holding and plating rather than a working kitchen, so it is not somewhere to cook a meal for three hundred. Whoever caters is expected to leave the kitchen as they found it.

The building is available from 9am, and everyone needs to be out by midnight. A full day rental is up to twelve hours inside that window, so something like 11am until 11pm is typical.

Our office and tour hours are 9am to 6:30pm, seven days a week. Those are the hours to reach us by phone, not the hours you can hold an event.

Two options: a six hour block or a twelve hour block. We can occasionally look at modifications, but it is unlikely, so plan around one of the two.

Yes. Think of it this way: your rental time starts when you walk in the door and ends when the last person leaves. Decorating, catering set up, the event itself and clearing up all happen inside your block, so build that into the length you choose.

Grand Hall: $4,800 for twelve hours on a Saturday or $3,100 for six; $3,600 or $2,400 Sunday through Friday. Council Room: $1,400 or $900 on a Saturday; $1,100 or $750 Sunday through Friday. Bar Lounge: $800 or $500 on a Saturday; $600 or $450 Sunday through Friday. All three together: $5,800 or $3,600 on a Saturday; $4,400 or $2,800 Sunday through Friday.

The full rate sheet is here, including bar packages, add ons and the deposit schedule.

Setting up tables, chairs and decorations is yours by default. If you would rather not, we will set the room for you: $300 for the Grand Hall or $150 for the Council Room. The Bar Lounge comes already furnished for fifty, so there is nothing to do down there.

Putting the tables and chairs away afterwards is ours either way, whether you set up yourself or paid us to.

Clear the tables of trash, leave the room as clean as you can reasonably manage, and take your decorations home with you the same night.

You do not need to stack chairs or move tables. Putting the furniture away is our job, and it happens whether or not you paid us to set up. Tell a member of staff straight away if anything spills, so we can deal with it while it is still easy.

The reason we spell this out is the damage deposit: excessive mess or debris left behind is one of the few things that can affect whether it comes back in full.

Absolutely. We just ask for no confetti, because it gets into hundred year old floorboards and never fully comes out.

Also not permitted: nails, staples, thumb tacks, glitter, and aggressive adhesives including duct, masking and mounting tape. No mylar or foil balloons. Candles are fine with prior approval. All decorations should be approved before you set up, which is usually a short conversation. Everything you bring in goes home with you the night of the event.

No. Tables and chairs are included with the room, but linens and covers are not. Most people hire them from a third party, and any of the local event rental companies will deliver here.

It is $300 or twenty five percent of the rental cost, whichever is greater. Paying it is what actually locks your date into our calendar and reserves the space.

It is refundable within thirty days of your event provided the space is left in good order and there is no damage. It is not refunded if you cancel or reschedule, at any point.

Fifty percent of the balance is due ninety days before your event. If you book inside ninety days, that fifty percent is due at booking. The remaining balance is due fourteen days before.

No payments are refunded if an event is cancelled within ninety days of the date. If a payment is missed we may release the date to someone else, so talk to us early if something changes. We can look at alternative payment arrangements case by case.

Sixty five spots on our own lot, plus street parking around the Old Northside. If you rent all three rooms you get exclusive use of the lot.

For a four hundred person event, sixty five spots will not cover everyone, so it is worth mentioning street parking to your guests in advance.

The main floor is, the lower level is not. The Grand Hall is wheelchair accessible and so are the main floor restrooms. There is no elevator in the building, so the Council Room and the Bar Lounge on the lower level are not accessible, and there are no accessible restrooms down there.

If accessibility matters for anyone on your guest list, please call before you book so we can plan around it or steer you to the right room. Full notes here.

For an open bar you can request more or less any beer or wine within reason. Tell us what you want and we will go and get it so it is ready at your event.

Sometimes, subject to approval and availability. There are three ways it can work: a separate six or twelve hour booking; an hourly rental the night before with a three hour minimum at $400 an hour for the Grand Hall, $200 for the Council Room or $100 for the Bar Lounge; or shifting some of your existing hours to the day before for drop off and set up.

None of these is guaranteed, because we may already have another party in the room. Anything left in the building overnight is left at your own risk.

Yes, and plenty of couples do. The usual approach is a ceremony at one end of the Grand Hall, drinks at the bar or downstairs in the lounge while the room is turned around, then dinner in the same space. Booking all three rooms turns the Bar Lounge into the after party and gives you the parking lot to yourselves.

Not inside the building. There are receptacles outside the main entrance.

Possibly. At our discretion we may ask you to provide proof of insurance, and to name the Knights of Columbus Home Association of Indianapolis as an additional insured, no later than fourteen days before your event. If that is going to apply to your booking we will tell you well in advance, not at the last minute.

Possibly. We may let other rooms concurrently with yours, and your rental covers the rooms named in your agreement rather than the whole building. If you want the place to yourselves, book all three rooms, which also gives you exclusive use of the parking lot.