Window Treatment in Bates-Hendricks and Nearby Indianapolis Streets

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1872 fabric, 2010s money, and a lot of duplexes

The oldest fabric here is about 1830, in the first section of the Bates-Hendricks House, and the neighborhood around it was developed from 1872. The house is Federal in its original portion and Italianate in its expansion, and it carries a sixty foot tower on its east exposure, which is a scale nothing else in the neighborhood matches. The residential stock around it is bungalow, Dutch Colonial, cottage and modern builds with asymmetrical designs, on compact lots along a near south side grid with tree lined esplanades.

Duplexes matter more here than in most neighborhoods and they're named in the housing description rather than being an inference. A duplex is two window schedules inside one building envelope, frequently with two separate owners and two separate histories of replacement and repair, so one half can have deep original casing and the other half almost none. We measure and quote each unit as its own job even when the building is one address on a map. Significant renovation has run since 2010, and the neighborhood was featured on the television program Good Bones, which is why so much of the stock has been opened up and reworked internally in the last fifteen years.

Gambrel dormers, banded groupings, and two histories per building

Counts run about 14 to 22 openings on a Dutch Colonial, 12 to 18 on a bungalow, 8 to 14 on a cottage and 12 to 20 on modern infill, with a duplex carrying two independent schedules in one envelope. Those are our figures from the recorded house types. The Dutch Colonials are the awkward ones: a gambrel roof puts openings into a sloping plane with no vertical reveal to work with, so the dormer cheek and the roof take the depth an inside mount needs. The bungalows bring banded groupings under broad eaves where the mullions between units are too narrow for a bracket to land.

The nineteenth and early twentieth century frame stock has real wood jambs, applied casing and counterweight pockets in the frame, and much of it has been through a rehabilitation that moved trim. New construction next door has drywall returns and no applied casing at all. That means squareness varies by address rather than by block: the historic stock is out of square throughout and the post-2010 infill is square. Compact lots on a cardinal grid also mean houses shade each other more than they would on a suburban lot, so the room that suffers is usually the one facing the street rather than the one facing a neighbor's wall.

What we specify in Bates-Hendricks

Two things drive the specification here. Compact lots on a grid mean front room privacy is a genuine daily problem, not a theoretical one, and the pavement is close to the glass. And because nothing needs a certificate, exterior product is available on a Victorian era street, which is the option most owners of houses this age in this city can't take. Budgets here sit in the middle of the city rather than at the top, so we're candid about where the money does most work.

Streets, landmarks and schools

This is the near south side, west of Fountain Square and north of Garfield Park, and residents describe getting around by the Pleasant Run Trail, the bike lanes and the bus routes rather than by an interstate. South New Jersey Street carries the Bates-Hendricks House at 1526, and South East Street, Lincoln Street, Sanders Street, Terrace Avenue and Norwood Street are the addresses we work most. Claus' German Sausage and Meats and Indy All Night are the local landmarks people use. Schools are Indianapolis Public Schools, with Center for Inquiry School 2 serving elementary and middle grades, Sidener Academy as a middle option, and Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School.

No association, no commission, no certificate

There's no mandatory homeowners association here and no architectural review of any kind. Bates-Hendricks does not appear in the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission's map layer, and no Bates-Hendricks district appears in the city's historic sites inventory. The Bates-Hendricks House at 1526 South New Jersey Street is individually listed on the National Register, which restricts nothing for a private owner spending private money and restricts nothing for anyone else's house. So the answer to what you're allowed to hang, inside or out, is that nobody is going to review it. That's the opposite of the position four miles northeast in Woodruff Place, which the same developer laid out in the same year. If you're in a duplex with a shared exterior, your co owner is the only party whose agreement is worth having in writing.

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