Crows Nest, Indianapolis Window Treatment

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Thirty seven petitioners, 2 to 20 acre estates, four 1950s plats

This is the lowest residential density documented anywhere in Marion County. Private estates of 2 to 20 acres and greater ran along the White River bluff by the late 1920s, and the 1954 to 1959 plats subdivided some of that ground into smaller lots without changing the town's boundaries. The incorporation story explains the shape of the place: thirty seven residents petitioned in 1927, the commissioners approved that August, and the town has retained its own elected council ever since, including through the 1970 Unigov consolidation that folded most of the county into Indianapolis.

The pre war stock is predominantly two and three story estate housing built between 1905 and 1950. The 1950s plats added mid century houses on the subdivided ground further from the bluff. There's also a second, separate town immediately next door: North Crows Nest was established in 1934, remains independent of both Crows Nest and Indianapolis, and has its own National Register district recorded in the city's inventory as North Crow's Nest Historic District. Two adjacent incorporated towns with nearly the same name, neither of them part of Indianapolis, is the sort of thing worth confirming before anyone books a measure.

Bluff ground, stone reveals and 45 openings that don't repeat

The estate houses are the most demanding stock we work on in this county. Deep masonry reveals on the stone and brick elevations give generous mounting depth, and then a leaded inward opening unit two rooms away removes the inside mount option entirely regardless of depth. Dormers set into steep chateau pitches have sloping reveals with no vertical face. Round and segmental heads need templating rather than measuring. And because two named practices designed houses individually here, there's no house wide rule that survives contact with the building. We build a written schedule per opening and quote from that.

The ground matters too, which isn't something we say often. These houses sit on a river bluff rather than on flat Marion County clay, and bluff ground moves differently, so the settlement pattern over 76 to 121 years isn't the one you'd predict from era alone. A bluff top lot facing the river has an open eastern aspect falling away to water with nothing in the way, which produces unusual morning light and reflected glare off the surface. The 1954 to 1959 houses sit further back from the bluff, are 67 to 72 years old, and have shallow frame jambs with wide front openings.

What we specify most in Crows Nest

No median sale price was published for the town separately when we last looked, and on estates of 2 to 20 acres a median would tell you very little anyway. What drives the number is the schedule: 28 to 45 openings on a pre war house, a high proportion of them shaped, leaded, inward opening or out of reach, against 12 to 20 straightforward openings on a 1950s plat. National figures put drapery at roughly $300 to $4,000 a window, motorized product $300 to $1,500 installed and custom shades $250 to $2,600.

Getting around Crows Nest

The town sits south of Kessler Boulevard, west of the White River and east of Lieber Road, with boundaries unchanged since 1927. Golden Hill lies south across the canal and Butler-Tarkington to the southeast. North Crows Nest, a separate town established in 1934, adjoins. Street names inside the town weren't available in the parcel data we could reach, so we work from addresses rather than assuming a layout. MSD Washington Township serves the town, with North Central High School taking these addresses. The Woodstock Club is nearby, and the bluff itself is the geographic feature everything here is organized around.

Ask the town, not the city

Crows Nest has its own elected council and its own ordinances, and that's the only place a restriction on exterior work could come from here. IHPC has no jurisdiction in the town, so the certificate of appropriateness requirement in IC 36-7-11.1-9(a) doesn't apply, and the Town of Crows Nest Historic District's National Register listing from 2000 restricts nothing on its own for an owner spending private money, which is the position Indiana Landmarks states for every nationally listed property in the state. What we could not establish is whether the town exercises any architectural control through its own ordinances. That question wasn't answered in anything we could read, and it isn't a question the city can answer for you. Before ordering an awning or an exterior shade here, ask the town clerk. Interior blinds, shades, shutters and drapery aren't the sort of thing a municipal design ordinance reaches in any case.

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