Window Treatment Serving Fall Creek Place

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More than 400 houses on a nineteenth century grid

The area was developed in the late nineteenth century as a neighborhood of substantial homes with Victorian architecture, deteriorated badly through the 1980s and 1990s, and was rebuilt over roughly a decade from 1998. What stands today is more than 400 homes in Victorian era and period design along tree lined streets, on the original urban lots. The houses are predominantly two and two and a half story period design construction, and a typical one carries roughly 16 to 26 openings by our reading of that house type.

One detail from the program has a direct effect on our work: numerous private builders worked under a single set of design standards rather than one production builder doing the lot. Elevations match up and down a street while the specifications behind them don't necessarily. Adjacent houses can carry different window products and different casing details under matching facades, which means we never assume the neighbor's measurements or the neighbor's mounting solution transfers to yours. The houses are now roughly 16 to 27 years old, built on ground that carried nineteenth century buildings before them, so they're square by construction with two decades of settlement on old fill.

Historic shapes, modern openings

The shapes read historic and the openings behave modern, and that combination is unusual enough to be worth planning around. Tall narrow proportions with transoms above entries and bay projections mean sizes that don't line up with anything off a shelf, so custom fabrication isn't a preference here, it's the only route to a proper fit. At the same time the openings are drywall returned or cased to a modern specification with generous depth, so inside mounts are usually available and the mounting surface is predictable. That's a better starting point than any pre war house in this city offers.

The variable is which builder did your house. Depth should be generous and consistent within one house and can differ from the house next door, so we confirm depth at the stop against the specific cassette or headrail rather than working from a neighborhood rule. On exposure, the neighborhood is a rectangle on the cardinal grid between 22nd Street and Fall Creek, east of Pennsylvania Street and west of College Avenue, so the north south streets carry east and west fronts and one side of each takes the low afternoon sun. The tree planting went in with the $15 million infrastructure work from 1998, so the canopy is about twenty five years old and doesn't yet shade the way century old planting does a few blocks south.

What we specify in Fall Creek Place

Because the openings are modern and the proportions are historic, this is one of the easier neighborhoods to get a clean result in, and the decisions are mostly aesthetic rather than structural. The young canopy pushes solar control up the priority list on west facing rooms, more than it would three blocks south under mature trees. And since there's no certificate requirement here, exterior product is genuinely on the table on a street that looks like it shouldn't allow it.

Streets, landmarks and schools

The neighborhood runs two miles north of downtown between 22nd Street and Fall Creek, east of Pennsylvania Street and west of College Avenue, with North Delaware Street, North Alabama Street, Talbott Street and East 25th Street inside it. Fall Creek and the Fall Creek Parkway form the northern edge, and the retail nodes built under the redevelopment program give the streets a center. The Monon Trail and the Harrison Center are nearby. Herron-Morton Place sits immediately south across 22nd Street and the Old Northside beyond that, which makes three consecutive neighborhoods, two of them under commission review and one not. Schools are Indianapolis Public Schools by address.

Design standards during construction, and an open question after

The Home Ownership Zone program imposed design standards while the houses were being built, which is why the elevations are as consistent as they are. Whether any ongoing architectural control survived the program was not established, and given how design led the redevelopment was it's plausible that something does. We didn't find a recorded declaration or a covenant text for this neighborhood and we won't describe a rule we haven't read. The public side is settled: there's no commission district here, so no certificate of appropriateness applies to interior or exterior work. If you hold documents from your purchase that mention architectural review or exterior appearance, bring them to the measure and we'll write the specification to them. If you don't, one call to your neighborhood organization before ordering exterior product costs nothing and heads off a disagreement later.

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