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Seventy six years of platting on alley served lots

Garfield named residential platting runs from Holliday's Garfield Park Addition on 5 August 1883 through Bridges & Graves South Garfield Addition on 28 May 1959, ten recorded plats in all. Metzger's came on 20 October 1895, Bohne's on 15 January 1910, St Catherine on 29 December 1910 and Hervey's on 18 February 1911, then Garfield Heights on 9 March 1921, Garfield Plaza on 11 October 1940 and Garfield Terrace on 5 April 1948, with a Garfield Park Apartments Subdivision following on 28 April 2017. The timing tracks transport: the first streetcar reached the area in 1895 and most neighborhood streets were laid out in the early 1900s.

The lot pattern is the narrow deep alley served city lot, with houses closely spaced on vertical lots, small front yards and backyard garages reached from the alleys. Housing runs from the 1842 Yoke farmhouse, the oldest surviving fabric, to twentieth century bungalows and duplexes. Doubles and duplexes are common here in a way they aren't in most neighborhoods of this age. The neighborhood peaked at 13,000 residents in 1962 and now holds around 5,227, having lost more than half its population while keeping its houses, through the Madison Avenue Expressway in 1958 and the completion of I-65 in 1975.

Dormer runs, mirrored duplexes and a west facing park

A Craftsman bungalow on the 1910 to 1925 blocks runs roughly 12 to 18 openings, an American Foursquare on the older additions 16 to 24, a Dutch Colonial Revival 14 to 20 and a Victorian cottage 10 to 16. A double or duplex runs 8 to 14 per unit with the two halves mirrored, which means the same product goes in twice at mirrored handing and mirrored roll direction, and getting that wrong is visible from the street. The stock is almost entirely pre-1940 frame and brick with real wood jambs, applied casing and counterweight pockets, and storm panels still on many houses.

Squareness here has a local cause on top of the usual one. The bulk of the housing is 101 to 116 years old and the oldest fabric is 184, and the neighborhood sits at the confluence of Pleasant Run and Bean Creek on alluvial ground that settles differently from the clay under the north side. On top of that, two interstate corridors were driven through and past the neighborhood, the Madison Avenue Expressway in 1958 and I-65 completed in 1975, which is decades of construction vibration alongside natural settlement. Assume out of square, run a diagonal on every opening, and expect the head and the sill to differ.

What we specify in Garfield Park

This is the value end of the city and the sensible approach reflects it without treating it as a lesser job. The median sale price is $193,000 with a median household income of $59,248, so the useful advice is where to concentrate a real budget rather than how to spread a large one. That usually means solving the west facing rooms properly, doing the street facing rooms well because they're seen, and specifying durable rather than fashionable through the rest. Nothing needs anybody's approval, which puts the outside the glass options genuinely on the table.

Streets, landmarks and schools

The neighborhood is bounded by Beecher Street, I-65, Troy Avenue and East Street and Madison Avenue, about four miles from downtown and south of Fountain Square, at the confluence of Pleasant Run and Bean Creek. Shelby Street is the commercial spine and runs north into Fountain Square, and Madison Avenue and I-65 are how residents describe getting downtown. The park is bounded by Raymond Street on the north, South Garfield Drive, East Garfield Drive and Shelby Street on the east, Southern Avenue on the south and the Louisville and Indiana Railroad tracks on the west. Bates-Hendricks lies northwest. Schools are Indianapolis Public Schools by address, with public charter K-8 options and private options including Trinity Christian School and Calvary Christian School.

No association, no committee, no certificate

There's no homeowners association here, no architectural control committee and no certificate of appropriateness requirement. This is a nineteenth and early twentieth century city neighborhood on a public street grid, and a homeowner spending private money faces no design review from anybody. The park's National Register listing of 28 March 2003 covers the 128 acres and the boulevard system it belongs to, not the surrounding residential blocks, and Indiana Landmarks is explicit that listing alone changes nothing where private funds are used. The one place to take care is work on or immediately adjoining the park itself, which is listed public property in a boulevard system, but that's a public property question rather than a homeowner one.

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