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Fifty four houses on a hundred acres, laid out by a landscape architect

Landscape architect George MacDougall planned the subdivision with winding narrow village like roads, so the fifty four houses sit at fifty four different angles rather than in rows. Three of the four boundaries are open ground or water: the Central Canal, the grounds of the Woodstock Club and Bertha Ross Park, with 36th Street closing the fourth side. That means a large share of the perimeter lots back onto open space with no neighboring house behind them, which is unusual this close to downtown and changes what the rear elevations do with early and late sun.

Building ran about twenty five years from the first houses in 1916 through the 1920s and 1930s peak. The stock is predominantly two and three story and architect designed rather than developer built, which is exactly why the district is described as quite diverse. Residents over the years have included the novelist Meredith Nicholson, William B. Stokely and Congressman Andre Carson. Everything here is between 89 and 110 years old on Marion County clay, individually built, so out of square is a certainty and no repeats should be assumed even within a single elevation.

Curved heads and inward opening units at the highest density in the city

Each of the five styles brings its own difficult condition and Golden Hill has all five inside fifty four houses. Tudor Revival brings leaded multi light units, often inward opening, set in stone or half timbered surrounds. French Eclectic brings tall narrow paired units and round or segmental headed openings, frequently with working shutters alongside. Italian Renaissance brings arched and round headed openings with deep masonry reveals and sometimes a loggia. Neo-Classical brings Palladian stair windows, fanlights and sidelights. Colonial Revival brings symmetrical multi light openings. Curved and arched heads and inward opening units occur here at the highest density anywhere in Indianapolis.

There's no modern great room glass in the district, but double height stair halls and loggias produce the same practical problem: a tall opening, out of reach, visible from two floors, needing a control method that someone will actually use. On the winding narrow roads laid out by MacDougall there's no dominant exposure, so orientation has to be established house by house and often room by room. The three open boundaries add unobstructed low angle sun on a good share of the perimeter lots. We survey the whole house before recommending anything, because a rule that holds on the front elevation may not hold on the side.

What we specify most in Golden Hill

No median sale price was published separately for Golden Hill when we last looked, so we won't guess one. What drives cost here is the schedule rather than the address: 26 to 40 openings, a high proportion of them shaped, templated or out of reach, in a house built one at a time by an architect. National figures put drapery at roughly $300 to $4,000 a window, shutters $175 to $800, motorized product $300 to $1,500 installed and custom shades $250 to $2,600. Shaped and templated items sit above the ordinary range and take longer to make.

Getting around Golden Hill

This is a small enclave on the near northwest side, bounded by the Central Canal, the Woodstock Club, Bertha Ross Park and 36th Street, tucked between Butler-Tarkington and the river. The winding narrow roads that MacDougall laid out are the reason the place feels detached from the grid around it despite being three miles from Monument Circle. Newfields sits close by and the canal towpath is the walking route people here use. Street names inside the district weren't available in the parcel data we could reach, so we work from addresses rather than assuming a street layout.

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