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Housing in the Plainfield Historic District: 174 contributing buildings, 1840 to 1959

This district isn't a subdivision and it doesn't behave like one. The 174 contributing buildings include commercial blocks, civic buildings and houses, so there's no house count to quote and none is published. The lot pattern splits as well: zero lot line commercial frontage along the National Road business blocks, then individual pre war residential lots on the surrounding streets, with no published acreage for either. No separate price band is reported for the district. What is sourced is the run of dates, and the dates are the useful part. Fisher's Tavern about 1840, the Ezra Cox House about 1861 to 1863, Bly Bros. Dry Goods about 1880, the Knights of Pythias Building about 1900, the First National Bank of Plainfield in 1903.

Residential blocks run one and two stories. The commercial blocks along the National Road frontage run two and three. Documented styles for the district are Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Craftsman bungalow, plus late nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial block work. Home size range isn't sourced, and after 120 years of one off construction a published average wouldn't tell you much anyway. Practically that means a full square check and a three point measure at every opening, and a written scope before anything gets ordered. Indiana's Home Improvement Contract Act, IC 24-5-11, requires a written contract carrying the scope and the total price on any residential job over $150.

Measuring windows in the Plainfield Historic District: deep reveals that aren't parallel

Start with the good news. This district has the most generous inside mount depth anywhere in the three Hendricks County suburbs. Load bearing masonry on the commercial blocks and heavy pre war casing on the houses give you real reveal, so depth almost never rules out an inside mount here. The catch is that the reveal is rarely parallel. Between 65 and 185 years of settlement means an opening measures differently at head, middle and sill, and frequently differently on the left jamb than on the right jamb of the same window. Three point measures aren't advisable in this district. They're mandatory. We build to the smallest of the three readings, which is why a hard treatment can show a visible taper against old trim.

Then the shapes, and this is the full pre war catalog: Queen Anne polygonal bays and towers with curved or stained glass, Italianate segmental arched heads, Gothic Revival pointed heads, Craftsman groupings under wide trim, storefront transom bands and entry transoms. Not one of those is a catalog size. Aspect ratio matters more here than anywhere else in Plainfield, because Lutron publishes a 3/4 inch per side inside mount light gap on its Roller 20/64 and notes that shades 120 inches and taller, or running 4:1 height to width, get larger gaps than that. Tall narrow pre war openings hit that ratio routinely. And there's no two story great room glass in this district at all. That volume postdates the newest contributing building by half a century.

What we specify in the Plainfield Historic District

Nothing here gets a package. A Greek Revival house on Center Street, an 1891 Queen Anne and the ground floor of a commercial block on Main Street are three different jobs, and the only thing they share is that the openings have moved. Two rules hold across all of them: build to the smallest of three readings, and settle stack position before the order rather than at the install. National ranges apply, since no installed pricing is published anywhere for Indianapolis. Custom treatments run $250 to $2,600 per window and shutters $175 to $800 per window. Fabrication takes 2 to 5 weeks. We're insured and insured, and every job over $150 gets a written contract under IC 24-5-11.

Main Street, Center Street and the buildings that give the district its address

The district straddles the National Road at the center of Plainfield, with the half acre brick subdivisions of Guilford Township well to the north and east and the newer attached product further northeast toward Township Line Road. Main Street and Center Street are the two street names that surface in a retrievable source for the district itself, so those are the two we list. The landmark buildings do the navigating instead: the Carnegie Library from 1912, the Prewitt Theater from 1927, the Plainfield Methodist Episcopal Church from 1891, the Mansion House Hotel from 1874. Schooling runs through Plainfield Community School Corporation, whose high school teams are the Quakers, with Central Elementary as the in town school.

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