National Register of Historic Places
North Irvington Gardens Historic District
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
The record
- Listed
- June 27, 2008
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Roughly bounded by 11th, 10th, Pleasant Run Golf Course, Arlington Ave, Pleasant Run Pkwy N Drive, Ritter Ave, Indianapolis
- County
- Marion
- State
- Indiana
- Period of significance
- 1850 to 1974
- Contributing resources
- 1394 buildings, 1 site
- Coordinates
- 39.78084, -86.07123
- Reference number
- 08000557
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The story
Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com
The North Irvington Gardens Historic District is a residential district in Indianapolis, Marion County, listed in the National Register in 2008. It is roughly bounded by 10th and 11th Streets, the Pleasant Run Golf Course, Arlington Avenue, Pleasant Run Parkway North Drive and Ritter Avenue. It covers 266 acres and includes 1,394 contributing buildings and one contributing site. The oldest building dates to 1863, and construction continued as late as 1948-1950.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A, B and C, with local-level significance in community planning and development, architecture and literature. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1863 to 1950, spanning a house built in 1863 to construction dated 1948-1950.
Physical character
Walls include weatherboard, brick, stucco, wood siding, stone veneer and asbestos shingle over concrete foundations, with some later covered in vinyl or aluminum siding. Styles range from the American Four Square to Italianate/Craftsman, Late Gothic Revival and Commercial, and one house was resided in brick in 1970.
Historical context
The Ellenberger family had bought eighty acres in 1858, and the city bought the Ellenberger Park site in 1911. Brown's bank platted the Woodford Subdivision in 1917, and a 1909 plan by George Edward Kessler proposed the parkway along Pleasant Run. The Architect's Small House Service Bureau, organized in 1921, supplied designs for some houses here before disbanding in 1942.