National Register of Historic Places
Hedden's Grove Historic District
New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana
The record
- Listed
- December 27, 2010
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 1600 Blocks of Hedden Park and Hedden Court, 2410-2418 Charlestown Rd, New Albany
- County
- Floyd
- State
- Indiana
- Contributing resources
- 43 buildings, 2 structures
- Coordinates
- 38.30896, -85.80669
- Reference number
- 10001076
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The story
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Hedden's Grove Historic District, listed in the National Register in 2010, is a historic district in New Albany, Floyd County, along Hedden Park, Hedden Court and Charlestown Road. Its 43 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures include houses built in Craftsman Bungalow, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival and Ranch styles.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture and community planning and development. Its period of significance runs from 1925 to 1959; within that span, the entrance was built in 1926, soon after a house there was completed.
Physical character
Walls are brick, stucco and limestone on concrete foundations under asphalt roofs, and the bungalow and Craftsman houses show low hipped roofs with eaves and open front porches on brick piers. Houses were later altered: a chicken house was converted to a residence in 1957, wings were added in the 1970s and 1980s, and one home was completely reworked after an electrical fire in 2002.
Historical context
David Hedden arrived in Floyd County in 1820 and had bought the district's 47-acre site by 1834, replatted as Hedden Park in 1925. Arthur Schoo conceived five Craftsman Bungalows along Charlestown Road in 1925, and stone entrance gates declared Hedden Park ready for homeowners by 1926. Roughly a dozen houses were built between 1925 and 1930, and fourteen went up after World War II between 1946 and 1953.