Window Treatment in Greentree at Fort Harrison, Lawrence

Local Window Treatment Experience in Greentree at Fort Harrison

How Greentree at Fort Harrison was built

Greentree is turn of the-2000s production traditional on cleared former Army land. The Marion County platted subdivision layer records five phases and nothing about who built them, so we won't name a builder. What the recording dates do tell you is the pace: 2 March 2001 to 12 February 2002 covers every phase, which means the community went up under one specification rather than accumulating through changing product cycles. The site history explains the rest. There was no pre existing street grid to work around and no older housing to infill, because the Army held this ground until the fort closed under the 1991 BRAC round.

Per phase lot counts aren't retrievable. The county's subdivision layer carries plat names and recording dates, not lots, so anyone quoting you a home count for Greentree is estimating. Story mix isn't published either. A 2001 two story production plan in this market typically runs 16 to 24 openings, and the larger plans of that era carried a two story great room as standard, so the glass area is concentrated in one or two rooms rather than spread evenly across the house. Because a share of Greentree lots back onto Fort Harrison State Park or open ground rather than onto other houses, the rear elevations see more sky than a typical interior lot does.

One plan set, repeated: what that means for a measure

Uniformity is the asset here and we use it. When five phases are recorded inside eleven months, a plan repeats across the community with real fidelity, so a whole house order at Greentree carries fewer surprises than the same order in a plat built out over a decade. It also means a mistake repeats. If the transom over the front facing window measures 62 inches at the springline on your elevation, it very likely measures the same on your neighbor's, which is useful for planning and dangerous as an excuse to skip the tape. We still measure your house, opening by opening.

Two specific problems follow. The two story foyer window and the great room glass put a lot of area in one place, and a single roller wide enough to cover it will show tube deflection unless the tube diameter is sized for the span or the opening is split into two shades. And a half round transom is not a shade opening. Nothing operable fits a curve at a sane price. The usual answers are a fixed arch panel in a shutter frame, or leaving it bare and treating the rectangular window beneath it, which is what most Greentree owners choose once they see both numbers.

Products that suit a 2001 Greentree plan

Greentree gets a different answer from the 1908 buildings at Lawton Loop for one reason: uniform, close to square, drywall return openings reward volume products ordered in matched sets, while the fort rewards individually templated work. The energy case is real too. DOE and ORNL testing found cellular shades saved up to 20 percent of heating energy and up to 15 percent of total heating and cooling energy against a bare window, and Indianapolis in IECC Climate Zone 5A carries both loads, with a January average high of 36.1F and a July average high of 85.2F. National pricing on custom shades runs $250 to $2,600 per window against $60 to $600 for stock.

Greentree's setting on the former post

Greentree sits on former Fort Benjamin Harrison land in northwest Lawrence, alongside Harrison Ridge and Fort Harrison State Park. The park covers 1,700 acres, opened in 1996 on land transferred after the 1991 BRAC closure, and draws close to a million visitors a year. The county's subdivision layer records the five Greentree phase names and their dates without street names, so there's no verified street list to publish for this community and we won't invent one to fill the space. Schools run through the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, the ninth largest district in Indiana, with Belzer or Craig at the middle level.

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