Harrison Park and Harrison by the Park, Lawrence Window Treatment

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Two Harrisons, 1973 and 2004

Harrison Park was recorded 4 January 1973 and corrected 15 May 1975, which places it in the tail of the era that built 31.9 percent of Lawrence housing, 6,514 units, between 1940 and 1979. The housing is ranch and split level dominant. A split gives you two different sill heights on the same elevation and a lower level with half height openings, which is a specific measuring and mounting problem rather than a style note. No builder is published for either plat, and neither are lot counts, so a home count for Harrison Park is an estimate wherever you read one.

Harrison by the Park was recorded 16 October 2004 and is two story dominant, part of the 26.3 percent of Lawrence housing built in 2000 or later. Its openings are drywall returns with no applied casing, and the era brought the transom over the front facing window and the two story foyer window as standard equipment. Neither plat has a published price band. The only sourced figure for Lawrence is the citywide ACS median home value of $230,100, which sits at 0.79 times the Indianapolis metro median of $291,400 and conceals a wide internal spread that these two plats illustrate perfectly.

Shallow tracks in 1973, drywall returns in 2004

Start with Harrison Park, because it's the harder half. The 1970s aluminum horizontal sliders here carry an integral track that projects into the opening, so the depth you measure is not the depth you can use. A cellular headrail or a shutter frame that would clear a nominal opening will foul that track. The workable answers are a shallow profile inside mount where the numbers genuinely allow it, or an outside mount onto the thin applied casing these houses have, or onto the wall above it. Applied casing is at least something to fasten to, which is more than a 2004 drywall return offers.

Then the lower level. Half height openings that are wider than they are tall behave differently from anything upstairs: a blind's stack sits in a bigger share of a short opening, a roller tube spanning a wide short window can deflect, and a cellular's headrail can take a fifth of the visible height. On the Harrison by the Park side the problem inverts. Openings are close to square at twenty two years, depth is workable, and the awkward glass is high rather than short: two story foyer glass and a transom above the front window. Same name family, opposite specification.

Different picks for each side of the name

You can't specify Harrison Park and Harrison by the Park the same way, and any quote that does was written from a street name rather than a plat date. The 1973 side needs products that tolerate shallow usable depth, thin applied casing and openings that measure differently at three points. The 2004 side needs products that handle height and shape in openings that are already square. National ranges apply to both: shutters $175 to $800 per window, custom shades $250 to $2,600, motorized $300 to $1,500 installed. Fabrication runs 2 to 5 weeks, and IC 24-5-11 requires a written contract on any residential job over $150.

Where the two Harrisons sit

Both plats sit near Fort Harrison State Park in northern Lawrence, the 1,700-acre park established in 1996 on land transferred after the fort closed under the 1991 BRAC round. Harrison Park predates that closure by eighteen years, so the houses recorded in 1973 were built looking at a working Army post rather than at a park. No verified street list exists for either plat in the county sources behind this page, and we won't fill that gap with invented names. 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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