Window Treatment Work in Lanesville - the original 1849 Lawrence plat

Local Window Treatment Experience in Lanesville - the original 1849 Lawrence plat

Housing in the 1849 plat: 175 years on the same crossroads

Lanesville has been building on the same ground since 1849, and the mid century city grew straight through it rather than around it. The result is late-19th century vernacular frame next to early-20th century cottages next to post war infill, mixed one and two story, all individually built. No builder is on record for any of it, no home count or lot size is published at parcel level for the original plat, and no price band was sourced. Citywide, only 3.1 percent of Lawrence housing predates 1940, which is 623 units, and in absolute terms that is more than twice what McCordsville holds, but it is thinly spread across three separate parts of the city.

That mix is why an era shortcut fails here. A frame house from the 1890s on Kensil Street and a 1950s infill house forty feet away share a street and share no construction assumption. One has wood jambs with narrow applied casing and plaster returns; the other has shallow post war jambs and a wide front opening. Both have settled, and the older one has settled for more than a century. Nothing in this section is under design review, so alterations happened whenever owners wanted them, which is the other reason two houses of the same apparent age can present completely different openings behind the same front.

Narrow casing, storm build ups and diagonal sun in the original plat

Mounting depth is the first thing that fails here and the first thing we check. These openings have wood jambs with narrow applied casing, plaster returns in the oldest houses, and storm build ups added over the decades that sit inside the opening and take away the landing an inside mount headrail needs. A jamb that looks four inches deep from the doorway can read under an inch and a half of usable depth at the header. So the working assumption in the 1849 plat is an outside mount on the casing, with an inside mount treated as a bonus we confirm at the measure rather than a default we promise on the phone.

Squareness follows from age. This is part of the city's 623 pre-1940 units on a plat recorded in 1849, so every opening gets three point measured, width at header, middle and sill, and height at both jambs plus the center, with the order cut to the smallest controlling dimension. Where an inside mount does clear, the light gap is the disclosure that matters: Lutron publishes 3/4 inch per side on an inside mount Roller 20/64 and a factory deduction of 1/16 inch per side. On a tall narrow opening in a 130 year old frame house, an inside mount traces every bit of the wedge the settlement created. An outside mount covers it. That is the whole argument.

Products that suit a 19th century frame house on Pendleton Pike

The guiding rule in the 1849 plat is to cover the opening rather than sit inside it, because the opening is the least reliable thing in the house. That points toward outside mounts, extension brackets and top treatments that hide a settled header, and away from anything that depends on a true rectangle. Tall narrow proportions also reward soft treatments in a way that a 1990s production house does not. National ranges: custom treatments $250 to $2,600 per window, drapery $300 to $4,000 per window depending on fullness and yardage. Lead time is 2 to 5 weeks, we are insured and insured, and IC 24-5-11 requires a written contract with scope, dates and total price on residential work over $150.

Where the original plat sits, and what is around it

The 1849 plat sits on Pendleton Pike, which is US 36, in the older heart of the city between I-465 exits 40 and 42, with the former Bee Line Railroad corridor running alongside. Four streets are verified in the county's street layer for this section: Pendleton Pike, Kensil St, N Franklin Rd and E 56th St. Locals call the area the Pike, and the city's own visitor site calls it Lawrence's oldest section. Schools run through the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, the ninth largest district in Indiana, with Belzer or Craig at the middle level and Lawrence Central or Lawrence North beyond.

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