The Village (Zionsville's brick street core) Window Treatment in Zionsville, IN

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1854 to about 1930, with a century of infill on top

The Village core is the oldest fabric in Zionsville and it accounts for a meaningful share of the town's pre-1940 group, which is 3.7 percent of all housing units and roughly 445 of them. The oldest recognized commercial building is 75 N. Main Street, built in 1854 as a Methodist Episcopal church. Most of the 77 Century Structures date from 1880 to 1920. 65 East Cedar was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The Century Structure walking tour currently runs 45 stops with 32 more planned.

The residential blocks are small platted village lots rather than subdivision lots. The Urban R-V zoning district that covers them caps lot coverage at 35 percent, sets front setbacks of 20 to 30 feet depending on street type, requires a 5 foot minimum side yard, and caps height at 35 feet or three stories. Its minimum floor areas of 650 to 900 square feet are the smallest anywhere in Zionsville. Village residential listings still run high, with 810 W Pine Street listed at $1,075,000 and 760 W Pine Street at $699,000.

The deepest and least consistent reveals in town

The commercial blocks are load bearing masonry, which gives generous reveal depth on the upper floors and almost none at the ground floor storefront in the same building. That's a real complication: one building can need two different mounting strategies on two floors, and a specification carried from the office upstairs to the shop downstairs won't fit. The upper openings are tall and narrow with real depth to work in. The storefronts are wide, shallow and continuous, with a transom band above that reads as part of the composition rather than as a separate window.

On the residential blocks the houses carry heavy original applied casing over plaster, which sounds like plenty of depth and often isn't, because later storm panel and insert work has frequently taken one to two inches of usable reveal. The shape vocabulary is polygonal bays, tower and turret glass, curved and stained panels, grouped Craftsman openings with wide trim, and entry transoms and sidelights. Great room glass doesn't exist here at all, since the two story great room postdates this fabric by about seventy years.

What we specify on each side of the glass

Two answers here, decided by the building rather than by taste. On the residential blocks the priorities are respecting original casing, working around lost reveal depth, and getting a straight line out of an opening that has moved. On Main Street the priority is glare on merchandise at a specific hour, plus the fact that anything on the outside of a commercial building is regulated and anything inside it isn't. We say which of those you're in before quoting.

Streets, landmarks and schools

Main Street is the brick street, laid in 1911 and rebuilt in brick between 1998 and 2003 rather than paved over. The residential blocks running off it are Cedar, Pine, Hawthorne, Sycamore, Ash, which was formerly Lebanon Street, and Poplar. 75 N. Main Street from 1854 is the oldest commercial building, 65 East Cedar has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983, and the Big-4 Rail Trail runs through the district. Everything else in Zionsville describes itself by how far it sits from here.

No HOA, no historic district, and one zoning section that matters

There's no homeowners association here. The Zionsville Village Residents Association is a voluntary residents group rather than a governing body. There's also no historic district, no historic preservation commission and no certificate of appropriateness anywhere in the codified town code, current through Ordinance 2025-08 of 17 March 2025: Title III Chapter 31 names fifteen town boards and commissions without a preservation commission among them, Title XIX Chapter 190 establishes only the Board of Zoning Appeals and the Plan Commission, and Zionsville isn't on Indiana DNR's Certified Local Government list. What does apply is zoning. Section 194.062, the Urban VBD district on the Main Street commercial frontage, prohibits metal, plastic and aluminum awnings and canopies outright, permits fixed and retractable ones that complement the building's style, materials, colors and details, caps projection at six feet where combined awning width on that facade is ten feet or less and four feet where it's more, requires nine feet of clearance above finished grade with a valance no lower than eight feet, and requires all window design to be compatible with the building's style, materials, color, details and proportion. Every VBD lot is subject to a development plan filed for Plan Commission review. Section 194.052, the Urban R-V district covering the residential blocks, is purely dimensional with no design review at all. And nothing anywhere in the code reaches interior window coverings.

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