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Thirty five contributing buildings on Main and Indiana Streets

This is a commercial and mixed use district rather than a residential one. The count that exists is 35 contributing buildings and one contributing object, and the residential component sits upstairs as apartments and offices over ground floor retail instead of as detached houses. Lots follow the original 1824 and 1825 town plat, 20 acres divided into parcels of 16 lots, fronting straight onto brick sidewalks with no setback. No price band applies to a district like this. Upper floor unit sizes aren't published anywhere we could reach, so square footage downtown gets measured rather than quoted. The town wide figures are what exist: a $206,400 median owner occupied home value and a $68,983 median household income.

No single developer built any of this. The district went up over about 80 years of incremental work by individual owners and local builders, which is why an Italianate front can sit beside Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, Commercial Style and Craftsman work rather than repeating one elevation. Compare that with Grand Oaks, where Taylor Morrison and Pyatt Builders repeat a handful of plans. Downtown, two adjacent buildings can be fifty years and two styles apart, and the openings prove it at the party wall: head heights change, reveal depths change, head shapes go from square to segmental to arched. Worth knowing too that Mooresville has no residential historic district at all, unlike Shelbyville and Greenwood, so the old houses around the core carry no designation and no documentation.

Display glass at grade, deep masonry reveals overhead

Count these buildings by floor, because the floors behave differently. At grade you're looking at a full width display bay with a transom band over it, which puts the heat and the merchandise on the same elevation. Above it sit regular upper floor openings, and on the Italianate and Gothic Revival fronts those heads go arched or segmental rather than square. The Craftsman influenced structures in the district add deep front porches, and a porch that deep changes the openness answer for the glass behind it, because the load arriving at that window has already been cut before it gets there. None of this is residential in the ordinary sense, so a room by room count doesn't apply.

Then there's age and movement. These are masonry buildings between roughly 75 and 180 years old, and the district took an EF1 tornado in April 2020. An opening that old measures differently at the head than at the sill, and nothing repeats, not even along one front. So a three point measure on width and a three point measure on height are the floor here, with head shape recorded separately per opening, because a shaped panel or an arch mounted rod is a different order line from a rectangle. We build to the smallest of the three numbers. Copying the dimension from the opening next door is how a $900 shade ends up in a closet.

What we specify for a building in the Mooresville Commercial Historic District

A building in this district is really two jobs at one address: a display level that sells with light, and upper floors that are offices or apartments needing privacy after dark. We quote them separately. Pricing has to come from national ranges, because no published window covering pricing for Mooresville was located at all: custom treatments $250 to $2,600 per window, shutters $175 to $800, drapery $300 to $4,000, retractable awnings $1,000 to $6,000 installed. Custom fabrication runs 2 to 5 weeks from the approved order. The Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act (IC 24-5-11) requires a written contract with scope, dates and total price on residential work over $150, and we're insured and insured.

Main and Indiana Streets

The district holds the crossing of Main and Indiana Streets in Brown Township, Morgan County, between White Lick Creek and its East Fork. The Conduitt Building dates to 1870, the Taggart Building to 1896, the Redmen Lodge Building to 1904 and the Mooresville Carnegie Library to 1916. Two more National Register listings sit close by: the Friends Academy Building of 1861, now a history museum, and the Mooresville Gymnasium. Brick sidewalks run the length of the core. Newby Memorial Elementary and Northwood Elementary serve the area, feeding Paul Hadley Middle School, named for the Mooresville watercolorist who designed Indiana's state flag in 1916, and then Mooresville High School.

Design review downtown: what the National Register listing actually requires

Nothing restricts you, on the evidence available. No mandatory design review over private property was identified for the Mooresville Commercial Historic District, and National Register listing on its own doesn't control what a private owner does with private money. No local preservation ordinance for Mooresville was located, and no district level rule on window coverings was found either. Here's the caveat we'd rather state than bury: that's an unconfirmed absence, not a proven one. Mooresville's own 2023 planning document returns 'Category is not correct' instead of opening, and the 2009 version does the same, so the town's language about its districts couldn't be read. Confirm with the town before an awning goes onto a Main Street front.

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