Posted in: WTH WTH: You Haven’t Heard?

It’s fairly common throughout the city–houses that have seen better times–and of course, there are as many reasons as houses. A small selection of such homes have been featured in this space for just shy...

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Posted in: Sunday Prayers Sunday Prayers: Being an Urban Pioneer, Being the Change

Future home buyer Aaron visits a North Square property in need of rehabilitation. Aaron, who is interested in purchasing and reviving a vacant home, has turned to Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP) for aid in...

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Posted in: Sunday Prayers Sunday Prayers: 2015 N. Senate Ave.

 We meet again, plywood. Once more you grace the windows of an aged Victorian. Though you mark a property as uninhabited, you blend into the beige paint. I hardly notice you. No, I pay heed...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites FF- Why Old Neighborhoods Are Better: Potential Magic

Kimball & Tess Lloyd-Jones, Woodruff Place, 2012 The coincidental sometimes seems—in retrospect—slightly magical. You’ve surely met a person or visited a place unexpectedly that went on to change the trajectory of your life. Isn’t that...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Helping Hands for Historic Homes

Ever thought you’d love to live in an historic home, except…it’s old, it’s drafty, it needs a lot of maintenance? Like the rest of us, existing architecture isn’t getting any younger, but there is something...

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