Danville Courthouse Square Historic District Window Treatment in Danville, IN

Local Window Treatment Experience in Danville Courthouse Square Historic District

The 44 contributing buildings and structures around the Hendricks County Courthouse

This is a commercial and civic district, not a residential one. The 2010 nomination counts 42 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures, and the residential component sits upstairs as apartments and offices over ground floor retail rather than as detached houses. Lots are zero lot line, fronting straight onto the sidewalk around the square, so there's no yard, no setback and no separate price band reported for the district. Danville's town wide numbers are what exist: a $363,285 median list price and a $360,000 median sale price as of 2026. Upper floor unit sizes aren't published anywhere we could reach, so square footage on the square gets measured rather than quoted.

No single developer built this. The square went up over roughly 95 years through individual merchants and local builders, which is why Italianate blocks sit next to Classical Revival, Beaux-Arts and Tudor Revival work instead of repeating one elevation. Most of what stands dates from 1865 to about 1930, though the district's period of significance runs to 1960. Compare that with Miles Farm, where six D.R. Horton plan names cover every house. On the square, two adjacent buildings can be forty years and two architectural styles apart, and the openings prove it: head heights, surround depths and head shapes all change at the party wall.

Display glass at grade, deep masonry reveals above

Count the openings by floor, because they behave differently. A two or three story block on the square typically carries 6 to 18 upper floor openings on its street elevation plus one full width display bay at grade with a transom band over it. That upper floor count is inference from the sourced building types rather than a survey, and we treat it that way. The display bay is where the money and the heat are. It's also where mounting depth runs out: a storefront frame gives you almost nothing to hold a bracket, so the shade goes outside the opening, fixed to the header, with a fascia closing the top.

Then there's age. These buildings have been standing between 66 and about 160 years on Hendricks County soil, and masonry openings of that vintage measure differently at the head than at the sill. Nothing repeats, not even within one facade. Segmental and half round heads on the Italianate blocks, pronounced stone surrounds on the Classical Revival and Beaux-Arts work, and tall narrow upper floor openings with heads well above 80 inches all show up on the same street. A three point measure on width and height is the floor here, and head shape gets recorded separately, because a shaped panel or an arch mounted rod is a different order line from a rectangle.

What we specify for a building on the Danville square

A building on the square is really two jobs: a public display level that sells with light, and upper floors that are offices or apartments and need privacy after dark. We price them separately. National ranges are the only honest pricing here, because no published window treatment pricing exists for Danville. Custom treatments run $250 to $2,600 per window, shutters $175 to $800, and retractable awnings $1,000 to $6,000 installed. Lead time on custom fabrication is 2 to 5 weeks. The Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act (IC 24-5-11) requires a written contract stating the scope, the dates and the total price on residential work over $150, and we're insured and insured.

Around the courthouse square

The square has been the center of Danville's street grid since the plat was recorded in October 1824. Main Street through it is US 36, which runs 20 miles east to downtown Indianapolis, so the district takes highway traffic around a four sided commercial ring rather than down a single face. Washington Street, Marion Street and Jefferson Street complete that ring, and Cross Street carries the north south movement. The Hendricks County Courthouse and its lawn sit in the middle, the Hendricks County Jail and Sheriff's Residence carries its own National Register listing, and Mayberry Cafe is the square's best known storefront address. Elementary assignment is by address between North Elementary and South Elementary.

Design review on the Danville square: what the 2010 listing actually requires

Nothing, on current evidence. Indiana Landmarks states it plainly: owners 'can modify their historic properties as they wish, even if they are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, unless they are using federal or state money.' Restriction comes from a local ordinance administered by a local preservation commission, and no Danville commission holding Certificate of Appropriateness authority was found. There's a caveat we'd rather state than hide. The town's own website returned an HTTP 403 and couldn't be read, so this is an unconfirmed absence and not a proven one. Before an exterior awning goes onto a building in the Courthouse Square Historic District, confirm it with the town directly.

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