Danville Main Street Historic District Window Treatment, Danville, IN

Local Window Treatment Experience in Danville Main Street Historic District

Six architectural styles, 37 contributing structures, no two alike

The district is predominantly two story, with the Craftsman bungalows adding a one and a-half story component at the later end of the range. Lot sizes aren't separately published, though the pattern is the deep town lot with a substantial street setback you'd expect on an 1844 to 1920 county seat main street, and we've flagged that as inference rather than fact. No separate price band exists for the district either. Danville's town wide median sale price is $360,000 as of 2026. What is firmly sourced is the count and the range: 37 contributing structures, roughly 1844 to 1920, listed on the National Register in 1994.

House sizes here aren't published at parcel level and Hendricks County's parcel GIS isn't reachable, so we don't quote square footage. We count openings on site instead. What the styles tell you matters more anyway. Greek Revival brings door transoms and sidelights, Gothic Revival brings pointed and segmental heads, Italianate brings tall narrow openings with heads well above 80 inches, Queen Anne brings bays and turned post porches, and the Craftsman bungalows bring wide banded groupings under broad eaves. Palladian and half round openings show up on the higher style houses. Six vocabularies of opening inside 37 buildings, and the district's whole measuring problem follows from that.

Where the depth goes in an 1844 to 1920 house

Start with depth, because it decides more than style does. These are real wood jambs with applied casing, and many carry counterweight pockets that consume the inside mount depth you thought you had. Where a storm panel has been added over the original frame, and that's common on this stock, usable depth drops again. It is the opposite of the drywall returns that make up 61.2 percent of Danville's housing units. So we measure at the stop rather than at the casing face, at every opening, and we tell you before the order which rooms take a flush inside mount and which need an outside mount or a shallower headrail.

Then squareness. The houses in this district are between 106 and 182 years old, and that much movement shows up as head to sill variation you can see with a level. Assume out of square, assume the head and the sill differ, assume nothing repeats even in one room. Three point measure is the floor here, not the exception. It has a visible consequence we'd rather disclose now: a hard treatment built to the smallest of three measurements can leave a taper against the trim on the wide side. A shutter frame absorbs that. An L-frame is square in itself and the shim gap disappears behind it, which is why shutters get specified so often on West Main.

What we specify in the Main Street district

Nothing about this district rewards a package quote. Six architectural styles across 37 contributing structures means the Greek Revival at one end and the Craftsman bungalow at the other need different answers, and the settled openings push hard toward products that carry their own frame. National price ranges are what we can quote honestly, since no local pricing is published for Danville: shutters $175 to $800 per window, custom drapery $300 to $4,000, other custom treatments $250 to $2,600. Fabrication runs 2 to 5 weeks. Under the Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act (IC 24-5-11) anything over $150 gets a written contract with a detailed scope and a total price, and we carry insurance and a bond.

Streets and landmarks in the Main Street district

The district runs west from the courthouse square along Main Street, which is US 36, and residents locate themselves by the square rather than by a subdivision name. North Wayne Street and South Wayne Street cross it, as do Broadway Street and Jackson Street. The named houses are the district's landmarks and they carry dates: the J.W. Morgan House from 1868, the John Shirley House from 1885, the Scearce House from 1910 and the Harry Underwood House from 1914. Ellis Park and the Danville Public Library are the two anchors people use for directions. Schools run through Danville Community School Corporation, with North Elementary or South Elementary set by address, then Danville Middle School and Danville Community High School.

The 1994 listing and what it does not require

Being inside the Main Street Historic District doesn't put your window treatments in front of a review board, on the evidence available. Indiana Landmarks is direct about it: if you want to alter your property and you're using private funds, you can do whatever you like. The 1994 National Register listing recognizes 37 contributing structures. It doesn't administer them. Restriction would require a local ordinance and a local commission, and none was verified in Danville. One trap is worth naming here: there is no 'Danville Historic District' in Indiana. That name belongs to districts in Pennsylvania and Virginia, and searching for it hands you the wrong state's rules.

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