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Emerson Heights Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
10000125

Year built
  
1910

Area
  
58 ha

Added to NRHP
  
31 March 2010

Emerson Heights Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Emerson Ave., Linwood Ave., E. 10th and E. Michigan Sts., Indianapolis, Indiana

Built by
  
Sears, Roebuck & Co.; et al.

Architectural style
  
Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Bungalow/craftsman

MPS
  
Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830-1960 MPS

Emerson Heights Historic District, also known as Emerson Heights Addition and Chas. M. Cross Trust Clifford Avenue Addition, is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. The district encompasses 1,000 contributing buildings and 9 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Indianapolis. They include 659 houses, 334 garages, 7 commercial buildings, and 9 objects. It was developed between about 1910 and 1940, and includes representative examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. The houses are characteristically of frame construction with brick front porches, with some brick dwellings.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

References

Emerson Heights Historic District Wikipedia