Window Treatment in Original McCordsville (the 1865 town plat) and Nearby McCordsville Streets

Local Window Treatment Experience in Original McCordsville (the 1865 town plat)

Original McCordsville housing: an 1890s frame house, a 1960s ranch and a recent rebuild on one block

Hancock County's assessor data comes through Beacon and a GeoPower atlas, neither of which exposes a queryable parcel endpoint, so there is no published home count, lot dimension or price band for the 1865 plat. What is sourced is the era. The ACS records 332 pre-1940 units townwide and 277 more from 1940 to 1979, and that second slice is oddly shaped: zero units from the 1940s, 37 from the 1950s, 218 from the 1960s and only 22 from the 1970s. The 1960s spike is the roadside and infill housing you can see from Broadway rather than any subdivision. The rest of the block face is late-19th century vernacular frame and gable front and wing farmhouse, with Craftsman bungalows filling in behind.

Lots are narrow and deep on the original grid, so houses sit close to the street with the long elevation to the side. Every McCordsville subdivision platted after 1995 has the opposite geometry, and it matters more than it sounds. A side bedroom on Center Street looks straight into a neighbor's side windows twenty feet away, which moves the privacy decision to the front of the conversation instead of the end of it. Ceiling heights vary house to house. Header heights vary inside a single house. Storm window build ups sit at the interior face of a good number of these openings and quietly take an inch or more of mounting depth, and they're the easiest thing on the 1865 plat to miss on a fast measure.

Measuring on the 1865 plat: 12 to 20 openings, few of them alike

Count on 12 to 20 openings in a house on Broadway or McCord Street once the basement level is included, and expect very few of them to share a size. Small rooms with many openings is the period pattern, and it's the opposite of the 18 to 28 openings in a 2,200 to 3,200 square foot production two story out in the subdivisions, where the same unit repeats six times. Depth is the first thing we check here rather than the last. Wood jambs with narrow flat or molded casing read as generous until the storm build up behind the trim turns up. Lutron publishes a standard factory deduction of 1/16 inch per side on an inside mount, so a finished width comes back 1/8 inch under the opening you measured.

Squareness is the honest headline. These houses carry a hundred and sixty years of settlement on Hancock County clay, and a level laid on a Depot Street window head will show it. On an opening already 3/8 inch out of parallel, that factory deduction and the taper land on the same side and you see the result. Shapes stay simple: an occasional transom over a front door and the odd attic gable opening, with no two story foyer glass and no half round heads, because that vocabulary arrived in McCordsville with the 2000s subdivisions. Exposure follows the section grid, streets running roughly north to south and east to west, so fronts and backs face broadly north or south while gable ends take the west sun.

What we specify on Broadway, Main and Depot Street

Nothing reviews an exterior decision on the 1865 plat. Hancock County's National Register listings are all in Greenfield, Fortville, Shirley and the rural townships, McCordsville has no locally designated historic district, and there's no association on the original plat, so a homeowner on McCord Street answers to nobody about color or appearance from the street. That freedom is genuine, and it also removes the usual excuse for a compromise that looks wrong. What actually constrains the specification here is fit: openings out of square, depth you can't assume, and 12 to 20 openings that don't repeat. Under Indiana's Home Improvement Contract Act, IC 24-5-11, anything over $150 gets a written contract with the scope and total price before we order, and custom fabrication runs 2 to 5 weeks. We're insured and insured.

Around the 1865 plat

The plat sits on SR 67, Pendleton Pike, at Broadway and CR 600W, immediately southwest of McCord Square. Residents here say they live in town as against out in the subdivisions, and since 2022 that has come to mean something practical: the old blocks are now walking distance from an IU Health clinic and a restaurant row that didn't exist five years ago. Depot Street and Railroad Street are named for the former Pennsylvania Railroad corridor that runs behind them. Town Hall Community Park is the other fixed point on the plat. Children here attend McCordsville Elementary and feed into Mt. Vernon Middle School.

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