Window Treatment in Cicero Original (the original town plat) and the 19th century additions - Cole and Jones, John Harrison, Peter Case, Dunhams, Flanagan's, Morton, Deakyne's, Van Buskirk, Jones and Coles, Cicero, IN

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Cicero Original and the 19th century additions: 239 houses recorded before 1950

There's no single build era here, because each lot went up when its owner built it. The assessor records 239 parcels inside Cicero corporate limits with a construction year before 1950, and across the whole 46034 postcode there are 120 distinct construction years going back to 1806. Only six parcels carry the exact subdivision name CICERO ORIGINAL. The rest of the historic core is filed under the 19th century addition names, and the list runs past the ones in the heading to Inman, Molehan's and Old Block 3. Styles range from late-19th century vernacular and folk Victorian through American Foursquare and Craftsman bungalow, with post war minimal traditional infill on whatever lots were left.

The story mix is the surprise. Counted across those 239 pre-1950 parcels, 141 are recorded at 1.0 story and only 31 at 2.0, so this is a single story town center rather than a district of tall Victorians. Lots are narrow 19th century town lots on a compact rectilinear grid, and deeded acreage wasn't pulled separately for these plats, so we don't quote one. There's no isolated price band either. Town wide assessed values on older Cicero stock run well below the reservoir subdivisions, and the closest published comparison is Hidden Bay, the town's other pre-1980 fabric, at $16,000 to $269,500 gross assessed. Floor area gets measured on site.

Why an inside mount usually fails on Jackson Street

Start with depth, because in these blocks depth decides the product. Original casing profiles sit proud of a shallow return, or of no return at all, and where a storm window has been added on top you lose what little depth was there. A roller cassette needs its mounting bracket to land on something deep enough and flat enough to hold it, and on a 1905 opening it frequently doesn't. The usual answer is an outside mount to the casing face. That costs nothing in performance and gains something real, because an outside mounted shade overlaps the opening instead of leaving the 3/4 inch per side light gap Lutron publishes for an inside mount Roller 20/64. We say that before the order rather than after the install.

Then squareness. These houses have stood on wood framing for 90 to 130 years, and racking shows up as head to sill variation you can read with a level. We take three points across the width and three up the height, and a hard treatment gets built to the smallest of them, which is exactly where a visible taper against the trim comes from. The shapes are 19th century rather than builder catalog: tall narrow openings with high sills, front porch window banks, door and window transoms, occasional leaded or colored glass, bay projections on the Victorian houses, and arched or half round attic openings. Nothing in this fabric is a modern great room, so there's no two story wall of glass to solve. There is a lot of trim worth keeping visible.

What we specify in the Cicero village core

There's no package for a district with 120 distinct construction years behind it. What does hold across all 239 pre-1950 houses is that mounting depth is short, openings have moved, and there's original trim people want to keep looking at. So the specification leans on outside mount and on frames that are square in themselves. National pricing runs $250 to $2,600 per window on custom treatments, $175 to $800 per window on shutters and $300 to $4,000 per window on drapery, and custom fabrication takes 2 to 5 weeks. We're insured and insured. Indiana's Home Improvement Contract Act, IC 24-5-11, requires a written contract with a detailed scope and a total price on residential work over $150, and you'll have one before anything is ordered.

Jackson Street, Red Bridge Park and Hamilton Heights

The historic core sits on a compact grid on and around Jackson Street, which carries State Road 19 through town, with the village business block at its center. Red Bridge Park and the Cicero Christkindlmarkt are at the north end, Morse Reservoir is beyond them, and the reservoir plats start immediately south and west. The street names in these blocks are Jackson, Main, Broadway, Buckeye, Brinton, Cass, Pearl and Byron. Schooling is Hamilton Heights School Corporation, which runs one elementary school and one middle school for the entire town before Hamilton Heights High School, so unlike Carmel Clay or Hamilton Southeastern there's no attendance boundary question at any Cicero address.

Window Treatment Services in Cicero Original (the original town plat) and the 19th century additions - Cole and Jones, John Harrison, Peter Case, Dunhams, Flanagan's, Morton, Deakyne's, Van Buskirk, Jones and Coles

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Cicero Original (the original town plat) and the 19th century additions - Cole and Jones, John Harrison, Peter Case, Dunhams, Flanagan's, Morton, Deakyne's, Van Buskirk, Jones and Coles Window Treatment FAQ

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