Garfield Terrace Apartments- 1112 Finley Avenue

Year Built: 1923

Architecture Style: Colonial Revival

Key Features:

• Brick Construction
• Wide Porch for Each Townhome
• Simple, Symmetrical Design

The Garfield Terrace Apartment Town Homes, built in 1923, are still well-maintained and popular today with access to the Park, IndyGo buses and the Red Line to Greenwood south and north to Fountain Square and downtown.

North on Shelby, we would see Firehouse #29, built in 1900 when horse-drawn fire pumpers fought fires in the area, now used as a storage facility. Suding Hardware, opened in 1935, is the last original family-owned business on Shelby St. and is the haunt of the owners of old houses all over town because of its huge inventory and old home knowledge. Sadly, in the 1950s there were thirty-three businesses located in and around the intersection of Shelby and Raymond Streets, thirty-one of them locally-owned. But the widening of Raymond St. in the early 1960s and soon after that the bisecting of the neighborhood by I-65 destroyed both the character and the business corridor of the neighborhood.

A new micro-brewery will be opening soon at the site of an old service station and a new bicycle sales and repair shop has opened, also serving coffee and sandwiches, providing small steps toward recovery of the business community.