Hydrangea House - 3064 North Delaware Street

Year Built: Circa 1908

Architectural Style: Arts and Crafts Bungalow

- Key Features:

• Embracing Porch
• Wood Heavy in Construction
• Exposed Roof Beams

This is one of four Meridian Park homes attributed to local architect Clarence Martindale, and one of only a few bungalows in the neighborhood. It’s affectionately known as the “Hydrangea House” for the 15 species of hydrangeas that inhabit the grounds. The two and one-half story house contains numerous Arts and Crafts bungalow elements such as the steeply pitched gable roof which extends over the porch, the gabled dormer with overhanging eaves supported by knee braces, and banded casement windows. This home was one of three Meridian Park houses featured in a 1909 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal recognizing 14 newly added homes in Indianapolis .

By 1900, the bungalow craze, which had already been popular in the Eastern US and California since the 1890s, finally reached Indiana. Bungalows are easily identified by their simple massing and usually modest scale. Bungalows are typically one to one-and-a-half stories tall and feature low pitched gable roofs. Often, a front porch is recessed under the main roof. Roofs have deep eaves.